Travelling Identities is an interdisciplinary symposium which aims to address these issues through the examination of a broad range of historical periods, geographical areas and travel practices. We welcome papers addressing – but not restricted to -- the following themes:

• Nomadism in the transnational age
• Travel writing and psychogeography
• Acculturation and cosmopolitanism
• Self-fashioning and the travelling subject
• Imaginative landscapes and the poetics of space
• The ethical traveller and eco-criticism
• Gendered travel practices
• Displaced persons: the migrant as traveller

Please send an abstract of 200-250 words to bianca.leggett@gmail.com or alan.mcnee1@btinternet.com for April 10th. Papers should last approximately 15 minutes.

Saturday 18th June
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
Birkbeck College