“Poetry, place, movement”: A joint LILAe symposium organized by the Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS) and the English Department

Often seen as distinct from one another, poetry and travel writing offer ways to rediscover place from different angles. In this symposium, we want to identify and analyze some of the perspectives travel writing and poetry can bring to an understanding of place and how these perspectives may intersect with one another. How does travel writing deploy a poetics of place? How does poetry offer readers a way of thinking about the pleasures, ethics and imaginaries of travel, distance and proximity?  How does movement – across space, sentences and lines of verse – unsettle ideas of belonging?

Organizers: Paula Henrikson (paula.henrikson@littvet.uu.se), Daniel Kane (daniel.kane@engelska.uu.se), Christina Kullberg (christina.kullberg@moderna.uu.se)

For more information (programme and abstracts), see the symposium's website.