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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

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The fee for attending the symposium is £10. Please make cheques payable to 
'Travel Writers' Conference'. Return this form and payment to: Dr Jonathan 
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