Daily Conference Schedule: Friday, November 14, 1997
This is our schedule as of November 1, 1997. Final changes will be announced at the conference.
Friday, 9:30 - 12:30 (Sessions 1 - 6)
SESSION 1: Dreams, Domesticity, and Destiny in the American West
SESSION 2: Ethnography, Topography, and Hegemony
- Espey,
David -- "Paul Theroux, the Peace Corps, and Postcolonial . . ."
- Judkins,
David C. -- "Fred Selous: Big Game Hunter, . . ."
- Colbert,
Ben -- "Erasing Islam, Consuming Culture: Mungo Park's Travels"
- Moore,
Alexander -- "Making Imperial Space: Time, Visibility, Productivity"
SESSION 3: Travel Writing and the Construction of the United Kingdom(s)
SESSION 4: 20th-Century Travel Guides and Travel Writing
SESSION 5: La Frontera y la Politica: Ambassadors and Refugees in Travel Writing on Latin America and Mexico
SESSION 6: Visiting Our Old Home: Americans in Britain
Friday, 1:30 - 3:30 (Sessions 7 - 12)
SESSION 7: Varieties of Visual Experience: James & Hawthorne as Travelers
SESSION 8: American Minorities at Home & Abroad
SESSION 9: Imaging and Imagining the Golden West
SESSION 10: Contending Gazes: Orientalism and the Imagined Self
SESSION 11: Brazil as Comfort Zone and Contact Zone (and Chile)
SESSION 12: Transforming Travel and the Travel Narrative: The Effect of Modes of Transport
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