BU conference featuring Professor Emerita Goldsmith and Mary Beth Raycraft-Guzman
Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writers in the Modern Age
Starts: 10:00 am on Thursday, May 14, 2015
Ends: 5:00 pm on Thursday, May 14, 2015
Location: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, STH room 636
A one-day conference featuring presentation by BU professors: Elizabeth Goldsmith (RS), Eugenio Menegon (HI), James Uden (CL), Sunil Sharma (MLCL), Mary Beth Guzman Raycraft (MLCL), Sarah Frederick (MLCL), Roberta Micallef (MLCL), and Margaret Litvin (MLCL). Keynote speaker, James Buzard (MIT), will be speaking from 4-5 pm on “Postcolonial Valediction: Durrell’s ‘Bitter Lemons of Cyprus’ and the Legacies of the Grand Tour.” Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, Middle East and North Africa Studies, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, and Romance Studies.
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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.
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)
BREAK: 11-11:15 am
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)
LUNCH: 12:15-1:30
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)
BREAK: 3:30-4:00
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