poster image: Diane Meyer, "Sleeper Car Installation: Rodeo"

Points of Departure
GHF Exhibition, February 6–23, 2007

GRADUATE HUMANITIES FORUM

Travel
Seventh Annual Conference

Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk

22–23 February, 2007

Click here to download pdf of Conference Program.

Program Highlights
Thursday, 22 February

9:00a: Registration
9:30a: Welcome

10:15–11:15a
Session 1: Contemporary Geographies of the Self and the Other
Session 2: The Local and the Global in Traveling Ideas and Practices

11:30–12:45p
Session 3: War, Espionage, New Routes
Session 4: Voyagers and Seafarers

1:45–3:00p
Session 5: Where is Home?
Session 6: Travel Narratives: Negotiating Tradition and Identity
in the American Southwest

3:15–4:30p
Session 7: American Expeditions and Visions
Session 8: Women Writers on Travel and Identity

5:00–6:30p
Keynote Address:
Old Histories, New Itineraries

Friday, 23 February

10:00–11:15a
Session 9:
Music and Musicians in Motion
Session 10: Folklore on the Road

11:30–12:45p
Session 11: The Near East from Antiquity to Modernity
Session 12: Walking through Cities

1:45–3:00p
Session 13: Moving Art in Italy and the U.S.
Session 14: Tourism and its Effect on Space

3:15–4:30p
Session 15:
Sixteenth Century Travels
Session 16: Revisiting the Holy Land

5:00–7:00p
Points of Departure Exhibition, Fox Gallery, Logan Hall