Diwylliannau ‘Lleiafrifol’ a Theithio / ‘Minority’ Cultures and Travel

Rita Singer (Organiser)
Carol Tully (Member of programme committee)
Heather Williams (Member of programme committee)
Kathryn N. Jones (Member of programme committee)
Michael Cronin (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Kirmen Uribe (Invited speaker)
Ned Thomas (Invited speaker)

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference

Period	14 Sept 2015 → 16 Sept 2015
Event type	Conference
Location	Aberystwyth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandShow on map

Keywords

Minority cultures
travel writing
wales
Basque country
literature
lesser-used languages
translation
mobility studies

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This interdisciplinary conference interrogated the concept of ‘minority’ culture through the prism of travel and travel writing. In this context, the complex and often controversial notion of ‘minority’ might be defined as linguistic, cultural, ethnic or geopolitical. The conference theme emerged from our work on the project and broadened its scope to encompass encounters involving so-called ‘minority’ cultures from across the globe. The topic had particular currency in the light of events unfolding in Scotland and Catalonia at the time, where cultural identities were being renegotiated in relation to the hegemonic hierarchy of power, as well as those in Ukraine where competing minority identities struggled for cultural recognition against a backdrop of oppression and political disenfranchisement.

Related content

Research outputs
Introduction
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Minoritised Languages and Travel
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special Issue › peer-review
A Picture of a Country: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Continental Europeans
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Leisure, refuge and solidarity: messages in visitors’ books as microforms of travel writing
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Through Wales in the Footsteps of William Gilpin: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Early French Tourists, 1768–1810
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Accounts of Travel: Travel Writing by European Visitors to Wales
Research output: Other contribution
Land of Forges and Fire: Merthyr Tydfil in the 1800s
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany
Research output: Other contribution
Von Hay-on-Wye nach Blaenau Ffestiniog: Elmar Schenkels Reisen in Wales, 1974–2010
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
“Stock in der Hand / Löcher im Gewand / Wandern wir gar müßig / Durch das wunderbare Land”: Notes by European Travellers in Welsh Visitors’ Books
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Press/Media
Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit
Press/Media: Media coverage

Activities
Putting Wales on the Map: Using GIS to Uncover European Travel Routes, 1750-2016
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
In the Footsteps of European Travellers in Wales
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
European Travellers to Wales
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Picturesque Wales?: Illustrated travel accounts by continental Europeans
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Journey to the Past: Wales in Historic Travel Writing from France and Germany
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
For Wales, See England: German Visitors to Welsh Estates in the Nineteenth Century
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
A Picture of a Country: Illustrated Travel Accounts by European Travellers
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
European Travellers to Wales: A Short History of Picturing the Nation
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk