NARRATING SPACE AND PLACE: 



MEETING ACROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES



Trinity College, Oxford



April 7, 2005



9.30 am - 5.30 pm



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS



PROF. WESLEY KORT (DUKE UNIVERSITY) 



AND DR. JUDY GILES (YORK ST JOHN COLLEGE)  



This one-day, inter-disciplinary colloquium, supported by the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (Surrey) and the Centre for Travel Writing (Nottingham Trent), will focus on the differing ways in which observers construct space and place in different contexts and at different times. This year the colloquium will be led by Prof Wesley Kort (Duke University), who will develop themes from his recent book, Place and Space in Modern Fiction (Univ Press of Florida, 2004) and Dr Judy Giles, who co-edited Writing Englishness 1900-1950 (Routledge, 1995).



As in previous years contributors will explore this broad theme from such disciplines as English literature, history, geography, social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. The spaces and places will range from territories in which people live, to imaginary places existing in people's minds. 



Registration - by March 18



Fee - £18 (includes registration, coffee, tea and sandwiches)



Cheques - made out to Travel Writers Conference and sent to 



Prof John Eade



CRONEM, 07AP02, School of Arts



University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH



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David Crouch - The Tourist Encounter: Performance, Knowledge and Life Narratives 

Frank Eckardt - "Strategies to Forget, Strategies to Remember: The Imagination of 

        Berlin in Novels after the Fall of the Wall." 

Judy Giles - Writing Englishness  

Ian James - Ethnographic and Literary Representations of London’s East End 

Wesley Kort (Duke) - English Modern Novels and the Construction of 

Space and Place 

John McHugo - Walking Up and Down the Pyrenees 

Sean McLoughlin: Ethnographic and Literary Representations of Bradford 

Judith Oakley (Oxford Brookes) - Narrating Normandy 

Inga Scharf - Narrating Division and Fragmentation: An Analysis of Three (West) 

        German ‘Border Narratives’ 

Carl Thompson - Space and Place in Romantic-Era Shipwreck Literature 

Georgie Wemyss - ‘The World Has Been Empty Since The Romans’: Shifting 

        Representations of the Isle of Dogs 1990 and 2000.