The Grand Tour at a Crossroads?

AAH 2009: Intersections

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
2 - 4 April 2009

In the past decade, the Grand Tour has emerged as a productive site for
innovative methodological and theoretical work in art history, as well as
a crossroads where art history has intersected literary studies,
archaeology, history, and aesthetics. In this sense, the 'intersections'
of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travellers, antiquarians, and
collectors has found a mirror in the interdisciplinary approaches which
have defined the work of twentieth- and twenty-first century scholars.

This session aims to take the measure of the Grand Tour in the context of
newly developing models for theorising transnational and imperial contact,
and in light of an expanding critical literature which considers how
national and gender identities might be seen to take form in relation to
the spaces, experiences, and objects encountered through travel. While we
invite papers that examine the Grand Tour in its broadest definition, we
particularly welcome contributions which engage the eighteenth-century
phenomenon and its nineteenth-century afterlives, and which draw upon
innovative methodological and theoretical models.

For more details please see the AAH website:

http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/

http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/index.php

Please send 250-word abstracts to:

Sarah Betzer sbetzervirginia.edu
University of Virginia

Douglas Fordham df2pvirginia.edu
University of Virginia

Deadline for Proposals: 10 November 2008

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Sarah Betzer
Assistant Professor
McIntire Department of Art
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400130
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4130
U.S.A.

phone: 434.982.2345
fax: 434.924.3647