Conference program, Borders and Crossings, Aberystwyth (10-12 July 2017)
Monday July 10th – Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Penbryn Building, Medrus Suites
11:00-13:00 Registration and Light lunch (Medrus Main)
12:30-13:00 Welcome by Professor Tim Woods, Director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities; housekeeping announcements (Medrus Main)
13:00-14:30 Panels 1-2
Panel 1: Iberia (chair: Angel Tuninetti, University of West Virginia) – Medrus 3
Gryspeerdt, Juliet (University of Nottingham), ‘The forgotten ‘Orient’ in the writing of travellers to Portugal
Drace-Francis, Alex (University of Amsterdam): ‘Recycling Romantic Spain: A Romanian traveller’s Spanish notebook and the “lens of prior reading”’
Wood, Jennifer (Aberystwyth University): ‘Laurie Lee’s A Rose for Winter (1955): A Travelogue to the Disenfranchised’
Panel 2: Creative Frontiers (chair Neal Alexander, Aberystwyth University) – Medrus 4
Lindh, Ilona (University of Helsinki): ‘From travelling to narration: non-fictional travelogues by Antti Tuuri’
Croft, Joanna (LJMU): ‘Swimming and Dreaming were Becoming Indistinguishable”(Deakin): Being Elsewhere in The Chassezac River’
Hannigan, Tim (University of Leicester): ‘Travel writing on the creative-critical frontier: criticising practice, actioning criticism’
14.30-15.00 Coffee break (Medrus Main)
15:00-16:30: Panels 3 and 4
Panel 3: Poland and Polish Travel Literature (chair Julia Szołtysek, University of Silesia) – Medrus 3
Moroz, Grzegorz (University of Bialystok): ‘Key Differences and Similarities Between Anglophone and Polish Travel Writing: A Generic Perspective’
Oźarska, Magdalena (Jan Kochanowski University Kielce): ‘Documenting 19th-century Italian Tours: the cases of Mary Shelley and Łucja Rautenstarchowa’
Białas, Zbigniew (University of Silesia Katowice): ‘In Grajewo – Rita Sackville-West reporting on a Polish revolution’
Panel 4: Writing Domestic Travel (chair Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales CAWCS) – Medrus 4
Byrne, Angela (Ulster University): ‘Wales Coded and Decoded in John Lee’s Walking Tour, August 1806’
Kinsley, Zoe (Liverpool Hope): ‘“Chained to this horrid rock”: Richard Ayton and William Daniell, and the Lonely Lives of Lighthousemen’
Ian Fookes (University of Auckland), ‘Cartes Postales by Chantal Spitz: Disrupting the casual pursuit of myth in French Polynesia’
Break, walk/transport down to Old College
17:30 (Old College – Seddon Room) Plenary 1: Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales CAWCS): ‘Shipwrecked Monkeys: Coasts, Trade and Travel in Romantic-era Wales’
Drinks reception in the Quad, exhibition visit.
Dinner by individual arrangements – choice of venues in town.
Tuesday July 11th – Penglais, Medrus Suites
9:30-11 Panels 5 and 6
Panel 5: Addressing Exoticism (chair Ian Fookes, University of Auckland) – Medrus 3
Budasz, Sarah (University of Durham): ‘”Un pays retrouvé”: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Flaubert’s Travel to the Orient’
Tuninetti, Angel T. (University of West Virginia), ‘Challenging Stereotypes: South America in Negley Farson’s Transgressor in the Tropics’
Basilone, Linetto (University of Auckland), ‘Italian Travel Narratives on Twentieth Century China: Alterity, Distance and Self-Identification’
Panel 6: Early Modern Mentalities 1 (chair Betty Hagglund, Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre) – Medrus 4
Szwach, Agnieszka (Jan Kochanowski University Kielce) : ‘English Travellers in Poland of 16th and 17th century’
Maczelka, Csaba (University of Pécs): ‘The uses of Travel and Utopia in early modern Transylvania’
Coward, Adam (independent scholar): ‘The Influence of Itinerant Preaching on Edmund Jones’s Relation of Apparitions of Spirits’
11-11.30 Coffee Break (Medrus Main)
11:30-12 :30 Panels 7 and 8
Panel 7: Inventing Tourism (chair Anna-Leena Toivanen, Université de Liège) – Medrus 3
Urosevic, Natasa (University of Pula) : ‘Creating Mediterranean Paradise on the Imperial Riviera : Media representations of the Adriatic in the first travel magazines’
Forsdick, Charles (University of Liverpool): ‘Voyage autour du monde avec Jojo et Louisette: ephemera, postcolonial journeys and the afterlives of empire’
Panel 8: Around Hester Piozzi (chair Ludmilla Kostova, University of Veliko Trnovo) – Medrus 4
Edwards, Elizabeth (University of Wales CAWCS): ‘”Mixing Misery … with Magnificence”: Hester Piozzi’s home tourism’
Morganella, Tina (University of Adelaide): ‘Me, myself and the Other – Self-reflexivity in the travel writing of Hester Thrale Piozzi and Jan Morris’
12.30-13.30 Lunch (Medrus Main)
13:30-14:30 Panels 9 and 10
Panel 9: Extra-European Travellers (chair Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool) – Medrus 3
Toivanen, Anna-Leena (Université de Liège): ‘African Travellers and Tourism in Europe: Bernard Dadié’s La ville où nul ne meurt (Rome) (1968) and Pap Khouma’s I Was an Elephant Salesman (1990/2010)’
Ozawa, Shizen (Tamkang University Taiwan): ‘After crossing borders. On M. G. Vassanji’s No New Land’
Panel 10: Wales and Bretagne (chair Mary-Ann Constantine, University of Wales CAWCS) – Medrus 4
Williams, Heather (University of Wales CAWCS): ‘Travel writing as a lens on Wales/Brittany cultural exchanges’
Jones, Kathryn N. (Swansea University): ‘For Brittany, see Wales: Breton travellers’ visions and views of Wales, 1946-2014’
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break (Medrus Main)
15:00-16.30 Panels 11 and 12
Panel 11: Women’s Writing Examined (chair Kathryn Walchester, Liverpool John Moores) – Medrus 3
Hagglund, Betty (Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre): ‘Female authors, male editors: the shaping of a seventeenth-century travel text’
Lidström, Carina (Örebro University): ‘Ulterior Motives: A Discussion of Three Swedish 19th-Century Women’s Travelogues’
Szołtysek, Julia (University of Silesia): ‘Between ‘the me that leaves and the me that returns’: Gertrude Bell’s Persian Gateways and Walls’
Panel 12: Politicians on the Road (chair Magdalena Ozarska, Jan Kochanowski University Kielce) – Medrus 4
Gelléri, Gabor (Aberystwyth): The Diplomat and the Art of Travel: ‘ars prudentia’ in the 18th century
Kostova, Ludmilla (Veliko Trnovo), ‘Celebrity travel with a political slant: the destinies of nations and empires through the eyes of Lord and Lady Strangford’
Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit (Aberystwyth): ‘”Going to see for oneself”: the “situation on the ground” and the question of authenticity in politicians’ travel’
Short break, move to Hugh Owen building
16:45-18:00 Creative Arts Talk (Hugh Owen Building A14)
Caryn Louise Leschen (University of San Francisco): ‘Panel Borders: Travel Stories as Comics and Graphic Novels’
18:30-19:30 Concert: Three-leggd Mare (Arts Centre Bar)
transport/walk into town
20:00 Conference Dinner – Medina Restaurant
Wednesday 12th (Old College)
9:30-10:30 Panels 13 and 14
Panel 13: In the Mountains (chair Angela Byrne, University of Ulster) – Seddon Room
Singer, Rita (Bangor University): ‘“Weather very hazy’: notes from the Snowdon visitors’ book”
Westaway, Jonathan (University of Central Lancashire): ‘Prisoners of the hills: mountaineering narratives by prisoners of war and interned enemy aliens from World War Two’
Panel 14: Early Modern Mentalities 2 (chair Csaba Maczelka, University of Pécs) – Council Chamber
Coneys, Matthew (Institute of Modern Languages Research – University of London), ‘Imitation Travel Accounts and the Development of Travel Writing in Italy, c.1400-c.1550’
Hanczakowski, Michal (Palacky University): ‘Between evidentia and ekphrasis. Rhetorical framework of early modern travel writing’
10:30-11 Coffee Break (Quad)
11:00-12:00 Panel 15 – Class privilege? (chair Zoe Kinsley, Liverpool Hope) – Seddon Room
Walchester, Kathryn (LJMU): ‘Travelling and class ‘“Among those fine mountains,”: Helen Maria Williams and an exiled Femme de Chambre’
Nicolson, Donald J. (independent scholar): ‘Travel and the academic conference’
12-12.15 Short Break
12:15-13:30 Plenary 2: Wendy Bracewell (University College London) – ‘Answering back, East & West: travellers & travellees in the 18th century’ – Seddon Room
13.30 Light lunch (Quad) and farewell
Borders and Crossings Travel Writing Conference 2017 