Snapshot Traveller #242 (12 November 2018)

Monthly Newsletter of the International Society for Travel Writing

CALLS FOR ESSAYS

- Transatlantic Dialogues (SPECIAL ISSUE), JMMLA (15 Dec)- Itinerario (BOOK REVIEWS) (1 Jan)- Elizabeth Bowen Review, 2 (2019) (31 Jan)- Literary Walks, Slow Travel, & Eco-Awareness […] (SPECIAL ISSUE) (1 Feb)

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CALLS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS:

- Staging the Space Between, 1914-1945 (1 Dec)- Does ‘Invisible Privilege’ Travel?: Beyond Geographies of White Privilege (15 Dec)- Vladimir Nabokov: History & Geography (15 Dec)- Techniques of Memory: Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium & Power (20 Dec)- 3rd Annual Global Souths Conference (31 Dec)- Comparative Perspectives on the ‘Orient’ in (Early) Modern Travelogues (7 Jan)- East Asia in Global Perspective: Transnational Movement & Exchange c. 1850-1950 (11 Jan)- Brave New Worlds: Early Modern Discoveries, SEDERI (30 Jan)- Pilgrimages & Tourism (15 Feb)- Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1 Apr)

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

- Studies in Travel Writing, 22.2 (June 2018)

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AWARDS & PRIZES:

- Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2019 (30 Nov)

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PhD STUDENTSHIPS:

- Creative writing: emigration & immigration between Scotland & Australia, Aberdeen University- Cultural & Historical Geography, Royal Holloway

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REGULAR VENUES:

A link to Regular Venues is provided in the sidebar of the Snapshot blog on the CTWS website: http://centrefortravelwritingstudies.weebly.com/snapshot_traveller_istw

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CALLS FOR ESSAYS:

Transatlantic Dialogues (SPECIAL ISSUE), Journal of the Midwest Modern Languages Association

Deadline: 15 December 2018 (articles)

Guest Editor: Michelle Medeiros

This special issue of the Journal of the MMLA aims to interrogate how transatlantic encounters, itineraries, and movements have shaped literary and cultural expressions, influencing the formation of both individual and collective knowledge. In particular, it aspires to foster a dialogue to address political, ethical, sexual, and aesthetic questions related to transatlantic interactions among people, practices, and ideas, expanding from traditional Eurocentric perspectives and canonized narratives to encompass a global perspective. This dialogue becomes even more relevant in the present days, considering the political and cultural implications of such motilities. Transatlantic travels have played a significant and even determining role in mobilizing subjects and groups and in generating intercultural collaboration and specialized knowledge. While exposing tensions involving race, class, gender, and religion, the transatlantic experience also provides an opportunity to challenge traditional notions of belonging such as nation and nationality, fixed categories of identity, and accepted gender norms. Of particular interest are the themes of authority, movement, and identity emerging from the transatlantic world from any time period as well as topics related to the social and cultural resonance of mobilized subjects and groups. Especially welcome are essays that offer new perspectives and sources that cross traditional disciplinary borders and theoretical divides.

Submissions should follow MLA guidelines, should be between 7000 and 10000 words (including notes), and may be interested in any of (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Circulation and exchange of ideas, objects, people, texts Identity and subjectivity Mobility Cultural geographies Space and time Literary transatlantic perspectives Middle Passage/Triangular Slave Trade Place and displacement Ecology and ecosystems Cross national boundaries Cultural formations Converging discourses TRAVEL WRITING Intercultural artistic manifestations Transatlantic exiles Transatlantic diasporas Feminisms and transfeminisms Transatlantic masculinities Cultural studies Environmental and cultural sustainability of the transatlantic Indigenous cultures in the transatlantic world Postcolonial approaches to the transatlantic Race, gender, and subalternity Theoretical and critical production Transatlantic studies: The Caribbean/Europe/Africa Comparative studies of transatlantic and transoceanic experiences

Contact: Michelle Medeiros (mmla@luc.edu)

Itinerario (BOOK REVIEWS)

Deadline: 1 January 2019

Itinerario: The Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, published by Cambridge University Press, has interesting and timely titles available for review (see list below). If you see a book that you would like to review, please send me the title and your  FULL MAILING ADDRESS.  I will confirm with you if a designated book is being sent to you. Completed reviews (1000 words) are due by the above deadline.

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask.  Thank you to all those who volunteer to review for Itinerario!  

- L.H. Roper, ed., Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century  (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018).

- Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker, eds., World History—A Genealogy: Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996-2016 (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2017).

- David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson, eds., The Cambridge World History of Slavery (1804-2016), Volume 4  (Cambridge: CUP, 2017).

- Colleen Kriger, Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast (Anthens: Ohio University Press, 2017).

- Katherine Gerbner, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

- Zeb Tortorici, Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018).

- Christian Koot, A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake(New York: NYU Press, 2018). 

- Milind Banerjee, The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India (Cambridge: CUP, 2018).  

- Paul Bijl, Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015). 

- Lennart Bes and Gijs Kruijtzer, eds., Dutch Sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825, Vol. 3: Archival Guide to Repositories Outside The Netherlands(New Delhi: Manohar, 2015). 

- Sebastian Prange, Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast (Cambridge: CUP, 2018). 

- Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018). 

- Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest, eds., Victorian Jamaica  (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). 

- Zeb Tortorici, ed., Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America (Oakland: UC Press, 2017).

- Brooke Newman, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018). 

- Ernesto Bassi, An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016). 

- Anne Eller, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).

- James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). 

- Daniel Rood, The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean (Oxford: OUP, 2017). 

- L.H. Roper, Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 (Cambridge: CUP, 2017). 

- Peter Mancall, Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). 

- Jeffers Lennox, Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017). 

- Daniel Livesay, Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). 

- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). 

- Cameron Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

- Kelly Watson, Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World  (New York: NYU Press, 2015). 

- Anne Salmond, Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds  (Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2018). 

- Stephen Neufeld, The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017). 

- Jurgen Osterhammel, Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia  (Princeton: Princeton University Pres, 2018). 

- Hanna Hodacs, Silk and Tea in the North: Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016). 

- Pablo Gomez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). 

- Pius Malekandathil, Joy L.K. Pachuau, Tanika Sarkar, eds., Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge (Delhi: Primus Books, 2016). 

- Harry Gamble, Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017). 

- Edgar Porter and Ran Ying Porter, Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017). 

- Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie, Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815  (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). 

- Kathleen Keller, Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018). 

- Bonnie Effros, Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa  (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). 

- Alexander Haskell, For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017). 

- Jutta Wimmler, The Sun King’s Atlantic: Drugs, Demons, and Dyestuffs in the Atlantic World, 1640-1730 (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 

- Christopher Church, Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017). 

Contact: Matthew A. Cook (mcook@nccu.edu)

Elizabeth Bowen Review, 2 (2019)

Deadline: 31 January 2019 (articles)

The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the second volume of the journal in May 2019.

Essays may cover any theme or specific work, but the editors are particularly interested in the less-explored areas of Bowen scholarship. These include:

Bowen’s short stories Bowen as a reviewer and critic Bowen’s TRAVEL WRITING (e.g. A Time in Rome) Bowen’s non-fictional writings (Bowen’s Court, Seven Winters, The Shelbourne) Bowen as a comic writer

Essays should be 6-7000 words including citations, and use Harvard referencing. Please attach a 150-word abstract and short biography.

Contact: Dr Nicola Darwood AND Dr Nick Turner (nicola.darwood@beds.ac.uk)

Further details: http://www.bowensociety.com/elizabeth-bowen-review/

Literary Walks, Slow Travel, & Eco-Awareness in Contemporary Literature (SPECIAL ISSUE), Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature

Deadline: 1 February 2019 (abstracts); 1 July 2019 (articles)

Guest Editor: Peter Arnds, Trinity College Dublin

One of the latest fitness trends from Sweden is the so-called ‘plogging’, picking up trash while jogging. Embarking from this image of social engagement for the purpose of healing the planet proposals are sought for an upcoming issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature for a series of essays in English that analyse literary, filmic, or other artistic productions in twentieth- and twenty-first century German, French, Italian, or Spanish speaking cultures in view of the links between ‘slow travel’ and eco-awareness.

Slow travel implies an intensification of experiencing the environment, its devastation, and possibilities of healing. This is not limited to walking alone, although authors of literary walks such as W.G. Sebald or Friedrich Christian Delius are important for this volume. Such literature reveals the tension between the solitary walker distancing himself from the community with its social and political responsibilities, while at the same time actually engaging more closely with the global community and its concerns about the environment and politics. But walking in literature can also be an intensely neo-Romantic experience. When Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft (later Mary Shelley) first eloped and found themselves stranded without money in Paris they decided to walk the 700 km distance to Switzerland. While nineteenth-century literature teems with walkers, how does this map out in the twentieth and twenty-first century?

Apart from this focus on literary walks we seek submissions on various other texts linking ecological awareness to unusual forms of travel. Proposed essays may include but are not limited to topics such as:

walking as neo-romanticism slow travel and encounters with animals; theory of psychogeography walking and health in literature; debunking myths about other species; diversity of forms of slow travel in literature and film; eco-humour; intense encounters with the natural world; the potential of slow travel for healing oneself, others, and the planet at large (as in Werner Herzog’s

winter walk from Munich to Paris); walking and eco-awareness in film and the visual arts; interdisciplinary approaches to slow travel and literature; walking and myth; slow travel, walking, and borders; nocturnal walking in literature metaphors of slow travel in the context of ecocriticism; slow travel, gender, and ecology; bicycling in contemporary literature; walking in the city versus nature; walking at night; walking and emotion; philosophies of slow travel in contemporary literary texts; wandering and resistance; walking as trauma; walking as privilege;

This volume argues that with the slowing down of physical mobility and the traveller’s self-marginalization and constant crossing of boundaries, walking and other forms of slow travel increase political alertness, reflection, and a tendency to protest. We are interested in submissions also that examine contemporary literature in light of the philosophical and literary roots of such travel (such as Jean Jacques Rousseau or Robert Louis Stevenson), and which engage densely with theories of slowness, wandering as resistance, and self-exiling during travel (e.g., Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, Frédéric Gros’ Philosophy of Walking, Ernst Jünger’s Der Waldgang, Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust). The volume is open to a diversity of theorizations. What function does slow travel, especially walking, have for the social responsibility of travellers who follow what Deleuze and Guattari have called a rhizomatic trail across borderless smooth space? Rebecca Solnit has argued, for example, that slow travel ‘ideally is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned’ (Wanderlust 2000).

As Guest Editor I am particularly interested in submissions which examine how literature and film represent slow travel -- with its cosmopolitan, polyphonic messages, and the temporary exile of lonely and visionary individuals walking away from their communities and trespassing across communal, territorial, and national boundaries – and whether slow travel may, in the end, be more conducive to the healing of the planet than an insistence on social and political responsibility that is firmly attached to hermetically sealed-off civic, national, and thus ultimately imagined communities.

Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature is committed to publishing high quality, anonymously peer-reviewed articles written in English on post-1900 literature, film, and media in French, German, and Spanish. The journal is devoted to theory and criticism in the modern languages and encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative submissions. Many acclaimed literary critics and theoreticians have appeared in STTCL and served as guest editors of STTCL special issues dedicated to one language or theme. Likewise, the editorial advisory council includes esteemed authors, critics, and theoreticians in French, German, Spanish, and Comparative Literature. From 1976 to 2003, the journal was known as Studies in 20th Century Literature, and through 2013, it appeared in print form twice a year (winter and summer) and it is currently published in an online, Open Access format which enhances the journal’s sustainability and broadens its global readership.

Please provide a 500-word abstract for articles not to exceed 7500 words, along with a brief CV, complete contact details, and academic affiliation, in an email with the reference line of STTCL Abstract.

Contact: Dr Peter Arnds (arndsp@tcd.ie)

CONFERENCES:

Staging the Space Between, 1914-1945, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD (30 May-1 June 2019)

Deadline: 1 December 2018 What is the role of staging in The Space Between? What does it look like, where does it occur, and how does it function?

Staging is an essential part of how we conceptualize history, literature, culture, and art. The concept of staging naturally invokes performance and invites us to examine this period’s performing arts: its theatre, dance, and music, its art and artists, celebrities and entrepreneurs, its practices and innovations. Staging expands the realm of performance to include more diverse arts, media, and productions, such as fashion, literature, performance art, and interior design. Technical innovations extended modes of performance to radio, cinema, television, staging the voice and the body in new and provocative ways to different and diverse audiences. However, staging extends beyond the arts into other realms of society. We can observe how staging operates within consumer culture, from the department store to the popular periodical, and we can track the growth of industries that relied on mass production. The term embraces other registers of performance and enables us to consider the performativity of language and gender, warfare and nationhood, politics and protest. Staging shapes the way we remember the present and the past, both as individuals and as a society.

We welcome paper proposals that engage with the various forms and meanings of staging in the 1914-1945 period, across disciplines and media, on research and/or pedagogy. Possible topics also include:

Staging production (economy, labour, Britain’s General Strike, the assembly line) Staging alternatives (cabaret, avant-garde, Dada) Staging exhibitions (visual arts, art history, museums, collections, world fairs, colonial expositions) Staging the future (International Expo of Art and Technology in Modern Life, the talkies) Staging design (Ideal Home Show, Omega workshops, the runway) Staging TRAVEL (TRAVEL WRITING, refugees, evacuees, soldiers) Staging intersections (migration, transnationalism) Staging a coup (fascism, communism, radical suffrage) Staging disaster (the Holocaust, the influenza pandemic, war) Staging the nation (representations, developing histories, colonialism, politics) Staging a comeback (spectacle, hoax, extravaganza) Staging the academy (periodization, pedagogy) Staging authorship (publication, periodicals, staged readings, celebrity authors) Behind the Scenes (makeup, lighting, costume, sound design) Unusual staging (puppets, magic, circus) Offstage and waiting in the wings

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to the address below. Submissions should include the author’s name, affiliation, and contact information.

Contact: nicole.flynn@sdstate.edu

Does ‘Invisible Privilege’ Travel?: Looking Beyond the Geographies of White Privilege, Singapore (2-3 May 2019)

Deadline: 15 December 2018

Convenors: Saroja Dorairajoo (National University of Singapore); Laavanya Kathiravelu (Nanyang Technological University); Ted Hopf (National University of Singapore)

The politics of identity is becoming increasingly salient. Being an undocumented immigrant in the United States, a Muslim in India or an asylum seeker in Australia today has a considerably disproportionate impact not just on quality of life indicators, but also for access to basic human rights and civil liberties. Within this context of rising conservatism and racialised modes of nationalism in the US, Europe and parts of Asia, the concept of racialised privilege has been reinvoked as a useful means to understand how collective resentment, and structural as well as everyday inequalities manifest.

Much recent research interrogates the implications of white privilege in the United States (Khan 2011, Sullivan 2017) as well as the UK (Bhopal 2018) and compellingly demonstrates unequal outcomes in education, incomes and job opportunities. These studies take the established notion of ‘white privilege’ (McIntosh 1988), to demonstrate that despite enabling institutions of social mobility such as meritocracy and affirmative action, race, together with socio-economic status and gender, can become a static and stubborn structural impediment that requires more severe actions to dismantle.

The concept of privilege, which has been described as an ‘invisible package of unearned assets’, however, unlike related notions of (new) racism, discrimination, xenophobia or social capital, has not travelled or been translated readily across geographical contexts that don't have a white majority. Barring a few studies on gender privilege in South and Southeast Asia (Sen & Stivens 1998; McKay 2011; Sharafi 2014), there are remarkably few studies on privilege in Asia. The invisibility of this concept in scholarly research on Asian societies is jarring especially since Asia, including and especially Southeast Asia, has been a popular site for inter-ethnic strife and violence. While social tensions and inequalities are attributed to class privilege (Pinches 1999, Teo 2018), it is striking that there is little academic research and literature on intersecting racialised forms of privilege.

One of the key strands of this conference is devoted to exploring whether the concept of ‘invisible privilege,’ developed to explain how white America understands itself as blameless in the oppression of its own racial minorities, and even understands itself as the victim, can travel to Singapore to better understand the position of the local Chinese community in relation to ethnic minority groups. Much of the research on multiracialism in Singapore fosters the image of a peaceful and harmonious society where living in close proximity in a land scarce country has increased understandings of cultural diversity (Benjamin 1976; Clammer 1998; Hefner 2001; Ong, Tong & Tan 1997; Lai 1995; Quah 1990; Vasil 2000). On the other hand, many scholarly works on Singapore also touch on social and racial inequality (Trocki 2006) or focus on outright discrimination experienced by ethnic minorities in the city-state (Rahim 1998; Tremewan 1994; Velayutham 2017; 2016; 2014; 2009). It is in relation to this existing body of work that we consider the possible intellectual contributions of adopting ‘privilege’ as an analytical framework.

In this conference, we hope to bring together scholars who interrogate how racialised privilege intersects with other vectors of difference such as immigration status, gender, sexual orientation and socio-economic class. In understanding how race operates relationally, we want to move past subjective and idiosyncratic understandings of invisible privilege and interrogate the cumulative everyday as well as institutional nature of inequality and its consequences.

The conference looks to explore, but is not limited to the following questions:

How can we theorize privilege in an Asian context (ie. one that does not have a history of slavery or segregation)?

How does racialised privilege intersect with others forms of advantage or disadvantage, particularly gendered and classed identities?

Does Chinese privilege exist in Singapore? How can we measure it? Does the concept of ‘privilege’ have analytical purchase? Does it add to our understandings of social

and political phenomena in ways that related concepts like racism and advantage don’t encompass? How do institutions such as schools, language policies and housing practices serve to institute or reify

privilege and advantage? How can privilege be understood from a social networks perspective? How is social mobility and

advancement experienced by ethnic groups with different amounts of social capital? How do measurements of implicit bias contribute to interrogations of privilege?

How can we methodologically and conceptually avoid the analytical pitfalls of reifying identity groups in discussions of privilege?

Submissions should include a title, an abstract of 250 words, short biography (maximum 100 words) using the paper proposal form found in this listing. Draft papers of 5000 words will be expected by beginning of April 2019.The organisers will provide hotel accommodation for three nights and/or a contribution towards airfare for accepted paper participants (one author per paper). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 7 January 2019.

Contact: Sharon Ong (arios@nus.edu.sg)

Further details: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/0a2a9d61-b7f9-4a1b-a29d-c61c8375b0fb

Vladimir Nabokov: History & Geography, Sorbonne University / University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris (6-8 June 2019)

Deadline: 15 December 2018

Organisers: Yannicke Chupin (University of Cergy-Pontoise); Agnès Edel-Roy (Paris-Est Créteil University); Anne-Marie Lafont (Société française Vladimir Nabokov); Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg); Sigolène Vivier (Sorbonne University).

Organised by Société française Vladimir Nabokov

Keynote speakers: Isabelle Poulin (Bordeaux-Montaigne University); Will Norman (University of Kent).

The year 2019 will be an important one in Nabokov studies. It will mark a hundred years since the beginning of the writer’s exile, forced in 1919 to leave Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. It will also mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ada, or Ardor (1969), a major novel in which the author reconfigures history and geography on a global scale. The historical and geographical dimensions of Nabokov’s work remain relatively understudied for reasons having to do with a certain tradition of critical interpretation and reception. By examining the connections between Nabokov’s texts and history and geography, we would like to read Nabokov against the grain by questioning certain interpretations that insist on the autotelic character of his work and its resistance to historical and geographical discourses. History and geography represent however two major concerns in Nabokov’s writings, which work in close interaction and the study of which has recently brought to the fore a new understanding of Nabokov.

This conference invites readers and researchers to explore the representations of history and geography in the writer’s work, in connection to the changes of place and language, as well as the historical evolutions that marked Nabokov’s life and career. Researchers may address questions having to do with referentiality and the ways in which historical and geographical realities are transmuted into fiction. From this perspective, we encourage analyses that explore the various spaces and times in Nabokov’s fiction, among which: Russia (its language, literary tradition, culture and history, the memories attached to it as well as its retrospective construction); Germany, Berlin and emigration; Germany and the rise of Nazism; Paris and the ‘blood spots’ staining the streets in the wake of the Revolution; Paris and emigration; America as the land of territorial exploration and butterfly-hunting, where highbrow and pop cultures mingle; Switzerland as neutral ground, in relation with the suspension of history and the mode of the pastoral in Ada. We will also welcome reflections on what the oft-used words ‘invention’ and ‘creation’ signify in the construction of Nabokov’s novelistic universes; also of interest will be the metaphor of writing as creation and exploration of a world discussed in ‘Good Readers and Good Writers.’

In light of these themes and reflections, topics may include but are not restricted to:

Historical and geographical sources in Nabokov’s work Referentiality and fictionalization of historical and geographical reality

Poetic treatment and metamorphoses of history and geography Rereadings and rewritings of historical events, political regimes, ideologies and philosophies of history Reinvention and recreation of history and geography Imaginary worlds Writing about exploration, writing as exploration TRAVELS, journeys, exploration, movement and displacement Nabokovian spaces and times in translation The critical reception of Nabokov’s texts in relation with history and geography

Proposals should be submitted in English or in French. Feedback will be provided by 20 January 2019.

Contact: vn.histoiregeo2019@vladimir-nabokov.org

Techniques of Memory: Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium & Power, Global Urban Humanities Initiative, David Brower Center, University of California, Berkeley (17-18 April 2019)

Deadline: 20 December 2018

Organisers: Anna Livia Brand; Sarah Hwang; Susan Moffat; Valentina Rozas-Krause; Andrew Shanken; Bryan Wagner.

Before World War II, Robert Musil famously claimed that there was nothing in this world as invisible as a monument. Yet, recent events in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere signal Musil might have been mistaken: monuments and memorials can be easily awakened to inspire activist movements and shift local politics. While old monuments are falling, new memorials are being erected at heightened speed. The distance between an injustice, tragedy, or deed, and its memorialization seems to be rapidly decreasing.

The foundational literature on memorialization, which includes classics such as Pierre Nora’s Lieux de Memoire, James Young’s The Texture of Memory, Andreas Huyssen’s Twilight Memories, dealt with a historical phenomenon rooted in the 80s and were heightened by anxieties about the new millennium. Nearly three decades later it seems pressing to reassess the role that memory and its physical manifestations –memorials, monuments, plaques, calendars, photographs– play in our contemporary world. The 2019 Global Urban Humanities conference, Techniques of Memory, invites scholars, artists, architects, and activists to come together to analyze memorialization as a historical phenomenon, discuss the contemporary role of memorials, and examine the changing role of memory in diverse geographical areas and historical periods.

We invite proposals for presentations of scholarly papers, artist’s talks, design proposals and activist projects.

The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is a joint venture between the UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities Division of the College of Letters & Science and the College of Environmental Design. Thanks to the vision and support of the Mellon Foundation, it brings together scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, city and regional planning, and multiple humanities disciplines - ranging from comparative literature and history of art to theater, dance and performance studies. Together, faculty and graduate students are developing new theoretical paradigms, research methods, and pedagogical approaches in order to help address the complex problems facing today's global cities and regions.

Techniques of Memory: Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power will be a two-day symposium organized by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley, from April 17th to 18th 2019 at the David Brower Center in Downtown Berkeley. Following the principles of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, our symposium seeks to bring together not only scholars, but practitioners, activists and artists to think about monuments, memorial landscapes, iconoclasm, mediums and materiality, as well as memory politics and power from the unique interdisciplinary standpoint that this platform provides. The symposium will consist of four panels: Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power. We ask submissions to reference which of the four panels they would like to be considered for:

Landscape : Contributions that engage with what could be largely defined as memorial landscapes: geographies of memory, geopolitics of memorials, as well as monuments and memorials in specific social and cultural contexts.

Iconoclasm : Contributions that engage with the destruction, removal, intervention, mobility and stasis, re-appropriation, and re-signification of monuments and memorials.

Medium: Contributions that examine the materiality, production, and labour of memory, monuments and memorials.

Power : Contributions that engage with politics and institutions of memory, race and memory, gender and memory, debates around postcolonial memorialization, as well as struggles for recognition and reparation.

Additionally, keynote speakers Austin Allen (New Orleans), Jason Berry (New Orleans), Lauren Kroiz (Berkeley), Marita Sturken (New York), Hans van Houwelingen (Amsterdam), will each contribute to one of the four themes of the conference and will serve as respondents to the delivered papers.

Submissions should include the following: Contact information (name and email); Institutional affiliation and/or address; Title of contribution; Type of contribution (paper, performance, artist talk, design talk); Preferred panel (landscape, iconoclasm, medium or power); Abstract/summary (300 words); CV (no more than 4 pages); Optional: 1-2 Illustrations. Please send submissions as one PDF file, labelled as LastNameFirstName_TechniquesofMemory.pdf.

Selected presenters will be supported at the symposium with $1000 for travel and lodging expenses for presenters from outside the US, $800 for presenters traveling within the US, and $400 for presenters traveling within California.

Contact (Queries & Submissions): Valentina Rozas-Krause (vrozas@berkeley.edu)

Further details: http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu/symposium-call-for-papers-for-techniques-of-memory

3rd Annual Global Souths Conference, University of Louisiana, Lafayette (4-6 April 2019)

Deadline: 31 December 2018

Whether in the American or global context, Souths are the site of cheap labour, once exploited agriculturally and then industrially for the profit of the colonizing and industrialized and technologically advanced Norths.

- James L. Peacock, Carla Jones, and Catherine Brooks, ‘Gatoka Drive’, The American Souths in a Global World (2005)

The Global Souths conference is a three-day, interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore the connections between the U. S. South and the Global South. The South is more than a place. It is a point of connection, a nexus of ideas transcending both geographical and ideological boundaries. We invite all scholars and graduate students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to submit critical and creative proposals that explore humanity's interactions with and responses to an increasingly globalized world. Some possible approaches to this conference theme may include but are not limited to the following:

Space, place, and globalization Challenging notions of ‘Global’ Norths/Souths The language of a global identity Conceptualizations of passing, ethnic hybridity Interethnic influences and cultural appropriations Global feminisms; women and nation building

Social Media War and Revolution Urban development and gentrification Imperialism and subalternity Commodification of place: The World Tourism Organization and poverty World Health Organization, global hysteria, epidemics Labour politics, NAFTA and the WTO Pedagogy for generating or transforming learning Environmental sustainability

The conference organisers welcome and encourage complete panel submissions, as well as individual paper abstract submissions. Creative work related to the conference theme is also welcome.

Contact: Jeanna Mason, Programming Chair (dsgsconference@gmail.com)

Further details: http://dsgsconference.weebly.com

On the Way into the Unknown? Comparative Perspectives on the ‘Orient’ in (Early) Modern Travelogues, Austrian Academy of Sciences/Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Vienna (28-29 November 2019)

Deadline: 7 January 2019

Organisers: Arno Strohmeyer/Doris Gruber/project team ‘Travelogues: Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876—A Computerized Analysis’

The ‘Orient’ was a popular travel destination during the (Early) Modern Period. People went there on pilgrimages, diplomatic missions, and to trade, conduct research or educate themselves. Records of these experiences offer an excellent source to scrutinize perceptions of otherness. By analyzing this, one has to face several challenges: what people perceived as ‘other’ is always an expression of relationships. It varied individually and in connection with the socio-cultural background of each person. There is no binary distinction between ‘other’ and ‘own’, but a transition zone with a multiverse of variations. Additionally, most of the travelogues were (co-)dependent upon each other and/or different kinds of media. What was perceived as 'other' created and solidified power relationships as well as stereotypes. Current research has emphasized the mutual influence of perceptions of otherness and transformation processes connected to politics, media and society. Again, a strong influence of the socio-cultural background can be observed. In the German-speaking-world, the conquest of Constantinople (1453) and the failed siege of Vienna (1683) were decisive events, while the conquest of Granada (1492) played an important role in Spain, and the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the Peace of Eisenburg (1664) had a lasting influence in Hungary. From the 18th century onward, the increasingly differientiated and critically considered notion of ‘Orientalism’ (Edward W. Said) as well as a simultaneously prospering ‘Orientmania’ seem to be tangible on a more transcultural level.

These source and topic-inherent circumstances make comparative analysis more challenging, reflected, for example, in the fact that previous research on ‘otherness’ usually focused on individual or a few selected travelogues or similar media (types). Therefore, possibilities and limits of comparative studies will be explored in the course of the workshop. To enhance the discussion, a focus in terms of geography, types of media and time is established. We invite you to discuss perceptions of the ‘Orient’ (especially the Ottoman and Persian Empires) in travelogues from the 16th to the 19th centuries. To obtain a comprehensive understanding, the travellers will originate in as many as possible different cultures. Among others, non-European perspectives are particularly welcome, especially on travels within the Orient. The papers of the workshop will cover, but are not limited to, the following topics.

Topic 1 Perceptions of Otherness: What was perceived as ‘other’ in the travelogues on the ‘Orient’? How was otherness constructed? Which differences and developments can be shown in a synchronous or diachronic perspective?

Topic 2 Biographics: To what extent did the biographical and socio-cultural background of the persons involved in the production of travelogues and the (presumed) recipients influence the perceptions of otherness contained therein? How can this be proven?

Topic 3 Intermateriality and Intermodality: How did the travelogues relate to other reports and media, especially concerning the texts and pictures. How can this be traced?

Topic 4 Possibilities of comparative analysis: Is it possible to translate the otherness constructed in travelogues into comparable categories? What are the challenges, and which (new) possibilities do digital analysis methods offer?

Topic 5 Impact: How can we track the contemporary reception and subsequent significance of (individual) travel reports, aside from the number of their editions and translations?

The workshop takes place within the framework the FWF/DFG project ‘Travelogues: Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876—A Computerized Analysis’. An interdisciplinary approach is intended. The call is addressed to all researchers, regardless of research discipline. A peer-reviewed publication of the contributions is planned. The presentation languages are preferably English or German. Please send a proposal of approximately 250 words and a short CV to Doris Gruber.

Contact: Dr Doris Gruber (doris.gruber@oeaw.ac.at)

Further details: http://www.travelogues-project.info/cfp/

East Asia in Global Perspective: Transnational Movement & Exchange in the Age of Empire, c. 1850-1950, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (24-25 May 2019)

Deadline: 11 January 2019 The conclusion of the so-called ‘unequal treaties’ between Euro-American powers and East Asian states brought a growing number of foreigners to China, Korea and Japan. Treaty ports and foreign settlements such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin, Jemulpo, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama, as well as the British colony of Hong Kong and the German lease of Jiaozhou, developed into lively trading centres. The rise of Japanese imperialism in Korea and Taiwan added a further dimension from the late nineteenth century on. Competition, cooperation and conflict between different imperial and national projects found expression in multiple ways. This conference provides a forum to discuss the social, political and cultural implications of the Japanese and Euro-American colonial presence in East Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second World War.

In terms of historiographic praxis, this conference aims at cultivating a dialogue between the more established fields of British or French imperial history with those of emerging paths of historical enquiry such as German- and Luso-Asian Studies, the history of American-East Asian relations, or the study of Russian engagement with East Asia. In doing so, the conference aims to bring together scholars working in the fields of global, transnational and imperial history, East Asian Studies, and related disciplines, to explore the myriad ways in which both imperial powers and East Asian colonies and treaty ports were shaped by the colonial encounter.

With a strong focus on the cultural interactions and exchanges between imperial powers and East Asian societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, we welcome different disciplinary approaches that explore both formal and informal manifestations of empire, the legacy and afterlives of the Japanese and Euro-American presence in East Asia, as well as the different ways in which empire was reconstituted and colonial relationships reconfigured in the early post-war decolonization period.

We are particularly interested in papers that address the multiple forms of cooperation and competition that existed between different imperial and national visions in colonial East Asia, as well as the imbrications or comparisons between the Japanese and Euro-American powers themselves. However, proposals that examine

only one of these nations in China, Korea or Japan will also be considered. Papers can explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Competing visions of different imperial projects Foreign education, curricula, and international schooling Clubs, sport associations and other social/cultural institutions Expatriate communities, popular culture and associational life Trade networks, commercial links and the business world Foreign literary culture: popular reading, travel writing, theatre and drama Colonial print, visual and material culture: exhibitions, fairs, museums and libraries Missionary life, religious activity and spiritual culture International broadcasting, mass media, and the foreignlanguage press Cultures of intellectual ‘improvement’ and exclusion based on race, class or gender Influence of women, working class expatriates, indigenous and minority groups Public health, western medicine and the colonial environment Legal and administrative cultures Colonial and imperial identities: expressions of national and transnational belonging Science, technology and the pursuit of colonial knowledge

Please submit paper title, abstract of no more than 300 words, and a short biography to the conference email address. If you are submitting a proposal for a panel, please include an abstract for each paper (300 words), a summary of the panel theme (250 words), as well as a short biography of each panel speaker. All proposals should include your name, email address, and academic affiliation (if applicable).

Contact: Dr Barry Crosbie (eastasiaconferencehk2019@gmail.com)

Brave New Worlds: Early Modern Discoveries, SEDERI, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal (8-10 May 2019)

Deadline: 30 January 2019

Organised by University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)

We are pleased to announce that the 30th SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies) conference. Brave New Worlds: Early Modern Discoveries – addresses in the first instance the momentous challenges of the age and the sense of novelty that characterised the period’s exploration of seas, islands and continents. But ‘discovery’ also encompasses other encounters between self and world through the mediation of renewed systems of learning, like philosophy, philology, poetry, history or science. This conference focuses primarily on ideas and social practices around discovery and travel, such as cultural encounters, new geographies, overseas trade, otherness and identity; it also aims to reflect on a pioneering cultural poetics that fused traditional forms and new media to express the certainties, perplexities and contradictions of the age’s advancements.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers and round table discussions in English, on the following topics:

Travel writing and early modern geographies. Trade, traffic and exchange: material culture in Tudor and Stuart England. Building identities and discovering the alien in the early modern period. Cross-cultural encounters: self and other(s). Utopia(s) and other elsewheres. Early modern epistemologies: magic, philosophy, science. Anglo-Iberian relations and diplomacy. Textual explorations: early modern arts of discourse. Visual poetics: emblem books and iconography. Local and global discoveries. Negotiations of gender in early modern England.

New worlds for a new nation.

Proposals must be sent as an e-mail attachment (doc; docx; pages) to the email below before the deadline and contain: the author’s name and institutional affiliation; a short biographical note (100 words); the full title of the paper; a 200-word abstract; the author’s postal and electronic addresses; technical requirements for the presentation.

Contact: sederi2019@letras.ulisboa.pt

Further details: https:/sederi2019.wordpress.com/ Pilgrimages & Tourism, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (15-16 June 2019)

Deadline: 15 February 2019

Organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Pilgrimages are ancient practices of humankind and are associated with a great variety of religious, spiritual and secular traditions. In today’s world the number of visits to sacred sites such as Santiago de Compostela (Spain), La Virgen de Guadalupe (Mexico), Matka Boska Czetochowska (Poland), secular places such as Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, Eifel Tower in Paris, Hiroshima Peace Museum and virtual pilgrimages, facilitated by video and satellite links is growing. With them, tourism both individual and in groups has been steadily increasing and changing.

This conference seeks to explore, analyse and discuss the complex concepts of pilgrimages and tourism. What is a pilgrimage? Do pilgrimages contribute to the sense of community and belonging? Is tourism a transformative experience?  How do souvenirs, memorabilia and travelogues facilitate imagination of other people and places? 

Conference presentations will be related, but not limited, to:

History of pilgrimages and tourism Geography of pilgrimage and tourism Pilgrimages, tourism and religion Pilgrimages and theology Pilgrimages, tourism and philosophy Pilgrimages, tourism and literature Pilgrimages, tourism and media Pilgrimages, tourism and art Pilgrimages, tourism and economy Pilgrimages, tourism and politics Pilgrimages, tourism and culture Teaching tourism and pilgrimages

The conference will bring together scholars from different fields including philosophy, religion, theology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, art, economy, geography, cultural studies, political studies and others.

Submissions may propose various formats, including: Individually submitted papers (organised into panels by committee); Panels (3-4 individual papers); Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters); Posters. Proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent to the email below. Download a paper proposal form here.

Selected papers will be published in the post-conference volume.

Standard registration fee – 220 GBP; Student registration fee – 180 GBP.

Contact: tourism@lcir.co.uk

Further details: http://tourism.lcir.co.uk/

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, National Library ‘Đurđe Crnojević.’, Cetinje, Montenegro (27-28 June 2019)

Deadline: 1 April 2019

Organisers: Dr Marija Krivokapić & Dr Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević, Dept. of English Language & Literature, Faculty of Philology University of Montenegro

‘Home-Thoughts, from Abroad’ is the topic for the XV International Conference on Anglo-American Literary Studies on Anglo-American literary studies. The conference topic is taken from Robert Browning's poem of the same title. In this poem, the lyrical persona imagines what England, his/her home country, looks like in spring. Browning wrote the poem from his self-exile in Italy, when he, as many of his compatriots, early modernists and modernists, believed it to be morally imperative to interrogate the concept and the values of home, answering thus Heidegger’s concurrent fear that modernity is incapable of dwelling mostly due to alienation and technology. However, the momentousness of the topic comes through the global image of massive population shifts, on one, and the deterritorialization of home through digital media, on the other hand. Furthermore, as home is not only a particular physical space, but also a place in memory and a representational space, it has often been searched through cultural formations and rituals, individual names and bodies, and, thus, could be also found and founded in literature. Apart from this, the plurality of the title is meant to be an invitation to prospective attendees to explore various approaches and interpretations of this topic (not only literary, but also cultural, social, historical...), moving from the very broad to the more particular and circumscribed.

We are pleased to announce that our confirmed keynote speakers are Professor Kryštof Kozák, head of the Department of North American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic, and Shelly Oria, writer, New York, USA, author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 and the novella CLEAN, and editor of the upcoming anthology Imperfect Victims. She teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she lives. American poet, composer, performer and Torah teacher Alicia Jo Rabins (Portland, USA), winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize will talk about her poetry via skype.Abstracts of 300 words, including keywords, the author’s name, affiliation, and email, should be sent to Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević or Marija Krivokapić.

The conference fee is 80 euros payable upon registration. It includes conference material, the book of abstracts, refreshments, conference dinner and an excursion.

Cetinje is a cultural capital of Montenegro, and is not far from the airports in Podgorica and Tivat (Montenegro), Tirana (Albania), and Dubrovnik (Croatia). It offers a variety of accommodation styles, from short term apartment rentals, bed & breakfasts, to hotels.

Contact: Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević (alexmontenegro@t-com.me);Marija Krivokapić (marija13a@gmail.com)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Studies in Travel Writing, 22.2 (June 2018)

Articles:

- Writing the Northern Expedition, 1785–1793: Martin Sauer’s An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia (1802) (by Matthew W. Binney)

- Two women travellers across a contested landscape: Emily Georgiana Kemp and Yosano Akiko in Northeast China (by Daniela Kato)

- The pervasiveness of colonial identity in Lucie Cousturier’s travels to West Africa (by Georgy Khabarovskiy)

- Languages of return: Aimé Césaire and Dany Laferrière (by Jane Hiddleston)

- Humouring the conflict: Israel and Palestine in twenty-first century British and German travel writing (by Isabelle Hesse)

Interview:

- Interview with Nick Danziger (by Tim Hannigan)

Book reviews

- Women wanderers and the writing of mobility, 1784–1814; Minds in motion: imagining empiricism in eighteenth-century British travel literature (by Carl Thompson)

- Tourism, land and landscape in Ireland: the commodification of culture (by Gareth Roddy)

- Travel, modernism and modernity (by Andrew Thacker)

AWARDS & PRIZES

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2019

Deadline: 30 November 2018

For the fifth year running, the Hakluyt Society invites submissions for its annual Hakluyt Society Essay Prize. The award (or more than one, if the judges so decide) has this year seen an increase in value to a maximum total of £1000. The prize or prizes for 2019 will be presented, if possible, at the Hakluyt Society’s Annual General Meeting in London in June 2019. Winners will also receive a one-year membership of the Hakluyt Society. The Society hopes that the winning essay will be published, either in the Society’s online journal or in a recognised academic journal.

Eligibility criteria: The competition is open to any registered graduate student at a higher education institution (a university or equivalent) or to anyone who has been awarded a graduate degree in the past three years. Proof of student status or of the date of a degree must accompany any submission. Allowance can be made for maternity leave.

Scope and subject matter: Before considering the submission of an essay, entrants should visit the Hakluyt Society’s web-site to make themselves aware of the object of the Society and the scope and nature of its publications. Essays should be based on original research in any discipline in the humanities or social sciences, and on an aspect of the history of travel, exploration and cultural encounter or their effects, in the tradition of the work of the Society.

Essays should be in English (except for such citations in languages other than English as may appear in footnotes or endnotes) and between 6000 and 8000 words in length (including notes, excluding bibliography). Illustrations, diagrams and tables essential to the text fall outside the word count. Submissions should be unpublished, and not currently in press, in production or under review elsewhere.

Submission procedures and deadline: Essays should be submitted as email attachments in Word.doc format to The Administrator. The entrant’s name, address (including preferred email address), institutional affiliation (if any, with date of admission), and degrees (if any, with dates of conferment) should appear within the body of

the email, together with a note of the title of the submitted essay. The subject line of the email should include the words ‘HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE’ and the author’s name. By submitting an essay, an entrant certifies that it is the entrant’s own original work.

Selection procedure: The Judging Panel encourages innovative submissions that make an important contribution to knowledge, or a critical or methodological contribution to scholarship. The panel and selected reviewers will pay attention to the analytical rigour, originality, wider significance, depth and scope of the work, as well as to style and presentation. The panel comprises selected academic faculty from among past and present members of the Hakluyt Society’s Council, including the editorial board of The Journal of the Hakluyt Society.

The Prize Committee reserves the right not to award a prize, if no submission is judged to be of sufficient merit. The Committee’s decision will be announced in April 2019.

NOTE: Prize winners agree to acknowledge the receipt of their award in any future publication of the prize essay. In addition, they will be expected to contribute to the Society’s public dissemination as appropriate. This may include, but is not limited to, presenting a paper at a Hakluyt Society symposium (in which case travel expenses within the UK will be reimbursed) and contributing to the Hakluyt Society blog.

Contact: The Administrator (office@hakluyt.com)

Further details: www.hakluyt.com

PhD STUDENTSHIPS

Creative writing - emigration & immigration between Scotland & Australia, with particular emphasis on diasporic experience, School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture, Aberdeen University

Project Description: Immigration and Emigration are dominant features of our current global experience but they are foundational to the relationship between Scotland and Australia. Many Scots left Scotland to make a new home in Australia and arrived at the port of Fremantle near Perth and many modern Australians trace their origins to Scotland.

This PhD project focuses on the theme of emigration and immigration between Scotland and Australia (whatever the direction of travel) with particular emphasis on diasporic experience. Approaches might include creative writing which engages with the historical experience of emigration and immigration between the two countries, creative fiction or non-fiction that considers more recent experience, or a more literary exploration of existing works on the topic of Scottish-Australian diasporic experience.

The successful candidate will spend two years in the University of Aberdeen and one year (second year of supervised study) in Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Those wishing to apply are advised to contact Professor Lumsden before making a formal application.

Applicants should have (or expect to obtain) the equivalent of a UK first class or upper second class honours degree (and preferably a Masters degree) in English or Creative Writing.

If English is not your first language please visit the link for details of the requirements.

A research proposal is required and selection will be made on the basis of academic merit and the quality of the proposal. The proposal should be no more than 750 words and describe your intended approach to the topic. For creative projects it must be accompanied by a writing sample consisting of approximately 3000 words of prose or 120 lines of poetry.

Funding Notes: Fully funded studentship that includes an (international) tuition fee scholarship and stipend of £14,777 per annum in the UK (the first and third years) and AU$27,082 per annum in Australia (the second year). £1,500 will be available for outward and inbound travel to Perth. This funding does not make provision for the costs associated with visas.

Contact: Professor Lumsden (a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk)

Cultural & Historical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London is delighted to invite suitably qualified candidates with research interests in cultural geography, historical geography, or the GeoHumanities to apply for doctoral funding under the auspices of the AHRC's technē Doctoral Training Partnership and the ESRC's South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS).*

The Department of Geography has a long-standing reputation in cultural and historical geography and its staff currently take a leading role in a number of the sub-disciplines’ key bodies (e.g., the Historical Geography Research Group and the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG), journals (e.g., cultural geographies, Journal of Historical Geography, and GeoHumanities), and seminar series (e.g., the London Group of Historical Geographers). The Department is also home to the interdisciplinary Centre for the GeoHumanities. The Department has formal partnerships with the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and the University of Padua (Italy), providing the opportunity for PhD students, where appropriate, to undertake exchange visits as part of their studies.

The Group's blog, Landscape Surgery, details the activities of our postgraduate researchers: http://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/

We would welcome enquiries from students interested in working in the following areas: 

histories of geography; historical geographies of science; history of cartography; the geography of the book; histories of TRAVEL, tourism, and pilgrimage; cultures of exploration; heritage, landscape, and memory; collecting and collections; museum geographies; historical geographies of religion and sacred spaces; cultural and historical geographies of the Mediterranean, especially Greece and Cyprus; creative geographies; geographies of art and activism; creative experiments; geographies of air and atmosphere; elemental geographies; sonic geographies; citizen science; geographies of listening; feminist geographies of radio.

Interested candidates are invited to contact the Director of Graduate Studies (Admissions and Recruitment), Dr Innes M. Keighren to discuss supervisory possibilities.

* Applications to SeNSS and technē are governed by specific eligibility criteria (see, respectively, http://senss-dtp.ac.uk/application-faqs/ and http://www.techne.ac.uk/how-to-apply-for-a-techne-ahrc-studentship) and are dependent upon candidates applying successfully for admission to study at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Contact: Innes M. Keighren (Innes.Keighren@rhul.ac.uk)

Further details: https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/researchgroups/schg/home.aspx