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