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 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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