Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:23:09 -0500 (CDT) From: heikki emil lempa <helempa@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Call for papers, travel conference (fwd) To: H-verkko <H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:53:50 -0400 From: H-Ideas Co-Editor (David Bailey) <idea@hs1.hst.msu.edu> From: Francois Quiviger <francois@sas.ac.uk>
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE ON:
PATHOLOGIES OF TRAVEL
SATURDAY 26th OCTOBER 1996
Travel has been represented as a blessing and a curse, as improving and wasteful: if the speed and ease of modern travel bring undreamt of opportunites for many, at the same time, the burgeoning transport infrastructure brings forth the worst excesses of environmental degradation and exploitation. Travel both demonstrates the health and stength of western technological and social organisation, and symbolises its deepest malaises. To view travel as evidence of a pathology is not, however, novel. Travel has long been associated with personal and social ailments and their remedies. The act of pilgrimage has carried the curative power of personal and national salvation across cultures and time. Exploration has sought scientific, medical and economic remedies for the social and technological ills of the western world. Travel has been a metaphor for regeneration that is at once personal, psychological and aesthetic. This conference provides an opportunity to bring together social and cultural historians, and historians of science and medicine.
Proposals for papers are invited from the disciplines represented in the organisation of the conference: Art History, History, Historical and Cultural Geography, Literary Studies. We would prefer papers to deal with topics within the 17th century to the early 20th century. The following themes are suggested, but others may be addressed:
Travel as an illness; Wanderlust and its discontents; Travel for health; Travel as therapy; Trends in medication for travel and prophylaxis whilst abroad; The 'Stendhal syndrome' and cognate phenomena; Exploration / expeditions / investigation of disease abroad; Illnesses related to new technologies of travel.
Proposals should take the form of a brief abstract, and should be sent by June 21st 1996 (or as soon as possible thereafter) to:
Richard Wrigley tel. 01865 483577 School of Humanities, fax. 01865 484082 Oxford Brookes University, E-mail: rwrigley@brookes.ac.uk Gipsy Lane, Headington Oxford OX3 OBP
0xford Brookes University Humanities Research Centre in collaboration with the Humanities MA Programme.