Abstracts

Monday, 14 September 2015

Panel 1a: Belgian Refugees in Wales

John Alban
University of East Anglia

Belgian Refugees and Swansea’s Belgian Community

Caterina Verdickt
Antwerp University

Belgian artists finding refuge in Wales during the Great War

Rhian Davies
Artistic Director,
Gregynog Festival

Soir héroïque: Belgian refugee musicians in Wales

Panel 1b: Women Travellers

Alison Martin
University of Reading

A Welsh "Assembly": Compilation and Adaptation in Priscilla Wakefield's Family Tour (1804)

Kathryn Walchester
Liverpool John Moores University

The Picturesque and the Beastly; Wales in the journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808)

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
University of Zaragoza

A Minority in Search of Identity: Travel Writing and the Representation of British-Jewish Women in Linda Grant’s The Cast Iron Shore and When I Lived in Modern Times

Panel 2a: Iberian Travellers

David Miranda-Barreiro
Bangor University

‘Everything Stays the Same’: Julio Camba Travelling Spain

Bárbara Álvarez Fernández
Universidade de Vigo

Everything but the squeal: A portrait of present day Galicia

Enrique Santos Unamuno
Universidad de Extremadura

Galician National Identity and Extraterritoriality in Diarios dun nómada (1993) by Xavier Queipo: a Geoliterary and Cartographic Approach

Panel 2b: Literary Travellers

Ruth Oldman
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Amy L. Klemm
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Traversing Across Imagined Lands: Magic Realism and ‘Minority’ Culture

Marija Bergam
University of Geneva

“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

Gabor Gelleri
Aberystwyth University

Exile meets minority: chevalier La Tocnaye’s "promenades"

Arddun Arwyn
Aberystwyth University

German Prisoners of War in Wales

Panel 4a: Western Travellers

Eimear Kennedy
Queen’s University Belfast

Complex Encounters: Irish-language travel writers and the cultural ‘other’

Julie Watt
Independent Scholar

Highlanders in West Africa

Diana Luft
Independent Scholar

Identity? Politics: William Griffith’s African Adventure

Panel 4b: Minorities of the Imaginary: The Culture of Travel Writing across Early Modern Scotland

Jessica Reid
University of Glasgow

‘Folk’ celebration? Thomas St. Serfe’s ‘The Prince of Tartaria, his Voyage to Cowper in Fife’

Christopher McMillan
University of Glasgow

A Discription, A Journey and a Prophecy: Scottophobia in English Literature, 1626-1763

Lorna McBean
University of Glasgow

White Man Writing: Language of Colonisation in the writings of William Lithgow (1582-1645)

Panel 5a: Purposeful Travellers

Marion Löffler
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

German Scholars in Wales, c.1840–c.1880: Friedrich Carl Meyer

Adam N. Coward
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

Rambles and Studies of the United States Consul in South Wales

Panel 5b: Travellers and Commodities

Gwyn Griffiths
Independent Scholar

Yr Ymwelwydd Tymhorol o Lydaw [This paper will be presented in Welsh]

Anna-Lou Dijkstra
Swansea University

‘Guidebook Gazes’: Wales Through Dutch, German and French Eyes, 1990-2010

Melinda Szarvas,
University of Jyväskylä

Immobile travel: The “postcard-literature” in Yugoslavia

Keynote Lecture by Prof Michael Cronin: ‘Minority Reports: Travel, Language and the Politics of Microspection’

 

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Ceredigion Museum: Exhibition 'EuroVisions: Wales through the Eyes of European Visitors, 1750-2015'

Panel 6: Travellers and Materiality

Robert Lewis
Tourism Research, Welsh Government

Welsh Language and Bilingual Provision in Tourism in Wales [This paper will be presented in Welsh]

Jacqui Ansell
Christie's Education

Difference and Decorum: Addressing Dress in Published Travelogues

Panel 7: Curious Travellers

Elizabeth Edwards
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

‘[B]leak and desolate as anything I have seen in Scotland’: Mary Brunton on the home tour

Mary-Ann Constantine
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

‘To find out all its beauties, a man must travel on foot’: Catherine Hutton’s explorations of Wales