CALL FOR PAPERS
Borders and Crossings/Seuils et traverses: 12th Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing
21-23 July 2015
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
The ‘Borders and Crossings’/’Seuils et traverses’ conference returns to Northern Ireland for the first time since the inaugural event in Derry in 1998. Contributions considering past and future developments in research on travel writing – and reflecting on the evolution of the field since the first Borders and Crossings conference – are particularly welcome. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Margaret Topping (m.topping@qub.ac.uk) by 30 January 2015. Papers are welcome in both English and French.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
New directions in travel writing research
Teaching travel writing
Dark tourism/phoenix tourism
Travel to/from Ireland
Writing travel and/in minoritised languages
Virtual travel
Utopian/dystopian journeys
Travel(s) in translation
Borders and checkpoints
Sensual geographies
Intermediality
The ethics of representation
Pilgrimage
Travel and ecology