I would like to let colleagues know about the
forthcoming conference in London:
All Welcome
Friday 3 December
TRAVEL WRITING OF THE 1930S IN FRANCE, ITALY AND
SPAIN
Venue: Institute of Romance studies, 3rd floor,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Programme:
08.45 Registration
09.15 Space, sex and the traveller
Naomi Segal (University of Reading) 'Gide in Egypt
1938'
Derek Duncan (Bristol) 'Celibate Landscapes:
travelling in Mussolini's Italy'
Sarah Wright (Hull) 'Dramatic Encounters: Federico
Garcia Lorca's trip to Cuba (1930)'
11.30 Political Travel
Jo Labanyi (IRS and Birkbeck) 'The politics of the
everyday and the eternity of ruins: two women
photographers in Republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis
1933-7, Kati Horna 1937-8)
Nikki Cooper (Sussex) 'Travel-writing on French
Indochina in the 1930s'
Loredana Polexzzi (warwick) 'Aristocrats,
Geographers, and Reprters: Travelling through
'Italian Africa' in the 1930s.
14.00 Negotiating Identities
Charles Forsdick (Glasgow)
'Sa(l)vaging Exoticism: travelling towards the Other
in 1930s French Literature'
Winston Pertaub (stirling)
'Journeys to the heartland: the Viaje Intrahistorico'
Charles Burdett (Bristol)
'Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists in Greece and
Egypt'
16.00 Andrew Thacker (Ulster)
'Journey with Maps: Travelling theory, geography and
the syntax of space'
Round table discussion
17.30 End of conference
Charles Burdett
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