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Conference: The Art of Travel 1500-1800: Invention, Tradition, Innovation
November 7, 2016 @ 9:00 am - November 8, 2016 @ 5:30 pm
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Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
Organized by Daniel Carey daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie
Monday 7 November
9.00 Registration and welcome (with coffee)
9.30-11.00 Session 1
Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University), ‘The Origins of the Grand Tour and the discovery of the arts’
Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), ‘Inventing the “Grand Tour”: an historiographical success story, between anticipation and nachleben’
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 2:
Gabor Gelleri (Aberystwyth University), ‘Dealing with God, trading with men: functions of travel advice in abbé Pluche’s pedagogical bestseller’
Juliette Morice (Université du Maine, France), ‘Diderot in the apodemic tradition’
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Session 3:
Jan Papy (KU Leuven), ‘Renaissance Humanists travelling in Italy: Lipsius on Rome, reading and seeing’
Paola Molino (University of Munich), ‘”Regions are entire walls, stations are single shelves, colonies and appendix will integrate the regions”: travel and cataloguing in Central Europe, 1570-1670′
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-17.15 Session 4:
Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), ‘How to be a true pilgrim’
17.15 Launch event and reception
The Ars apodemica online: a database of travel advice 1500-1850
Tuesday 8 November
9.00 coffee
9.30-11.00 Session 5:
Elizabeth Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library), ‘Traveller, agent, scholar, spy? Reading the information gathering of Elizabethans abroad’
Tünde Móré (University of Debrecen, Hungary), ‘Farewell to Wittenberg – valedictory poems of travel in the 16th century’
11.00-11.30 coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 6:
Katarzyna Bożeńska (University of Warsaw), ‘Peregrinari necesse? Theory of travel in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’
Kristi Viiding (University of Tartu), ‘Ars Apodemica in the 17th century in the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea’
13.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-4.00 Session 7:
John Gallagher (University of Cambridge), ‘Between theory and reality: language-learning in early modern English educational travel’
Sarah Goldsmith (University of Leicester), ‘Danger, risk-taking and the body: crafting masculinities on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour’
4.00-4.30 Coffee
4.30-5.15 Session 8:
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), ‘The Ars Apodemica and travel beyond Europe’
5.30 Book launch and reception:
Gabor Gelleri, Philosophies du voyage: visiter l’Angleterre aux 17e-18e siècles. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2016).