I love the friendliness of the French city of Lille, where I'm giving a paper on Mapping Literary Walks as part of an interesting panel entitled "Travel Literature, Cultural Exchange and Identity Construction"
-- Peter Arnds (Dublin), Mapping Literary Walks: Slow Travel and Identity Construction
-- Mirja Riggert (Freiburg), Narrating the Self in Digital Travel Literature: Constructions of Feminine Identity in Travel Blogs
-- Samuel Agbamu (London), Romanità and nostalgia: Italian travel writing in Libya and Tunisia, 1905-1912
-- Anja Burghardt (Munich): A “bird’s eye view” as a travelogue perspective
-- Martina Kopf (Mainz), Knowledge transfer and cultural exchange: Sophie von La Roche’s “travel diaries”
-- Aglaia Iankovskaia, (St. Petersburg), Ibn Battuta, His Muslim Self and the Non-Muslim Other
-- Jonathan Lawrence (Oxford), Multiple Identities: An Arab in the New World’s Identity Manipulation
(The 8th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature, Lille 26-30 August 2019.)