Conferences

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THE MEDITERRANEAN IN TRAVELOGUE LITERATURE

Udine, 3–4 October 2024

Organising partner institutions

● Università degli studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature, comunicazione, formazione e società (Anna Maria Perissutti)

● Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana (Jiří Měsíc)

● Sveučiliště u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za zapadnoslavenske jezike i književnosti (Matija Ivačić)

● Moravian Library in Brno (Petr Žabička)

● Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geoinformatics (Vít Voženílek) and Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech Studies (Jiří Hrabal)


The conference is being held as part of the project Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities; (DIGEOCAT & Lib.; Cooperation partnership in higher education Erasmus+, 2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765)

Programme

THURSDAY 3. 10. 2024

14.00–18.00 (English)

Institutional greetings; Introduction to the project (Jiří Hrabal, Palacký University Olomouc)

14.30 – Moderated by Anna Maria Perissutti (University of Udine)

  • Maps and Myths: The Dual Geographies of British Travelogues in 19th-Century Southern Italy – William Bainbridge (University of Hertfordshire)
  • Between Land and Sea: German Travellers Discovering the Mediterranean – Laura Balbiani (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan)
  • Writing Travel: for a Geographical Approach to Travel Literature – Davide Papotti (University of Parma)

Discussion

16.00 – Coffee break

16.30 – Moderated by Anna Maria Perissutti (University of Udine)

  • Pavel Durdík and Bullfights (1896)Jiří Měsíc (University of Granada)
  • Travelling off the Beaten Track around 1900. Czech travels to Spain and the margins of Southern Europe – Sarah Lemmen (Complutense University of Madrid)
  • Beyond the Horizon. Grand tours of Central-European early modem elites mapped and visualized – Eva Chodějovská (Moravian Library in Brno)

Discussion

20.00 – Dinner

FRIDAY 4. 10. 2024

9.00–10.15 (English)

Moderated by Jiří Měsíc (University of Granada)

  • From Printed Travelogues to Spatial Databases: concept and development – Vít Voženílek, Radek Barvíř, Jakub Koníček (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Visions of the South: Naples, Pompeii and Ischia in Czech Travelogues from the second half of the 19th Century – Gaia Seminara (Orientale University of Naples)
  • Two types of travellers to the Holy Land at the turn of the 19th and 20th Century – David Jirsa (Palacký University Olomouc)

Discussion

10.15 – Coffee break

10.45–13.00 (Italian)

Moderated by Francesco Visentin (University of Udine)

  • Narrare i contatti interculturali: Alberto Fortis e gli intellettuali carniolani – Irena Prosenc (University of Ljubljana)
  • Il diario di viaggio per mare di Simon Alois Tudecius de Monte Galea – Jiří Hrabal (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Lettura imagologica di “Bazzecole di viaggio” di Antun Nemčić – Dubravka Dubravec Labaš (University of Zagreb)
  • L‘immagine dell‘Africa negli scritti di viaggiatori italiani tra Ottocento e Novecento – Fabiana Savorgnan, Cergneu Di Brazzà (University of Udine)
  • “Leggere” Venezia con gli occhi di tre viaggiatori cechi di fine Ottocento – Anna Maria Perissutti, Francesco Visentin (University of Udine)

Discussion

13.00 – Lunch

14.30-16.30 (Czech)

Moderated by David Jirsa (Palacký University Olomouc)

  • Ideologizovaný cestopis: Macharův obraz Říma v dobovém kontextu – Jana Vrajová (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Obraz Kréty a Kypru v českých cestopisech do Palestiny v 15.– století – Jana Kolářová (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Istrie v českých cestopisech z 19. století – Matija Ivacić (University of Zagreb)
  • Cesty českých cestopisců konce 19. století do Řecka a Athén – Suzana Kos (University of Zagreb)
  • Stylistické vrstvy v díle Karla Čapka “Výlet do Španěl“ (1930) – Jose Alejandro Calero Díaz, (University of Granada)

Research into representations of intercultural contacts 
in Czech 
travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities. 
2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765