ASTENE Summer Online Conference
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July 2021

Call for Papers

Following the postponement of the 14th biennial ASTENE Conference to July 2022 and in light of the ongoing pandemic, we invite proposals for contributions to a smaller virtual conference.

Topics to be considered (but not limited to):

Accounts of travellers to Egypt, the Near East, Iran, North Africa and the historical territories of the Ottoman Empire
Accounts of travellers from the Middle East to other regions such as Europe, South and East Asia
Travel writing, including fiction, memoirs, diaries, guidebooks and journalism
The visual culture of travelling, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and other artistic ephemera
Critical, feminist and post-colonial approaches to Egyptology and Near/Middle Eastern travel studies
Histories of mobility, migration and diasporas of religious communities and other groups
Digital and other new media projects for understanding the history of travel

Proposals may be submitted either for individual presentations of 20 minutes or for panels of 3-4 speakers of 20 minutes each. Please include a biography of no more than 200 words, a presentation title and a 300-word abstract. Proposals should be submitted to conference.astene@gmail.com by 30 April 2021.

This event will be free, but contributors will be expected to join ASTENE if not already members and prior registration will be required; further details will be available in due course.

For further details and to view other ASTENE events, please visit

www.astene.org.uk