CALL FOR PAPERS
Emotions and Ethics in Contemporary Women’s Travel Writing
The Institute of Modern Languages Research, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing
School of Advanced Study, University of London, 11 November 2016
This symposium will look at contemporary women’s travel texts, in their varied forms and genres (fictional and non-fictional) and in their interrelations with other arts and literary creativity (e.g. painting, photography, music, poetry etc.). The symposium’s aim is to explore and discuss how women engage with human, social and environmental issues in their telling of travel experiences (e.g. adventure, exploration, leisure and tourism, escape, pilgrimage, time and virtual travel); and how emotional, ethical, and spiritual pleas emerge from their recording of other people and places.
Some of the questions that the symposium will address are:
How do emotions affect women travellers’ moral judgments in their encounters with human, animal and other forms of life?
What role does writing (and its relation to other modes of representation) play in initiating and motivating travellers’ emotional impulses?
How are ethical implications expressed through specific forms of travel writing, such as journalism and ethnography?
How are the diverse ethical frameworks in the different traveller’s and travellee’s culture and context presented in the writing?
In what way do spaces and places elicit women to engage with ethical appeals and with the emotions of others?
Please send a 250-word abstract and short biography to [log in to unmask]
no later than 30 September 2016.
This workshop is organised by Giorgia Alù (University of Sydney) and Gill Rye (IMLR, University of London). Attendance free, but places are limited. Advance registration essential (please email [log in to unmask]). This event is supported by the University of London's Cassal Trust.
http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/emotion-and-ethics-contemporary-women-s-travel-writing
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