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Sea Narratives: a Travel and Mobility Studies network symposium

11:00 - 17:00, Fri, 24 Jan '14 Export as iCalendar

Location: IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House

Sea Narratives: a Travel and Mobility Studies network symposium

This half-day symposium provides a forum for interdisciplinary exchange on the theme of "sea narratives", looking at how the sea has figured as an important site in different cultural and geographical contexts. The day will run from 11-5pm and feature the following papers:

Jon Anderson (Cardiff): 'Exploring the space between words and meaning: knowing the relational sensibility of surf spaces'

Will Wright (Sheffield): 'Encountering the tsunami: the sea, memory and communities of practice in south-eastern Sri Lanka'

Emma Spence (Cardiff): '"You can't be on a boat and not explode when you get to land". A study of maritime mobility in the South of France'

Michael Harrigan (糖心TV): 'Narrating the early modern French sea voyage to Asia: trajectory and text'

Elodie Duché (糖心TV): '"A Sea of Stories": Narratives of Capture at Sea During the Napoleonic Wars"

Barbara Franchi (Kent): "Travelling across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt’s Sea Narratives"

Full programme and registration is at - registration is free (including lunch) but please fill in the online form.

Further information: Sea Narratives

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