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Journeying in the age of the anthropocene: Guest paper by Prof. Michael Cronin 28/4/21
We were delighted to welcome (albeit virtually) Professor Michael Cronin, who gave a paper, via Microsoft Teams, on 'Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene' on Wednesday 28th April 2021 in NTU's English research seminar series.
Abstract:
Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a sense of the diversity of the natural world, how they might interpret and respond to it and how human preoccupations are a help or a hindrance in maintaining bio-cultural diversity. Travel writing has constantly shaped how humans view the environment from foreign adventures to flight-shaming. If much of modern travel writing has been based on ready access to environmentally damaging forms of transport how do travel writers deal with a practice that is destroying the world they claim to cherish? This paper explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks what is the future for travel writing in the age of the Anthropocene?
Bio:
Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published extensively on language, culture, translation and travel writing. Among his works are Across the Lines: travel, language, translation (2000), Translation and Identity (2006), The Expanding World: towards a politics of microspection (2012) and Eco-Translation: translation and ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (2017). His current interests are in developing eco-criticism in relation to modern languages and translation, exploring the notion of ‘translation trauma’ in relation to population displacement and investigating language identities as mediated through travel.
Magazines on the Move: North American Periodicals and Travel
REGISTRATION:
Registration for Magazines on the Move is now closed. Please email ctws@ntu.ac.uk if you wish to attend and we will try to accommodate you, subject to availability.
Cost: Registration with lunch & refreshments: £20
Registration without lunch: £10
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Registration for Magazines on the Move is now closed. Please email ctws@ntu.ac.uk if you wish to attend and we will try to accommodate you, subject to availability.
Cost: Registration with lunch & refreshments: £20
Registration without lunch: £10
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A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with the Network for American Periodical Studies.
Friday 22nd September 2017, Newton Building, Room 44, Nottingham Trent University.
Keynote speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
Organisers: Dr Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University); Dr Rebecca Butler (Nottingham Trent University); Dr Sue Currell (Sussex University); Prof Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University).
Confirmed speakers include Dr Claire Lindsay (UCL) and Dr Rachel Farebrother (Swansea University).
This day-seminar will focus on the relationship between North American travel writing and the periodical format. Its primary purpose is to facilitate historical and critical discussion of narratives of travel in North American periodicals.
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that examine accounts of travel to, within, or from North America, published in North American periodicals. We also welcome papers on periodicals and travel of Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Topics to be examined in considering the interplay between the travel experience, the written and/or visual record of travel, and the periodical publication of the travel record, may include, but are not limited to:
A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with the Network for American Periodical Studies.
Friday 22nd September 2017, Newton Building, Room 44, Nottingham Trent University.
Keynote speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
Organisers: Dr Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University); Dr Rebecca Butler (Nottingham Trent University); Dr Sue Currell (Sussex University); Prof Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University).
Confirmed speakers include Dr Claire Lindsay (UCL) and Dr Rachel Farebrother (Swansea University).
This day-seminar will focus on the relationship between North American travel writing and the periodical format. Its primary purpose is to facilitate historical and critical discussion of narratives of travel in North American periodicals.
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers that examine accounts of travel to, within, or from North America, published in North American periodicals. We also welcome papers on periodicals and travel of Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Topics to be examined in considering the interplay between the travel experience, the written and/or visual record of travel, and the periodical publication of the travel record, may include, but are not limited to:
'Vacation Graphic', New-York Tribune (8 June 1919). Image courtesy of Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
- Commercial considerations
- Editorial policy and interventions
- Gender and sexuality
- Periodical context and design
- Purpose of travel
- ‘Race’
- Readership
- Solo or group travel
- Technologies of transport/mode of travel
- Tourism
- Visual representations
The seminar is a collaboration between Nottingham Trent’s Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS) and the Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS). It draws on the expertise of both research centres, as well as that of our keynote speaker, Professor Andrew Thacker (NTU), a specialist in modernist magazines and spatial geographies of modernism.
The Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS) was established by Prof Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University) in 2002 to produce, facilitate, and promote scholarly research on travel writing and its contexts, without restriction of period, locus, or type of travel writing.
The Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS) is a research initiative set up by Dr Sue Currell (Sussex University) and Dr Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University). It aims to bring together scholars working on American periodicals (magazines, newspapers and other periodical publications) from a range of historical periods and disciplines.
We welcome papers from scholars at any career stage and strongly encourage postgraduates to submit a proposal for consideration. Paper proposals of c200 words should be sent to ctws@ntu.ac.uk by 28th July 2017. Early submission is advised.
With grateful thanks to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) for financial support, we are now able to offer a limited number of travel bursaries and fee waivers for postgraduate students to attend. Priority will be given to those offering papers. Please state at the end of your proposal if you are a postgraduate wishing to apply for help towards costs.
POETRY, TRANSPORT & TRAVEL:
A WORKSHOP AT THE COVENTRY TRANSPORT MUSEUM,
LED BY DR CLIFF YATES
Date: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Time: 13.00-17.00
Join us for a poetry workshop from 1-5pm on Wednesday, 29 November in a collaboration between Coventry Transport Museum and the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, funded by the Museum University Partnership Initiative.
Following a guided tour with the curator and a welcome talk by a member of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, poet and tutor Cliff Yates will lead a 3-hour writing workshop on poetry, transport and travel. Whether you are a beginner or a published poet, we warmly invite you to take part in this unique opportunity to write travel poems inspired by your own experiences and in response to the museum’s collection of bicycle, motorcycles, buses and cars. This a great opportunity to get creative with Cliff and there may be an opportunity to have your poems published on either the CTWS or Museum website.
The workshop is free, but registration is essential and there may be a small charge for refreshments. You will be advised of this at the point of registration. To register your interest or make inquiries, please email ctws@ntu.ac.uk, using the subject line ‘Poetry Workshop at CTM’.
Dr Cliff Yates is a poet and writing tutor. His various books include Henry’s Clock (winner of the Aldeburgh prize), Frank Freeman’s Dancing School, Jam, and Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School. Formerly a teacher, lecturer, Poetry Society poet-in-residence and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, he is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and an Associate of the RLF Writing Project. He leads courses and workshops in the UK and abroad. For more information visit: www.cliffyates.co.uk.
Time: 13.00-17.00
Join us for a poetry workshop from 1-5pm on Wednesday, 29 November in a collaboration between Coventry Transport Museum and the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, funded by the Museum University Partnership Initiative.
Following a guided tour with the curator and a welcome talk by a member of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, poet and tutor Cliff Yates will lead a 3-hour writing workshop on poetry, transport and travel. Whether you are a beginner or a published poet, we warmly invite you to take part in this unique opportunity to write travel poems inspired by your own experiences and in response to the museum’s collection of bicycle, motorcycles, buses and cars. This a great opportunity to get creative with Cliff and there may be an opportunity to have your poems published on either the CTWS or Museum website.
The workshop is free, but registration is essential and there may be a small charge for refreshments. You will be advised of this at the point of registration. To register your interest or make inquiries, please email ctws@ntu.ac.uk, using the subject line ‘Poetry Workshop at CTM’.
Dr Cliff Yates is a poet and writing tutor. His various books include Henry’s Clock (winner of the Aldeburgh prize), Frank Freeman’s Dancing School, Jam, and Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School. Formerly a teacher, lecturer, Poetry Society poet-in-residence and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, he is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and an Associate of the RLF Writing Project. He leads courses and workshops in the UK and abroad. For more information visit: www.cliffyates.co.uk.
We_the_humanities: @CTWSATNTU Visiting curatorSHIP
For the week starting 8 May, Research Assistant Dr Rebecca Butler @CTWSatNTU will be curating @WetheHumanities, a rotation-curation account which offers a central platform for international discussion and news of the humanities in all its forms. Rebecca will be discussing topics from women's travel writing to guidebooks in the internet age, from public engagement to alt-academic careers. Please join the conversation and spread the word!
Public Lecture: 'Why Travel Writing?' by Professor Tim Youngs
Venue: Bromley House Library, Nottingham
Time: Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 2:00pm
Cost: Bromley House Members: £3.00, Visitors: £4.00.
How has travel writing changed over the years? Why do travel writers journey and write as they do? What do readers gain from the genre? Tim Youngs, Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, draws on more that a quarter of a century's research in the subject in an attempt to answer these and other questions. Tim is the author or editor of many books on travel writing and he has spoken by invitation in more that 20 countries.
This talk, which will reflect on Bromley House Library's own collections, is part of an ongoing collaboration with NTU's Centre for Travel Writing Studies.
Booking essential via 0115 9473134, enquries@bromleyhouse.org or by calling into the library.
For further information visit the Bromley House Library website.
Venue: Bromley House Library, Nottingham
Time: Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 2:00pm
Cost: Bromley House Members: £3.00, Visitors: £4.00.
How has travel writing changed over the years? Why do travel writers journey and write as they do? What do readers gain from the genre? Tim Youngs, Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, draws on more that a quarter of a century's research in the subject in an attempt to answer these and other questions. Tim is the author or editor of many books on travel writing and he has spoken by invitation in more that 20 countries.
This talk, which will reflect on Bromley House Library's own collections, is part of an ongoing collaboration with NTU's Centre for Travel Writing Studies.
Booking essential via 0115 9473134, enquries@bromleyhouse.org or by calling into the library.
For further information visit the Bromley House Library website.
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Programme for On The Margins (30 June 2016)
The programme for On The Margins, Postgraduate Seminar on Travel Writing at CTWS on 30 June 2016, is now available for download. |
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CFP: Postgraduate Seminar
On the Margins: Postgraduate Seminar on Travel Writing
Date: 30 June 2016
Location: The Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2016
The Centre of Travel Writing Studies (CTWS) at Nottingham Trent University invites postgraduates researching travel writing of all eras to join us in a one-day workshop exploring travel writing ‘on the margins’.
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the journal, Studies in Travel Writing, edited by Tim Youngs, this workshop celebrates the growing popularity of travel writing as an area of study, and its increasing expansion beyond the margins of literary and cultural studies over the past two decades. At the same time, we encourage a new generation of scholars to address those aspects and varieties of travel writing which remain on the margins of the discipline. We are therefore especially interested to hear from researchers whose work destabilises or complicates the genre through consideration of marginalised travel writing or travel writers.
Papers should focus on accounts of actual travel by authors who have undertaken the journeys described. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Travel writing in translation or non-Anglophone travel writing
* Postcolonial travel writing
* Working-class travellers/travel writers
* Forced transfer or displacement (e.g. slavery, exile, refugee, Balkan narratives)
* Migration (e.g. Windrush narratives, Irish and Scottish diasporic narratives)
* Domestic travel writing
* Gender and travel writing
* Sexuality and travel writing
* Mode of travel (e.g. pedestrianism, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, boat, aeroplane)
* Manuscript travel accounts
* Travel writing in alternative narrative forms (e.g. graphic novels, magazines, blogs)
* Non-linear or non-textual forms of travel narrative (e.g. oral cultures, Indigenous Australian songlines)
* Poetry and travel
* Creative explorations of travel writing
* Re-readings of established travel texts
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to Rebecca Butler and Mara Sprengel at OnTheMargins@ntu.ac.uk by 15 March 2016.
On the Margins: Postgraduate Seminar on Travel Writing
Date: 30 June 2016
Location: The Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2016
The Centre of Travel Writing Studies (CTWS) at Nottingham Trent University invites postgraduates researching travel writing of all eras to join us in a one-day workshop exploring travel writing ‘on the margins’.
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the journal, Studies in Travel Writing, edited by Tim Youngs, this workshop celebrates the growing popularity of travel writing as an area of study, and its increasing expansion beyond the margins of literary and cultural studies over the past two decades. At the same time, we encourage a new generation of scholars to address those aspects and varieties of travel writing which remain on the margins of the discipline. We are therefore especially interested to hear from researchers whose work destabilises or complicates the genre through consideration of marginalised travel writing or travel writers.
Papers should focus on accounts of actual travel by authors who have undertaken the journeys described. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Travel writing in translation or non-Anglophone travel writing
* Postcolonial travel writing
* Working-class travellers/travel writers
* Forced transfer or displacement (e.g. slavery, exile, refugee, Balkan narratives)
* Migration (e.g. Windrush narratives, Irish and Scottish diasporic narratives)
* Domestic travel writing
* Gender and travel writing
* Sexuality and travel writing
* Mode of travel (e.g. pedestrianism, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, boat, aeroplane)
* Manuscript travel accounts
* Travel writing in alternative narrative forms (e.g. graphic novels, magazines, blogs)
* Non-linear or non-textual forms of travel narrative (e.g. oral cultures, Indigenous Australian songlines)
* Poetry and travel
* Creative explorations of travel writing
* Re-readings of established travel texts
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to Rebecca Butler and Mara Sprengel at OnTheMargins@ntu.ac.uk by 15 March 2016.
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