School of Education
Date: Wednesday 22 November 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Zoom
Category: Conferences, Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Prof Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool), Prof Richard Gwyn (Cardiff University), Dr Esa Aldegheri (University Glasgow), Dr Sophie Buchaillard

This conference, scheduled deliberately on International tourism Day (27 September), but rescheduled due to industrial action by the UCU, brings together travel writers and scholars of migration to explore new perspectives on the hierarchies that define whose journeys matter and whose stories get heard. Travel writing as a genre has long been associated with colonial approaches to other lands and people, and this is mirrored in the type of stories and authors that have been published. In the UK, the definition of the genre has only recently been opened up to questions. In a post-colonial, post-Brexit, post-COVID world which is increasingly defined by movements caused by the climate crisis, this conference is an opportunity to adopt a multi-disciplinary perspective to reflect on who gets to write about travel and in which form; who gets to hear these stories; and to find new ways of thinking about telling stories of humans moving in the world.

PROGRAMME

Programme booklet with biographies and abstracts: https://bit.ly/NPProgramme

Keynote:

  • Professor Charles Forsdick, FBA James Barrow Professor of French (Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, University of Liverpool)

Confirmed speakers:

  • Professor Richard Gwyn (Cardiff University)
  • Dr Esa Aldegheri (University Glasgow)
  • Dr Sophie Buchaillard (Cardiff University)
  • Alexandros Plasatis and Dr Maria Rovisco
  • Katherine MacKinnon (University of Glasgow)
  • Eric Ngalle Charles (King’s College London)
  • Dr Kathryn Jones, (European Travellers to Wales Project - Swansea University)
  • Cristina Navazo-Eguian Newton (Cardiff University)

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