Day One - Thursday 26 May
08.30 Registration - Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
09.15 Opening greeting – Brian Murray (King’s)
09.30 Plenary 1 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre, K6.29)
Clare Pettitt (King’s) – At Sea
Chair: Brian Murray
10.30 Coffee break – Anatomy Museum
11.00 Panel 1: Cultural Baggage – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Churnjeet Mahn (Surrey )
Kathryn Walchester (Liverpool John Moores) – Treading in Man’s [Textual] Footsteps: Nineteenth-century British women travel writers in Norway
Michel Ledger Lomas (Cambridge ) – ‘In the Steps of St. Paul
Anne Green (King’s) – Steaming Ahead? Writing about Rail Travel in Second-Empire France
12.30 Lunch – Anatomy Museum
13.30 Parallel Panels
Panel 2 : The Art of Travel – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Angela Byrne (NUI Maynooth & Toronto)
Vicky Mills (Birkbeck) – Reading , Viewing, Collecting: Extra-illustration and the ‘Museum of Rome
Amara Thornton (UCL) – Fathers and Daughters: Martin and Agnes Conway as ‘Educated Tourists’
Rosalind Leveridge (Exeter
Panel 3: African Excursions – K6.63
Chair: Kai Easton (SOAS)
Michael Faherty (Bedfordshire) – ‘Carlos Knows Africa’: The Curious Conversations of Sarah Lee’s The African Wanderers
Kate Compton (York
Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University , North Carolina ) – (Re)Writing the Royal Tour in Colonial South Africa
15.00 Break
15.05 Parallel Panels
Panel 4 : Romantic Routes – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Nicola Watson (Open University)
Gabrielle Kappes (CUNY) – Cartographic Contours: Mapping Place
Ivan Ortiz (Princeton ) – The Mail-Coach and the Timetable: De Quincey and the Transports of History
Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent) – Aesthetic Design, Generic Innovation and Gender Constraint in Early Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing: The Example of Maria Graham’s Journal of A Residence in Chile (1824)
Panel 5: The Sea! The Sea! – K6.63
Chair: Ian Henderson (King’s)
Chris Ewers (King’s) – ‘Visits at Sea are not like a Journey into the Country’: Travelling by Sea and Land in the Late Eighteenth Century’
Matthew Kerr (Oxford
Alison Wood (King’s) – Exotic Seas
16.30 Transfer to Weston Room, Maughan Library, where coffee will be served
17.00 Plenary 2 (Weston Room, Maughan Library)
Dane Kennedy (GWU) – Travel as Transport: the Logistics of Exploration in Africa and Australia
Chair: Kate Teltscher (Roehampton)
18.00 Special Workshop
Katie Sambrook (Foyle Library, King’s) – The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historical Collection, King’s College London
18.30 Wine reception, during which delegates are invited to view FCO Historical Collection.
20.00 Conference Dinner
Day Two - Friday 27 May
09.30 Parallel Panels
Panel 6: Cultural Baggage 2 – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Will Tattersdill (King’s)
Flora Wilson (King’s) – In Search of Grand Opéra: Verdi’s Don Carlos at the 1867 Paris
Melissa Dickson (King’s) – Competing Narratives of Time and History in the Works of Edward Lane
Philip Sidney (Cambridge
Panel 7: The Private Made Public: Journals, letters, notebooks – K6.63
Chair: Laurence Williams (Oxford
Jonathan Gross (De Paul University) – Anne Damer’s Portuguese Travel Notebooks and the Construction of Genre
Hannah J. Sikstrom (Oxford ) – Susan Horner’s Journeys, Journals and Gems: The Unpublished Accounts of a Nineteenth-Century Female Intellectual Traveller in Italy
Jessica Howell (King’s) – Nurses’ Travelling Identities: Letters from the West Indies and Africa , 1896-1914
11.00 Coffee break – Anatomy Museum
11.30 Parallel Panels
Panel 8: Dickens, London
Chair: Bethan Carey (Birkbeck)
Eleanor Packham (Birkbeck) – Sailors’ Yarns and Shipboard News: Dickens at Sea in the 1840s
Catherine Malcolmson (Leicester) – Walking Dickens’s London
Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary UL) – Elizabeth Banks’s Journalistic Holiday
Panel 9: Cut and Paste: Photographs, Scrapbooks, Paper Dolls (K6.63)
Chair: Megan Murray-Pepper (King’s)
Hannah Field (Oxford
Debbie Challis (Petrie Museum , UCL) – The Archaeologist as Ethnographic Tourist: Flinders Petrie and his journey on the Nile in 1886-7
Renate Dohmen (University of Louisiana , Lafayette ) – Penned, Painted and Pasted: Material (Re)collections of the ‘Shiny East:’ A Late Nineteenth-Century Travel Account by a Young British Woman in India
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Parallel Panels
Panel 10: Poetry in Motion – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Neil Vickers (King’s)
A. V. Seaton (Bedfordshire) – ‘In Italia - a tour for gentility’s sake’: Anapaestic Satire and the Socio-Political Functions of Tourism Representation in Regency England’
Nicolas Warner (Claremont McKenna College
Alison Chapman (University of Victoria , British Columbia ) – ‘The Aura of Place: The Protestant Cemetery in Rome
Panel 11: Dramatic Vehicles – K6.63
Chair: Louise Lee (King’s)
Muireann O’Cinneide (NUI Galway ) – ‘Camels, Elephants and Motley Processions: The Hidden Costs of Imperial Transport’
Matthew Ingleby (UCL) – ‘a conveyance of some sort’: The Hand of Ethelberta and Transport Alternatives
Alicia Rix (UCL) – ‘The Humours of Cycling’: Bicycles and the Literature of Laughter in the 1890s’
15.30 Break
15.35 Panel 12: Picturing Place – Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29)
Chair: Malcolm Cocks (King’s)
Peter Garratt (Northumbria
Julia K. Dabbs (Minnesota
Simon Goldhill (Cambridge
17.00 Coffee break – Anatomy Museum
17.30 Plenary 3 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre, K6.29)
Mary Beard (Cambridge ) – ‘Perhaps our expectations were wrought up too high’: the excitement and disappointment of a trip to Pompeii
Chair: William Fitzgerald (King’s)
18.45 Closing Remarks – Mary Henes (King’s)
