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New Perspectives on Travel

Nouveaux regards sur le voyage

Nuevas miradas sobre el viaje

Cultural Networks, Knowledge, Circulations, and Material Practices (19th and 20th Centuries)

Réseaux culturels, circulations de savoirs et pratiques matérielles (XIX-XX siècles)

Redes culturales, circulación de saberes y prácticas materiales (Siglos XIX-XX)

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Published on Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Abstract

In the last twenty years, there have been different approaches to the topic of travel from various disciplinary fields and perspectives. This symposium aims for a multidisciplinary approach to the topic of travel, understood as the deliberate movement of an individual through space, without being physically or psychologically forced or coerced. This symposium aims to be a space of dialogue and reflection about travel, its narratives, and its written and visual depictions. We aim to foster new approaches to travel understood in its specificity vis a vis the articulation of a disciplinary field (rather than its traditional understanding as a subsidiary object to other fields of study).

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Argument

In the last twenty years, there have been different approaches to the topic of travel from various disciplinary fields and perspectives. As an example, we could trace a potential nonlinear itinerary from works such as Mary Louise Pratt’s (1997) studying European travel writings vis a vis the consolidation of imperialism ; continuing with Beatriz Colombi’s (2004) focused on what she defines as the “intellectual trip” in 19th Latin America ; along with the countless works that highlight the relevance of transatlantic relationships in terms of networks and knowledge circulation. Sylvain Venayre (2006) analyzes the trope of travel from a cultural history standpoint, and Pura Fernández, in No hay nación para este sexo : La Re(d)pública transatlántica de las Letras : escritoras españolas y latinoamericanas (1824-1936) (2015), traces the intellectual and affective networks and webs of knowledge along Latin American and Iberian women in the transit to the 20th century.

This symposium aims for a multidisciplinary approach to the topic of travel, understood as the deliberate movement of an individual through space, without being physically or psychologically forced or coerced. Therefore, we consider the traveler as a subject that transits through a place during a specific time, with the motivation of arriving at a specific destination which can turn out to be unexpected. The traveler undergoes a physical, emotional, and intellectual experience that suspends her or his relation to the world. Our approach to travel concerns travelers’ written and visual narratives about places, encounters, vital and sensorial experiences ; as well as their practices, depictions, knowledge, territories, and landscape they transit (and resignify) while in transit.

We propose an understanding of “travel” as a field of study not limited to the action of moving or being transported from one place to another. On the contrary, we conceptualize travel as movement in space and time that also constitutes an encounter with strangeness or identification. Departures imply forms of rupture as well that put on hold the ordinary world of the traveler, re-organize it, and re-signify it, insofar as they are related to the intensity, immersion, and duration of the experience for the individual who travels.

Travel is also an encounter with knowledge, representations, bodies, sensitivities, and fears constituent to the traveler, the persons, and landscapes they encounter. Given their diversity, these factors determine the assimilation or rejection of the encounter, and, foremost, the meanings and transformations they trigger. We understand travel as a conscious, organized, and coherent arrangement of cognitive, sensorial, affective, and evaluative factors. Thus, travel is a temporal, spatial, social event that conveys gender and cultural marks. Such aspects are influential for the traveler, the society and/or the environment that receives them.

To give an account of their travel, travelers must resort to words and images to communicate their experiences. Such action introduces a distance or mediation with respect to the experience lived during the trip. Every travel implies a series of dislocations and translations, so that the travelers behave in part, like a mediator and, also, like a creator of new realities.

This symposium aims to be a space of dialogue and reflection about travel, its narratives, and its written and visual depictions. We aim to foster new approaches to travel understood in its specificity vis a vis the articulation of a disciplinary field (rather than its traditional understanding as a subsidiary object to other fields of study).

The topics include but are not limited to the following :

  • Travel and intersectionalities : gender, race, and class.
  • Travel and « alterity » : reflections and problematizations to the classical notions about travel.
  • Landscapes and travel : depictions and (re)constructions.
  • Travel, bodies, sensorialities, emotions.
  • Transformations and dislocations : approaches to travel as an epistemological process.
  • Travel and press : circulation of knowledge and ideas.
  • Travel and correspondence : affective and intellectual networks.
  • Translation : intercultural travel, displacement, dislocations and mediations.

Submission guidelines

The languages of the symposium are Spanish, French, and English.

In order to participate, submit a 250 words proposal to the emails : enrique.fernandez-domingo@univ-paris8.fr, lmoralesp@pucp.edu.pe and ines.detorres@fic.edu.uy

before 15th of December

Your submission consists of a Word document including :

  1. Title of the presentation.
  2. 250 words abstract.
  3. Topic (considering the thematic lines mentioned above).
  4. Name, last name and academic degree.
  5. Academic affiliation.
  6. Biographical information (no more than 6 lines).

Calendar

  • Symposium dates : October 2nd and 3rd, 2025 at Université Paris 8
  • Deadline for submission : December 15th, 2024.
  • Notifications of acceptance or rejection : February 15th, 2025.

Organizing committee

  • Enrique Fernández Domingo (Université Paris 8) (Francia)
  • Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) (Perú)
  • Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República) (Uruguay)
  • Apoyo técnico/Soutien technique/Technical support
  • Camilia Giuria Farias (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
  • Julia Celeste Castillo Vaca (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
  • Jimena Moscoso Segovia (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

Scientific committee

  • André Pereira Botelho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
  • Vanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame)
  • Marcel Velázquez Castro (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)
  • Dalila Chine (Université Paris Nanterre)
  • Javier Pérez Siller (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)
  • Mariana Di Cio (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

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PRATT, Mary Louise, Ojos imperiales : literatura de viajes y transculturación, Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1997.

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VENAYRE, Sylvain, « Le voyage, le journal et les journalistes au XIXe siècle », Nouveau Monde éditions, « Le Temps des médias », n° 8, 2007, pp. 46-56, https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-temps-des-medias-2007-1-page-46.htm

VENAYRE, Sylvain, « Le voyage : un champ de recherches ? », Hypothèses, 2014/1 17| pp. 69-74, https://www.cairn.info/revue-hypotheses-2014-1-page-69.htm

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ZYGMUNT, Karolina, “¿Por qué tiene sentido hablar de los sentidos ? : el análisis de las experiencias sensoriales como perspectiva investigadora del relato de viaje”, Rilce. Revista De Filología Hispánica, 40 (1), 2023, pp. 356-374, https://doi.org/10.15581/008.40.1.356-74

Places

  • 2 rue de la liberté
    Saint-Denis, France (93526)

Event attendance modalities

Full on-site event


Date(s)

  • Sunday, December 15, 2024

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Keywords

  • voyage, représentation, déplacement, expérience

Contact(s)

  • Enrique Fernandez Domingo
    courriel : enrique [dot] fernandez-domingo [at] univ-paris8 [dot] fr

Information source

  • Enrique Fernandez Domingo
    courriel : enrique [dot] fernandez-domingo [at] univ-paris8 [dot] fr

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To cite this announcement

« New Perspectives on Travel », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/122qn

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