FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

Interdisciplinary and trans-national perspectives on British travel experience and its impact from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

Programme

Thursday 1 April 2010

• 9:00 – 10:00:  Coffee, registration and welcome 

• 10:00 – 11:30:Panel 1: Policy

1. Dr Matthew Day (English, Newman University College, UK), ‘The roots of Empire: Early modern travel collections and international politics’

2. Dr Catherine Baker (Modern Languages, University of Southampton, UK), ‘Beyond Sarajevo: British military travellers in the Balkans since 1992’

3. Dr Jane McDermid (History, University of Southampton, UK), ‘Elizabeth Marquarie (1775-1835): home and away’

• 10:00 – 11:30: Panel 2: Perception

1. Charles V. Reed (History, University of Maryland, US), ‘Royal Tourists and Empire, 1860-1901’

2. Phoebe Chow (History, London School of Economics, UK), ‘‘Looking in a window obscurely’: British understandings of China in the interwar period’

3. Dr Petra Rau (Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK), ‘This ‘strange enemy people’: British Writers on post-war Germany’

• 11:30 – 12:00: Refreshments

• 12:00 – 13:00:   Keynote:  Dr Pablo Mukherjee (English, University of Warwick, UK), ‘Disaster Travelling: A Victorian lineage’

• 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

• 14:00 – 15:30: Panel 3: Sentiment

1. Dr Kerry Sinanan, English, University of the West of England, UK), ‘The Feeling of an Officer’

2. Dr Stephen L. Keck (International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), ‘Globetrotters, Visitors and Civil Servants: Recovering British travel discourses in Southeast Asia’

3. Adam C. Hill (History University of Connecticut, US), ‘‘At Once a Scholar and a Wanderer’: D. G. Hogarth in the Levant, 1887-1910’

• 14:00 – 15:30:Panel 4: Images

1. Dr Peter Lyth (Business, Nottingham University, UK), ‘Carry on up the Nile: Film images and the British in Egypt’

2. Dr Christine Berderich (Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK), ‘‘Full Steam Ahead’ or ‘Looking Backwards Wistfully’: Modernity and Nostalgia in the British Home Tour of the 1920s’

3. Anna Bocking-Welch (History, University of York, UK), ‘Amateur Travel Films and British Decolonisation: Chislett’s endeavours to document the disappearing’

• 15:30 – 16:00: Refreshment

• 16:00 – 18:00: Panel 5: Identification

1. Prof. David Rock (History, UC Santa Barbara, US), ‘Anglophone Cultural Intermediaries in 19th Century Argentina’

2. Dr Damayanthie Eluwawalage (Human Ecology, State University of New York, US), ‘British Travellers in Colonial Western Australia in the 19th Century’

3. Justine Greenwood (History, University of Sydney, Australia), ‘Getting to know you: the tourism experiences of British migrants in Australia 1945-2010’

4. Dr Vlasta Vranjes (English, Fordham University in New York, US), ‘The Casaubons’ Roman Holiday: English Wives and Ancient Laws’

• 16:00 – 18:00: Panel 6: Palette

1. Dr Denis Longchamps (Concordia University, Canada), ‘Political Tourism: Elizabeth Simcoe and the Upper Canadian Colonial Project’

2. Dr Matthew Potter (History of Art and Film, University of Leicester, UK), ‘Schlepping under canvas: British art tourists to Germany, 1850-1900’

3. Prof. Catherine MacKenzie (Art History, Concordia University, Canada), ‘Shaping Shanghai:  British women artists and “their” city, 1915-1937’

4. Catherine Falconer-Gray (History, University of Wellington, New Zealand), ‘‘'Richly executed figures': representations of the Maori body byimperial traveller and artist, George French Angas, 1844’

• 18:00 – 18:30: Refreshments

• 18:30 – 19:30: Keynote: Prof. Jeremy Black (History, University of Exeter, UK), ‘Cosmopolitanism and Xenophobia: Britain, Travel and the Outside World’

• 20:00 – 22:00: Conference Dinner

Friday 2 April 2010

• 9:00 – 9:30: Refreshments

• 9:30 – 11:00:  Panel 7: Landscape

1. Prof. Stephanie Barczewski (History, Clemson University, US), ‘Country Houses, Travel and the Cosmopolitan Identity of the British Elite, 1680-1820’

2. Robyn Cooper (Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK), ‘Travel to Greater Britain and the Importance of Imperial Sentiment, 1880-1914’

3. Dr Andrew Law (Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK), ‘The role of classical Greco-Roman heritage in the construction of taste and distinction; The Grand Tour as a rite of passage for the young British aristocratic subject’

• 9:30 – 11:00: Panel 8: Recreation

1. Dr Felix Schulz (Historical Studies, Newcastle University, UK), ‘Casting a very strong spell: The British, Mountaineering, and the Alps, 1860s to 1938’

2. Chloe Jeffries (History, Oxford University, UK), ‘The Cyclists’ Touring Club and the Construction of France’

3. Prof. Matthew Taylor (Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK), ‘‘The World’s My Football Pitch’: Autobiographical Accounts of British Footballers Touring and Working Abroad from the 1920s to the 1950s’

• 11:00 – 11:30: Refreshments

• 11:30 – 12:30: Keynote: Dr Jill Steward (Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK), ‘The Business of Travel’

• 12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

• 13:30 – 15:00: Panel 9: Faith

1. Michael Talbot (History, S.O.A.S., UK), ‘British Restorationism in Ottoman Palestine, 1753-1842’

2. Alexander Lock (History, University of Leeds, UK), ‘Travellers to Spain in the 18th Century: The Spanish Tour of Sir Thomas Gascoigne and Henry Swinburne, 1775-1776’

3. Dr Ben Rogaly and Dr Becky Taylor (Geography, University of Sussex, UK), ‘‘Taking place’ and remembering home: Constructions of Britishness in narratives of rank-and-file military life abroad’

• 13:30 – 15:00: Panel 10: Definition

1. Prof. Maria Clara Paulino Kulmacz (Fine Arts, Winthrop University, US), ‘The ‘other’ among us’

2. Dr James Canton (Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK), ‘Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia in a Post-Colonial World’

3. Marc Alexander and Andrew Struan (English Language and History, University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Expressions of Civilization and Colonization in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary’

• 15:00 – 15:30: Refreshments

• 15:30 – 17:00: Panel 11: Construction

1. Dr Tom Neuhaus (Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK), ‘Shangri La Yetis: The appeal of Tibet and the Himalayas for British Travellers in the 20th Century’

2. Richard White (History, University of Sydney, Australia), ‘Vestigial Empire and Nascent Nation: British Tourists and Australia’s Past’

3. Andrew Elliott (Human and Environment Studies, University of Kyoto, Japan), ‘Writing ‘the Real’: Isabella Bird, Lafcadio Hearn, and the Japanese Interior’

• 15:30 – 17:00:Panel 12: Touring

1. Prof. Kenneth J. Perkins (History, University of South Carolina, US), ‘So Near and Yet So Far: British Tourism in Algiers, 1875-1914’

2. Dr Ross Balzaretti (History, University of Nottingham, UK), ‘British experiences of travel in Liguria, c. 1875-1914’

3. Alan Ashton-Smith (Humanities and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck – University of London, UK), ‘Intoxication on Postcolonial Tourism’

• 17:00 – 18:00: Wine reception

Delegate fees: Academic £45, Graduate student £20

Conference dinner: Academic £25, Graduate student £20 

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