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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:20:40
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Subject: Pathologies of Travel (Forward)
Oxford Brookes University: Humanities Research Centre
PATHOLOGIES OF TRAVEL
Saturday 26th October 1996
A one day conference which will bring together researchers from History,
History of Art, History of Medicine, Historical and Cultural Geography, and
Literary Studies.
Cost 20 (twenty) pounds waged; 12(twelve) pounds unwaged and students.
Travel has been represented as a blessing and a curse, as improving and
wasteful: if the speed and ease of modern travel bring undreamt of
opportunities for many, at the same time, the burgeoning transport
infrastructure brings forth the worst excesses of environmental degredation
and exploitation. Travel both demonstrates the health and strength of western
technological and social organisation, and symbolises its deepest maliases. To
view travel as evidence of a pathology is not, however, novel. Travel has long
been associated with personal and social ailments and their remedies. The act
of pilgrimage has carried the curative power of personal and national
salvation across cultures and time. Exploration has sought scientific, medical
and economic remedies for the social and technological ills of the western
world. Travel has been a metaphor for regeneration that is at once personal,
psychological and aesthetic. This conference provides an opportunity to bring
together social and cultural historians, and historians of science and
medicine around these issues.
Papers will include:
Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,
University Of Glasgow): 'Travel to Dissect Others: Scottish Surgeons Abroad
1740-1850'
Matthew Craske (Churchill College, Cambridge): 'A Severed Hand and
Standard: Tourism, Political Relics, and the Health of the Nation in
18th-Century Britain'
Chloe Chard: 'Lassitude and Revival in the Warm South: Therapeutic Travel
1750-1830
Harriet Deacon (Queens College, Oxford): 'Travelling to Health: The Image
of the Cape as a Health Resort in the 19th Century'
Tim Cresswell (Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter):
'Mobility, Democracy, and Syphilis: Pathologising the Hobo in 19th-Century
North America'
Russell West (School of European Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff):
'Sleepers Wake: Andre Gide and Disease in the Travels in the Congo'
Chris Thomas (Division of Geography, Staffordshire University): `Excursions
and Exclusions: the democratization of the seaside resort'
Conference Convenors: Richard Wrigley (History of Art), George Revill
(Geography)
For enquiries and registration please contact:
Catriona Smith
School of Humanities
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane Campus
Headington
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel: 01865 483570; fax: 01865 484082; Email: [log in to unmask]
Oxford Brookes University Humanities Research Centre in collaboration with the
Humanities MA Programme.
George Revill
Geography Unit
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane, Headington
Oxford, OX3 OBP
Tel. 01865/483853
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