Call for Papers

astene

The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), was established in 1995, and formally founded in 1997. The Association encourages and promotes learning with particular reference to the history of travel and travellers from earliest times in Egypt and the Near East including Greece and the Ottoman Balkans. ASTENE brings together anyone interested in the subject, whether a professional academic or not, across a wide spectrum of nations and subject areas.

In 2005 ASTENE holds its fifth biennial conference at Hulme Hall, Manchester University 14-18 July. This is the first call for papers for this conference. Among the many subjects upon which we look forward to receiving papers are:

Connections between Manchester, Liverpool and the Near East
The overland journey from Constantinople to Baghdad and the Persian Gulf
Islamic scholar-travellers
European scholar- travellers
Travellers and the Haj
Travellers and pilgrims to St Katherine’s Convent, Sinai
Accounts of Athens and travel in Greece
Travellers to Jerusalem
Travellers from the East
Travellers to Cyprus and through Malta
Travel writers and writing and novels of travel
European artists – Women artists – Scientists and naturalists – Surveyors and map-makers
The Red Sea and the Suez Canal
Missionaries’ travel
The impact of steam power on travel to the East – Railway travel
Egypt as a winter resort – The growth of hotels – The impact of tourism

We are also interested in papers on such individual travellers as Egeria – George Sandys – Ida Hahn-Hahn – John Mason Cook – Lady Herbert – Lady Franklin – Alexander Kinglake – Harriet Martineau – Frederick Norden and other Scandinavian travellers – Reverend Samuel Manning – W.H. Bartlett – Christopher Wordsworth in Greece – Mary Seacole—John Lloyd Stephens – Bayard Taylor – Frederic Caillaud – Lord Castlereagh – Alexandra Tinne – Domenico Frediani – Baron Sack – Charles-Theodore Frere and many others….

Please send your paper title and your 100 word abstract to the Conference Secretariat (info@oxconf.co.uk or to 57 Plantation Road, Oxford OX2 6JE) preferably before 31 March 2005. The closing date for offers of papers is 1st May 2005.Late offers will be considered but we may not be able to include them.