Conference Time: 12th June 2025, 09:46:51pm CEST
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8:45am Registration and information desk - Dept. of Economics Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
10:30am KT1: Keynote Talk: Diego Saglia Location: Aula Boccanegra - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
12:00pm B1: Buffet Lunch Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
1:30pm PS1A: Religious and Theological Issues Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerie Mendelson PS1B: Adaptations & Afterlives 1 Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Silvana Colella PS1C: Reading Time Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Emily Harrington PS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Amalia COTOI PS1F: Time After Time: Queer Chronopolitics/Nineteenth Century American Forms Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Dana SEITLER
2:00pm Registration and information desk - Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
3:00pm PS2A: Detective Fiction, Time and Mental Speed Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Lindsey Chappell PS2B: Time and Optical Technologies Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Frank EMMETT PS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Nancy Henry PS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Julie WISE PS2E: Time, Discipline, Standardization Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Abigail Mann PS2F: Slow Research (Round Table) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Alexis Morgan Mitchell
4:30pm B2: Tea break Location: Catering area
5:00pm PS3A: Adaptations & Afterlives 2 Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerio Massimo De Angelis PS3B: Deep Time and Steam-Powered Speed Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Muireann O'CINNEIDE PS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Huw Edwardes-Evans PS3D: Acceleration and Fashion Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Leslee Thorne-Murphy PS3E: Deceleration across the Russian Empire Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: David HERMAN PS3F: The Pace of Evolution Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kate FLINT
8:45am Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am PS4A: Travel Fiction and Travel Writing (1) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Melissa JENKINS PS4B: Time and poetry Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Catherine ROBSON PS4C: Early Nineteenth-Century Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA PS4D: Resisting Acceleration Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ross Forman PS4E: Colonialism and acceleration? Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Justin Livingstone PS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Keren HAMMERSCHLAG
10:30am B3: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am PS5A: Travel in Fiction and Travel Writing (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Ross Forman PS5B: Critical Accelerations: Time and the Image Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Clare Jane PETTITT PS5C: Speeding up and slowing down Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN PS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Paola NARDI PS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ayşe Çelikkol PS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Emily Harrington
12:30pm B4: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm PS6A: Narrative Time, the Gothic and Its Uses Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni PS6B: Fast Horses Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: kristen guest PS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Rebecca STERN PS6E: Time travel Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Thomas Prasch PS6F: The Speed of Seriality Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Teresa L MANGUM
3:30pm B5: Tea Break Location: Catering area
4:00pm Via Garibaldi with Historical References Location: atrium of the Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo (Via Balbi, 2) From Conference Venue to Palazzo Ducale: accompanied walk Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10) Genoa Heritage Shopping – A Journey Through Timeless Shops and Artisan Traditions Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)
6:15pm KT2: INCS Prize Proclamation and Keynote Talk: Clare Pettitt Location: Palazzo Ducale
8:00pm CF: Conference Dinner Location: Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale
8:45am Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am PS7A: Speeding Toward Authorship: Jewish Perspectives on Ethnicity and Opportunity Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Linda HUGHES PS7B: Accelerating Colonizations: Time, Space, Consumption in the Arctic Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Patricia PULHAM PS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Jessica Elizabeth Gossling PS7D: Tolstoy Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara DICKINSON PS7E: Exhibitions, Museums, Libraries, Postal Media and Time Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Anne HELMREICH PS7F: Slowing Down Time: Embodied and Generational Resistances to Speed and Acceleration (ROUND TABLE) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Discussants: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University); Jessica Howell (Texas A&M University); Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa); Narin Hassan (Georgia Tech)
10:30am B6: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am PS8B: Accelerated Colonisations (2): Time, Space, Consumption in Museology, Sustainability and Imperialism Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mariaconcetta Costantini PS8C: Ethics and Aesthetics Astride the 19th and 20th Centuries Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Pamela GILBERT PS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Jessica VALDEZ PS8E: Time and the City Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Laura COLOMBINO PS8F: Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary Michael Field Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kristin Mahoney
12:30pm B7: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm PS9A: Writing and Technology at the Fin-de-Siècle Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Luisa Villa PS9B: Time and Generational Issues in Victorian Fiction Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni PS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1) Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA PS9E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (1) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Nicholas WOLTERS
3:30pm PS10A: Acceleration on Stage (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Kirsten Andersen PS10B: Acceleration and Transforming Genres/Discursive Practices Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Keri YOUSIF PS10C: Against the Clock: Location and Locomotion in the 19th century Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan PS10E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (2) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara Muñoz-Muriana
5:00pm B8: Farewell cocktail Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
