Konferenzen, Tagungen

European travel writing in context: strategies of negotiating identity in travel writing – a comparative approach

Beginn
23.01.2020
Ende
24.01.2020

Conference organised as part of the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie project “European Travel Writing in Context. The Socio-Political Dimension of Travelogues 1760-1850”

Organisers: Sandra Vlasta & Winfried Eckel

Venue: Info-Box, Jakob-Welder-Weg, Campus of the Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz

 

Programme

 

Thursday, January 23, 2020


[10-12am workshop for students on hearing and sound in travel writing with Tim Youngs, venue: Info-Box]

 12am lunch at the Baron(restaurant on campus, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 3, close to conference venue Info-Box); all speakers welcome

 

1.30pm – 3.30pm

welcome and introduction Sandra Vlasta & Winfried Eckel

Romantic travel writing

Nikol Dziub (Mulhouse): Women Travellers in Germany: a Search for Identity through Gender

Anja Burghardt (Munich): Shaping a speaker? Voices in Polish romantic travel writing

Arne Mrotzek (Mainz): »…vom Schwindel ergriffen«. Bamboozling negotiations of identity, nature and philistines in Heinrich Heine’s ‘Harzreise’

 

3.30pm – 4.00pm coffee break


4.00pm – 5.00pm

Travel writing: translation and intertextuality

Alison Martin (Mainz): Renegotiating Identity: Translating Travel Writing in 18th- and 19th-Century Europe

Sandra Vlasta (Mainz): Intertextuality in Travel Writing – Negotiating Identity through Textual Relations


7pm Reading with Jochen Schmidt at the bookshop Cardabela,Frauenlobstr. 40, 55118 Mainz


8.30pm dinner

 

Friday, January 24, 2020


9.30am

Welcome address Nicole Birkle (EU office/Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)


9.45am – 11.15am

Postcolonial identities and alternative others

Jean-Xavier Ridon (Nottingham): Between otherness and identity: Francophone travel narrative itineraries

Winfried Eckel (Mainz):Negotiating identity in Aimé Césaire‘s “Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" 

Martina Kopf (Mainz): “Nothing was created in the West Indies”. V.S. Naipaul’s travelogue The Middle Passage


11.15am – 11.45am coffee break


11.45am – 12.45am

Travel writing and identity in an intermedial perspective

Birgit Englert (Vienna): European travel writing on Africa in the 21st century: focus on the relation between text and the visual in different media formats

Anna Sennefelder (Freiburg): Walking, self-discovery and mediality. Two exemplary analyses of contemporary walking tours

12.45am – 1.30pm Outlook

Tim Youngs (Nottingham):Closing remarks


1.30pm lunch


3.00pm excursion to the Gutenberg Museum (in Mainz)


6.00pm dinner

Quelle der Beschreibung: Information des Anbieters

Forschungsgebiete

Reiseliteratur, Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts, Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts
Reisebericht ; Identität

Links

Ansprechpartner

Einrichtungen

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Gutenberg-Institut für Weltliteratur und schriftorientierte Medien
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Verknüpfte Ressourcen

Institutionen

Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Mainz

Personen

Datum der Veröffentlichung: 17.01.2020
Letzte Änderung: 17.01.2020