Travel, Displacement, Mobility: Canadian Voices and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Event Details
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Building: Traill College
Room: Bagnani Hall
Cost: $10
Come join us for a day of learning and discussion on Canadian travel writing and cross-cultural exchange at the symposium: Travel, Displacement, Mobility: Canadian Voices and Cross-Cultural Encounters, a symposium celebrating collaborations between Canadian and Brazilian scholars at Trent. Papers address issues such as:
- travel, displacement and mobility from a Canadian perspective;
- cross-cultural dialogues in literary or artistic contexts;
- travelling and addressing the foreign;
- gender and/or genre in Canadian travel writing
Confirmed speakers include: Eyitayo Aloh (Trent), Suzanne Bailey (Trent), Ana Lúcia Beck (UFRGS) Albert Braz (U Alberta), Rubelise da Cunha (FURG, Brazil), Eric Lehman (Trent), Zailig Pollock (Trent), Magali Sperling Beck (UFSC, Brazil), Margaret Steffler (Trent).
Members of the Public and Trent Community welcome.
The cost for the event is $10, and includes lunch. RSVP by 13 May to Trentsymposium@gmail.com