Cultural Encounters

Charles Burdett is lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol and co-editor of European Memories of the Second World War (1999). He is currently working on representations of Africa in fascist Italy.

Andrew Thacker (Ulster), 'Journey with Maps: Travel Theory, Geography and the Syntax of Space', Charles Forsdick (Glasgow), 'Sa(l)vaging Exoticism: New Approaches to 1930s Travel Literature in French', Derek Duncan, 'Travel and Autobiography: Giovanni Comisso's Memories of the War', Mayte Gomez, 'Bringing Home the Truth about the Revolution: Spanish Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1930s', Jo Labanyi (Birkbeck), 'The Politics of the Everyday and the Eternity of Ruins: Two Women Photographers in Republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis 1933-37, Kati Horner 1937-38)', Charles Burdett, 'Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in Greece and Egypt', Helmut Peitsch (Cardiff), 'Tradition and Modernism in Gustav Rene Hocke's Travel Books, 1937-39', Sarah Wright (Hull), 'Dramatic Encounters: Federico Garcia Lorca's Trip to Cuba (1930)', Naomi Segal (Reading), 'Gide in Egypt 1939', Howard Booth (Birkbeck), 'Making the Case for Cross-Cultural Exchange: Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana', Nicola Cooper (Sussex), 'Investigating Indochina: Travel Journalism and France's Civilizing Mission', Loredana Polezzi (Warwick), 'Aristocrats, Geographers, Reporters...: Travelling through "Italian Africa" in the 1930s'.