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Fifth International and Interdisciplinary
Alexander von Humboldt Conference, 2009:
Travels Between Europe and the Americas
at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany,
July 27–31, 2009
Scholars from many disciplines, professors and graduate students interested in travels between Europe and the Americas convened in Berlin and discussed their research.
The complete conference program can be downloaded here as a pdf.
Topics
- Section A: Alexander von Humboldt
- Section B: Travels between Europe and Latin America (15th through 21st centuries)
- Section C: Travels between Europe and North America (15th through 21st centuries)
- Section D: Travel and Science: Measuring, Collecting, Imagining the World
- Section E: Travel Cultures, Practices and Economies: Discoveries, Expeditions, Tourism
- Section F: Traveling, Gender, Sexuality
- Section G: Traveling in Dictatorships: Colonialism, Caudillismo, Fascism, Communism
- Section H: Emigration and Exile
- Section I: Contemporary Travel Narratives
- Section J: Narrating Voyages: the Scholar-Traveler
- Section K: Theories of Mobility and Travel Literature
- Section L: Humboldt-Forum
Conference Documentation
- Pictures
Contacts
- Dr. Lilianet Brintrup: lib1@humboldt.edu
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Lubrich: lubrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Registration
Conference Venue
Freie Universität Berlin
»Rost- and Silberlaube«
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin, Germany
Opening
Monday, July 27, 2 p.m. (Registration), 4 p.m. (Opening Ceremony)
Henry Ford Bau
Garystraße 35
14195 Berlin
For further information on the city of Berlin please visit www.berlin.de
Organisers
Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Szondi Department of Comparative Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin, Germany
www.fu-berlin.de
Humboldt State University
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Arcata, California 95521, USA
www.humboldt.edu
