Traveling, Narrating, Comparing

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Comparing plays an important role in the dynamic Contact processes of knowledge-production and circula- Julian Gärtner tion in travel narratives. This conference focuses [email protected] on the relation between traveling and comparing regarding travel accounts in and from the Ameri- Dr. Marius Littschwager cas between the 18th to the 20th century. [email protected]

The symposium draws attention to forms and Subproject B03 "Comparing and Knowing practices of travel narratives that include both the World: European World Travel Narrati- imaginary voyages by authors such as Feni- ves from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth more Cooper and Jules Verne as well as ethno- Century" graphic writings by Henri Michaux and Claude Lévi-Strauss. As all genres of travel literature con- Web struct complex narratives, they come to open up www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288 TRAVELING, NARRATING, and cross multiple and diverse epistemic fields. @sfb_comparing COMPARING

The international conference wants to initiate a Venue Travel Narratives of the Americas from the transdisciplinary dialogue between scholars who Bielefeld University 18th to the 20th Century do research on different narratives and genres of Methoden 1 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2018 | Bielefeld University travel literature in various languages, and schol- 33615 Bielefeld ars who study situations of cultural contact and/ Building X or historiographies of travel; this dialogue will be Conference: Room B2-103 centered on the overarching topic of practices of Public Keynote: Room E0-001 comparing. 100 mm 100 mm 97 mm

THURSDAY, 31 JANUARY 2019 Lili Riettiens, University of Cologne: Comparing 10:00 Coffee Break Bodies – Constructing and Comparing (Supra-) 09:00 Arrival & Registration National Identities During a Journey From PANEL VI: COMPARING: FRONTIERS AND PRIN- Latin America to Europe (1837-1908) 10:45 CIPLES IN INTER-AMERICAN NARRATIVES Welcome Address by Kirsten Kramer and CHAIR: DIANA FULGER, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY 09:30 Walter Erhart, Bielefeld University 15:15 Coffee Break Jacob Birken, University of Kassel: America, PANEL I: ON METHODS AND THEORIES: PANEL IV: CONTACT ZONES AND COMPARING as Compared to its Principle. Harriet Martineau's 10:15 TRAVEL, DATA AND OBSERVATION 15:45 IN NORTH AMERICAN NARRATIVES Methodologies and Motives CHAIR: HELENE SCHLICHT, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY CHAIR: ALFRED BENDIXEN, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Astrid Haas, Bielefeld University: The Frontiers of Julia Stetter, Bochum University: Practices of Lee Schwenninger, University of North Carolina: Comparison: Migration, Slavery, and Capitalism Comparing After Tristes Tropiques: Michel Leiris, Difficult to Say in White-Man Words: Narratives in Frederick Law Olmsted’s A Journey Jaques Derrida, and Hubert Fichte of the 1787 Cheyenne Exodus Through Texas

Laurence Machet, Bordeaux Montaigne University: 11:45 Lunch Doris Gruber, Austrian Academy of Sciences: The Indian and the Southwestern American Friederike Riedesel and the Other. Semi- Wilderness: Contrasting Perceptions of Three PANEL VII: MAPS, ARCHITECTURE AND Automatized Text Analysis in Practice Travel-Naturalists 13:15 LITERATURE: GROUNDS OF COMPARISON CHAIR: MAHSHID MAYAR, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY 11:15 Coffee Break Julian Gärtner, Bielefeld University: On "L'Homme" and "Race": Comparing in the Political Sophia Bamert, University of California, Davis: PANEL II: ACTORS OF COMPARING AND Anthropology of Alexis de Tocqueville The City Novel as Travel Narrative: Mapping 11:45 INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS Chicago in Turn-of-the-Century Naturalism CHAIR: KIRSTEN KRAMER, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY 18:00 Break Daniela Ortiz Dos Santos, Goethe University Alan Lessoff, Illinois State University: James Bryce, KEYNOTE: ALAIN GUYOT, UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE: Frankfurt: Practices of Traveling Between William T. Stead, and the American City in Anglo- TRAVELING, COMPARING: ANALOGY AND EXPRESSIONS Architecture and Literature. American Encounters, American and Transatlantic Context 18:30 OF SIMILARITY IN PRE-NINETEENTH CENTURY New World Writing and the Modern Movement TRAVEL NARRATIVES Katharina King, University of Freiburg: Black Women chaired by Julian Gärtner Marius Littschwager, Bielefeld University: Writers Document 1930s America – the "Collaborative Ruins of Comparison: Pre-Colombian Architecture Narratives" of Margaret Walker, Dorothy West, and Zora 20:30 Dinner @ L'arabesque (self-paid), August-Bebel-Str. 47 in French and North American Travel Writing Neale Hurston for the FWP (1840-1900) FRIDAY, 01 FEBRUARY 2019 15:30 Coffee Break 12:45 Lunch PANEL V: POETRY AND (ITS) COMPARATIVE MODES 09:00 PUBLIC KEYNOTE: ALFRED BENDIXEN, CHAIR: ELISA SOPHIE RONZHEIMER, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PANEL III: PRACTICES OF COMPARING PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: SIGHTS AND SITES: 16:00 14:15 IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA VISION AND PLACE IN AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING CHAIR: SIMON SIEMIANOWSKI, BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY Paola Ravasio, Bielefeld University: This Train is chaired by Marius Littschwager Bound to Glory Gisele Eberspächer, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 18:15 Final Discussion Eleonora Ravizza, University of Bergamo: Poetry Cultural Comparison as a Distinguishing Element of and/as Metacritical Engagement. Margaret Atwood Ida Pfeiffer's Reports on Brazil 19:30 Dinner @ Jivino (self-paid), Obernstr. 51 and 19th Century Canadian Settlement Narratives