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Writing Journeys and Places:
Tourists, Pilgrims, Ethnographers
11-12 April 2003
Danson Room, Trinity College
Oxford University
Friday 11 April
1:00-2:00 Registration
2:00-3:30 Welcome and Key Note Speaker
Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University): 'Where are we going? Cross-border
approaches to travel writing'
3:30-4:00 Tea break
4:00-5:30 Session I
Simon Coleman (Durham University) & John Eade (University of Surrey
Roehampton): 'Reframing Pilgrimage: Person, Place and Text' Glenn Bowman
(University of Kent Canterbury): 'Between Anthropology and Literature:
Ritual Logics in 4th Century Pilgrimage Narrative'
6:00 Wine Reception and Dinner
Dinner is not included, but all participants are encouraged to join us at a
local restaurant and at the pub afterwards (venues to be arranged).
Saturday 12 April
9:00-10:30 Session II
Lynette Turner (Oxford Brookes University): 'Composing the traveller's
body' Carl Thompson (Trinity College, Oxford): 'Bathetic Authority and
Inflicted Knowledge: On the Rhetorical Function of Mistakes and Mishaps in
Travel and Travel Writing'
10:30-11:00 Tea break
11:00-12:30 Session III
Camille O'Reilly & John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton): 'Urban or
Remote: The Ideal of "Heroic Travel" in Anthropology and Independent
Travel' Jonathan Skinner (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford): 'Betwixt and
Between Disciplines: Ethnography and Travel Writing in Anthropology and
English Literature'
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session IV
Daniel Carey (University College, Galway): 'Travel, Geography, and the
Problem of Belief: Locke as a Reader of Travel Accounts' Elizabeth Edwards
(Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre, University of Oxford) on Travel
Photography (Title to be announced)
3:00-3:30 Tea break
3:30-5:00 Session V and Closing Remarks
Kate Teltscher (University of Surrey Roehampton): Fieldwork as travel text:
Laura Roychowdhury's "The Jadu House"'
Zoë Kinsley (University of Manchester): Travellers and Tourists: Valid and
Invalid Travelling Practices, as Articulated in Dorothy Richardson's 'Tour
in the East Riding of Yorkshire &c 1801
Writing Journeys and Places:
Tourists, Pilgrims, Ethnographers
11-12 April 2003
Trinity College, Oxford University
Registration Form
Name:
Address:
E-mail address:
Institutional affiliation:
Research interests:
The fee for attending the symposium is £10. Please make cheques payable to
'Travel Writers' Conference'. Return this form and payment to: Dr Jonathan
Skinner 118 Churchway Rd Iffley Village Oxford OX4 4EG
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