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

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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