RIN members, their students and colleagues with research interests in travel images and narratives might be interested in two recent CfPs.

‘Magazines on the Move: North American Periodicals and Travel’

Friday, 22 September 2017

Nottingham Trent University

This one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Travel Writing will examine the relationship between North American travel writing and the periodical format. The conference organisers have named ‘visual representations’ as a strand that is particularly welcome.

Proposals of c.200 words should be sent to ctws@ntu.ac.uk by 28 July 2017. Postgraduates are encouraged to submit proposals.

‘New Voices 2017-18: Art and Movement’

Thursday, 11 January 2018

University of Birmingham

The Association of Art Historians (AAH) invites proposals for this one-day postgraduate research symposium on any aspect of art and movement. The symposium will explore a range of interconnected themes, including:

• Representations of movement or its impact on a work of art’s function and form
• The lives and works of artists abroad, including immigrants, expatriates and refugees
• Networks of trade and circulation
• The impact of globalisation on the production of art, its curation and the art market
• The restitution of art and cultural objects
• Non-movement, i.e. art or artists that resist or are denied movement

Abstracts of a maximum of 250 words, along with a 150-word biographical note, should be submitted to artmovement2018@gmail.com by 4 September 2018.