[H-verkko] Helsinki, HCAS Symposium: Early Modern Journeys: Practices and Everyday Experiences of Travel, 15–16 October, 2015

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HCAS Symposium: Early Modern Journeys: Practices and Everyday Experiences of
Travel, 15–16 October, 2015

Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 24
15.10.2015 klo 09:30 – 16.10.2015 klo 16:00
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Early Modern Journeys: Practices and Everyday Experiences of Travel, 1450–1800

Why did early modern men and women travel? Why was travel polemical in this
period? How was it a collective experience, shaped by cultural expectations,
social standing, education or the traveller’s career aspitrations? 

Taking into account both strong continuities and conjectural changes that
affected travelling in the early modern period, the aim of this symposium is to
rethink travel as an experience, its various forms and practices, and its social
and cultural contexts before it was shaped and regulated by the modes of mass
tourism and speedier transportation. 

Our objective is to gain insight into how travel experiences were articulated
and annotated in diverse literary and practical genres, and what types of new
sources we could engage when writing new cultural histories of travel. Topics
covered will include the encounter with exotic foods and foreign peoples,
polemics surrounding travel, and the ways in which travel was fashioned,
performed and given meaning in manuscripts, printed travelogues and drama.

http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/early-modern-journey/index.html 

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24 A, Seminar Room
136, Ground Floor.

Registration for this event is required but free of charge.  
Please register only by October 8,here:

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/63716/lomake.html

Tiedustelut: Eva Johanna Holmberg (eva.holmberg at helsinki.fi)
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