Abstracts
Monday, 14 September 2015
Panel 1a: Belgian Refugees in Wales |
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John Alban |
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Caterina Verdickt |
Belgian artists finding refuge in Wales during the Great War |
Rhian Davies |
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Panel 1b: Women Travellers |
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Alison Martin |
A Welsh "Assembly": Compilation and Adaptation in Priscilla Wakefield's Family Tour (1804) |
Kathryn Walchester |
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Silvia Pellicer-Ortín |
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Panel 2a: Iberian Travellers |
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David Miranda-Barreiro |
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Bárbara Álvarez Fernández |
Everything but the squeal: A portrait of present day Galicia |
Enrique Santos Unamuno |
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Panel 2b: Literary Travellers |
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Ruth Oldman |
The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
Amy L. Klemm |
Traversing Across Imagined Lands: Magic Realism and ‘Minority’ Culture |
Marija Bergam |
“A language of wet stones and mists”: A Caribbean Poet as Traveller through England and Wales |
Public Event: A Talk with Kirmen Uribe and Ned Thomas |
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Panel 3: Problematic Travellers |
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Gabor Gelleri |
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Arddun Arwyn |
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Panel 4a: Western Travellers
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Eimear Kennedy |
Complex Encounters: Irish-language travel writers and the cultural ‘other’ |
Julie Watt |
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Diana Luft |
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Panel 4b: Minorities of the Imaginary: The Culture of Travel Writing across Early Modern Scotland |
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Jessica Reid |
‘Folk’ celebration? Thomas St. Serfe’s ‘The Prince of Tartaria, his Voyage to Cowper in Fife’ |
Christopher McMillan |
A Discription, A Journey and a Prophecy: Scottophobia in English Literature, 1626-1763 |
Lorna McBean |
White Man Writing: Language of Colonisation in the writings of William Lithgow (1582-1645) |
Panel 5a: Purposeful Travellers |
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Marion Löffler |
German Scholars in Wales, c.1840–c.1880: Friedrich Carl Meyer |
Adam N. Coward |
Rambles and Studies of the United States Consul in South Wales |
Panel 5b: Travellers and Commodities |
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Gwyn Griffiths |
Yr Ymwelwydd Tymhorol o Lydaw [This paper will be presented in Welsh] |
Anna-Lou Dijkstra |
‘Guidebook Gazes’: Wales Through Dutch, German and French Eyes, 1990-2010 |
Melinda Szarvas, |
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Keynote Lecture by Prof Michael Cronin: ‘Minority Reports: Travel, Language and the Politics of Microspection’
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Wednesday, 16 September 2015 |
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Ceredigion Museum: Exhibition 'EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750-2015' |
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Panel 6: Travellers and Materiality |
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Robert Lewis |
Welsh Language and Bilingual Provision in Tourism in Wales [This paper will be presented in Welsh] |
Jacqui Ansell |
Difference and Decorum: Addressing Dress in Published Travelogues |
Panel 7: Curious Travellers |
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Elizabeth Edwards |
‘[B]leak and desolate as anything I have seen in Scotland’: Mary Brunton on the home tour |
Mary-Ann Constantine |
‘To find out all its beauties, a man must travel on foot’: Catherine Hutton’s explorations of Wales |