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Call for papers INALCO, Paris, 11-12-13 December 2008 Tropics of Travel 2. Encounters International Conference jointly sponsored by Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris and Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia - Université de Liège, Liège – SOAS, London The Conference is part of a wider project that will take the form of four international symposia which will be held in Venice (December, 2007), Paris (December, 2008), London (2009) and Liège (2010). Each symposium will be devoted to one of the following tropes: 1) Departures 2) Encounters 3) Utopias and Dystopias 4) Homes. The project Project Leaders: Frédéric Bauden (Université de Liège), Aboubakr Chraïbi (INALCO, Paris), Antonella Ghersetti (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia), Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS, London) Travel is arguably a central metaphor of man's search for the right place in the world that has grounding in and impact on reality. Accounts of travel, fantastic or real, at home or abroad, are a familiar subject in cultures and literatures worldwide. Travel has been a staple narrative motif in Arabic writings. Tropics of Travel will examine travel not simply as a process, but as a central trope, a figurative matrix that drives quest for knowledge, geographical discovery, historical narratives, religious accounts of pilgrimage, spiritual journeys of transcendence, official records of diplomatic missions, literary journeys of transformation, and cross-cultural dialogues. It will, more particularly, explore the importance of new forms of knowledge created through the mediation of travel in the definitions of identity, community and home. The Project will look at factual or fictional Arabic writings that take ‘travel' as its main theme or motif from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective so as to involve scholars of literature, geography, history, anthropology, religious studies, art, art history and cultural studies. Tropics of Travel, Part 2 : Encounters Scientific Committee: Frédéric Bauden (Université de Liège), Aboubakr Chraïbi (INALCO, Paris), Antonella Ghersetti (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia), Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS, London) Paris Organizer: Aboubakr Chraïbi (Inalco, Paris) The second conference (on encounters) will examine the impressions, material objects, animals, monuments, men and societies a traveler sets out to discover. It will focus on what occurs en route—by land, sea or any other means—that are in themselves worthy of the attention of the [...] Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula
