Writing the Journey: June 1999 | Department of English

-Conference Sessions-

Thursday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.

OPEN MICROPHONE: READINGS OF ORIGINAL TRAVEL WRITING, Chestnut Room

Beatriz Badikian, Susan Blake, Kent Dixon, Robert Garlitz, Rachel Holmes, Shelley Salamensky

Friday, June 11, 9-10:30

1. WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN WEST, Chestnut Room
2. EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND, Center I

3. VARIETIES OF AMERICAN INNOCENCE ABROAD, Center II

4. ENGLAND IN THE EYE OF THE TRAVELER, University I

Friday, June 11, 11-12:30

5. WOMEN TRAVELERS IN INDIA, University II
6. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN VIEWS OF MEXICO, Chestnut Room

7. (POST)COLONIAL, (POST)MODERN, (POST)NATIONAL, Center I

8. AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES (1) , Center II

Friday, June 11, 2:00-3:30

9. AMERICA FROM THE ROAD, Chestnut Room
10. TRAVELERS AND ETHNOGRAPHERS, University I

11. KEROUAC REVISITED, Center I

12. THE JOURNEYS OF THUBRON AND RABAN, Center II

13. AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES (2), University II

Friday, June 11, 4-5 pm

14. KEYNOTE ADDRESS:, Palmaire V
Colin Thubron
"The Travel Writer Today: A Figure in the Landscape"

Friday, June 11, 5:45-7:00

RECEPTION Georgian Suite

Friday, June 11, 8:30

READING: In Siberia (forthcoming) Colin Thubron, Palmaire V

Saturday, June 12, 9-10:30

15. DISPLACEMENT AND ANXIETY IN 20TH CENTURY BRITISH TRAVEL WRITING, Chestnut Room
16. FOREIGN TRAVELERS IN "OLD" AMERICA, Center I

17. TOURS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, THEN AND NOW, Center II

18. WOMEN ON THE EDGE, University I

19. DESERT PLACES, University II

20. VICTORIAN ADVENTURERS, Palmaire V

Saturday, June 12, 11-12:30

21. HOME IN AMERICA, Chestnut Room
22. VARIETIES OF TRAVEL GUIDES, Center I

23. WHITE WOMEN IN AFRICA, Center II

24. THE TRAVEL WRITING OF BRUCE CHATWIN, University I

25. NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN TRAVELERS, University II

26. NATURE AND THE TRAVEL WRITER, Palmaire 3

Saturday, June 12, 2:00-3:30

27. WOMEN TRAVELERS: GENDER, NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY, Chestnut
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28. WILDE, LAWRENCE, STRACHEY AND FRIENDS, Center I
29. POST(WAR), POST(IMPERIAL), POST (TRAVEL) , Center II

30. WRITING THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE FEMALE GOTHIC, University I

31. IMAGINATIVE PROJECTIONS ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN, University II

32. PSYCHIC TERRAIN: NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Palmaire 3

Saturday, June 12, 4:00-5:30

33. TRAVELERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST: GENDER IDENTITIES, Chestnut
34. PANEL: TRAVEL WRITERS TALK ABOUT THE TRADE, Center I and II

35. PANEL: THE PEACE CORPS, TRAVEL AND WRITING, University I and II

Saturday, June 12 7:00

DINNER:, Palmaire I and II
Guest of Honor: Paul Fussell
Professor Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 12 8:30

36. Jonathan Maslow, "Adventurer for Hire: Travel Writing, Money and the Art of Interesting Impoverishment," Palmaire 1 and 2

Sunday, June 13, 9-10:30

37. TEACHING AND TRAVEL, Chestnut Room
38. BODIES AND SPACES, Center I

Sunday, June 13, 11-12:30

39. SOPHISTICATED TRAVELERS: HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON, Center I
40. "BAD" TRIPS, Center II

41. OPEN SESSION: THE FUTURE OF OUR TRAVEL WRITING CONFERENCE, Chestnut

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