EVENTS: WORKSHOP: “ILLUSION AND DISILLUSIONMENT: TRAVEL WRITERS IN THE MODERN AGE”
Please join this exciting workshop, the coronation of several meetings of the BU Travel Literature Group, and learn about travel in Asia, the Middle East, the Atlantic world, and the world of literary imagination.
WORKSHOP: “ILLUSION AND DISILLUSIONMENT: TRAVEL WRITERS IN THE MODERN AGE”
Thursday MAY 14, 2015
Boston University, School of Theology Building, room 636; 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
PROGRAM
Panel 1: 10-11 am
“Travel, Adventure, and Self-fashioning: A Frenchman’s Journey to New Orleans in 1729” (Elizabeth Goldsmith, Romance Studies, BU, emerita)
“Fable, Truth, and Propaganda: Lay and Ecclesiastical Travelers from Europe to China in the Long 18th Century” (Eugenio Menegon, History, BU)
11-11:15 am – BREAK
Panel 2: 11:15 am -12:15 pm
“Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819): Monstrous Travel and the Seductions of Ancient Greece” (James Uden, Classics, BU)
“The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and the Great Game of the 19th Century” (Sunil Sharma, MLCL, BU)
12:15-1:30 LUNCH
Panel 3: 1:30-2:30 pm
“Marie Dugard Takes Notes: A Parisian Schoolteacher’s Spirited Reaction to 1890’s America (Mary Beth Raycraft, Romance Studies, BU)
“Travels of a Cosmopolitan Girl: Yoshiya Nobuko’s 1929 World Tour” (Sarah Frederick, MLCL, BU)
Panel 4: 2:30-3:30 pm
“Travel and Imagination: Halide Edib’s Encounters with an Illusory India” (Roberta Micallef, MLCL, BU)
“True Stories from the Moscow Dorms: Sonallah Ibrahim and Mohammad Malas at VGIK” (Margaret Litvin, MLCL, BU)
3:30-4 BREAK
KEYNOTE: 4-5 pm
Professor James Buzard (M.I.T.)
“Postcolonial Valediction: Durrell’s Bitter Lemons of Cyprus and the Legacies of the Grand Tour”
SPONSORS: Boston University Center for the Humanities, Middle East and North Africa Studies/, Center for the Study of Asia, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Romance Studies