WORKSHOP

Travel Writing
Practice, Pedagogy and Theory
24-25 February 2011

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Criticalattentiontotravelwritinghasgrownsignificantlyoverthelastthreedecades.Describedasagenre that defies categorization, travel texts have long unsettled the conventions of literature, anthropology, history, and geography. Yet despite the varied ways of investigating travel narratives, studies agree on essential elementsthe motif of departures and arrivals, the traversal of space, the contact/clash of cultures, the inner/outer journey, the foregrounding of the strange visvis the familiar. These have been mined,largelythroughthelensofliteraryandculturalstudies,forinsightstheycanprovideintostructures ofpower,mobility,representation,knowledgeproduction,culturaldialogueand,morerecently,thetheme ofreconciliation. As the recent years witnessed the formal establishment of travel writing studies into the academe, there has emerged a greater need to explore the varied facets underlying the genres production, and how they bear on each other. This has become more urgent as the interest in the phenomenon of travel itself has necessarily been imbricated in more current inquiries such as globalization, migration, tourism, gender studies, digitalization,and international studies. Alongside this development isa keener awareness of how the practice, pedagogy and theorizing of travel narratives are no longer perceived as distinct from each other if more socioculturally responsive, rewarding and innovative ways of articulating travel experiences aretobeencouraged. This workshop addresses the need to create more productive occasions into the critical inquiry of travel texts through a dialogue among writers, teachers and theorists. It is hoped that by articulating issues thought to be loosely related from each other, new sites of interaction, even collision, can be teased out through the exchange. It also aims to explore how debates assumed to be integral in earlier studies of travel texts may unravel into new strands of investigation as the global political and economic shifts that highlightAsiasriseareconsidered. Participating in the workshop are awardwinning writers, leading figures in the study of travel writing, and academicsworkingonrelatedfields. CONTACTDETAILS Organisers: ProfChuaBengHuat AsiaResearchInstitute&DepartmentofSociology,NationalUniversityofSingapore AssocProfDinahRomaSianturi AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore Secretariat: MsValerieYeo AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore 469ATowerBlock,Level10,BukitTimahRoad,Singapore259770 Email:valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg Tel:(65)65165279 Fax:(65)67791428
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THURSDAY,24FEBRUARY2011
09:0009:15 09:1509:30 REGISTRATION&REFRESHMENT INTRODUCTORYREMARKS CHUABengHuat LeaderoftheCulturalStudiesinAsiaCluster,AsiaResearchInstitute, DepartmentofSociology,NationalUniversityofSingapore DinahRomaSIANTURI AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore 09:3011:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:0011:30 11:3013:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:0014:00 14:0015:30 14:00 BettyHAGGLUND NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK& UniversityofBirmingham,UK StephanieElizondoGRIEST UniversityofIowa,USA VicenteGarciaGROYON DeLaSalleUniversityManila,Philippines KyokoNAKAJIMA Novelist,Japan RobinHEMLEY TheUniversityofIowa,USA PhilipHOLDEN NationalUniversityofSingapore SESSION1WRITINGSELFANDTRAVEL Chairperson:CHUABengHuat TheTravelWriterasInfiltrator DeathinaTimeofWar:Maugham,Travel,Writing DISCUSSION TEABREAK SESSION2PERMEABLEBOUNDARIES Chairperson:NaokoSHIMAZU TraversingFictionandNonfictioninTravelWriting TravelJournalsandFiction DISCUSSION LUNCH SESSION3THEEVEOFDEPARTURE:WOMENSTRAVELWRITINGS Chairperson:TinekeHELLWIG The'Bricolage'ofTravelWriting: ABakhtinianReadingofNineteenthCentury Women'sWritingsaboutItaly WaywardWomen,OntheRoadandOnthePage DISCUSSION TEABREAK SESSION4ASIANJOURNEYS Chairperson:LeoCHING LilawatiKURNIA UniversitasIndonesia NaokoSHIMAZU NationalUniversityofSingapore ZHENGYi NationalUniversityofSingapore TravelWritingonIndonesiaandbyIndonesians WarDiariesasTravelWriting:JapaneseConscriptsand theirDiscoveryofJapanintheRussoJapaneseWar XuXiakeandXiakeYouji DISCUSSION ENDOFDAYONE BUSTRANSFER Pleasegatheratthelobbyforthebustransfertodinnervenue WORKSHOPDINNER (ForSpeakers,Chairpersons&InvitedGuests) BUSTRANSFERBACKTOHOTEL

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09:1509:30 09:3011:00 09:309 10:00 10:30 11:0011:30 11:3013:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:0014:00 14:0015:30 14:00 TimYOUNGS NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK CarolE.LEON UniversityofMalaya,Malaysia

FRIDAY,25FEBRUARY2011
REGISTRATION&REFRESHMENTS SESSION5MOVINGDISPUTEDBORDERS Chairperson:ThongchaiWINICHAKUL EthicalCommitment:TravelWritingandCritics TravelLinesandPlacesofBelonging DISCUSSION TEABREAK SESSION6TOWARDSAGLOBALITINERARY Chairperson:PeterMAROLT EddieTAY TheChineseUniversityofHongKong DinahRomaSIANTURI NationalUniversityofSingapore Encounters,StereotypesandtheCosmopolitan Imagination:TravelWritingfromSingapore FromColonialtoCosmopolitanVisions: DetoursinTravelTheory DISCUSSION LUNCH SESSION7OFTHESACREDANDPROFANE Chairperson:MaureenHelenHICKEY AnaMariaTheresaP.LABRADOR NationalMuseumofthePhilippines JoannaClaireCOOK NationalUniversityofSingapore PilgrimageorTourism:WhatsTheDifference? 21stCenturyMassVisitstoSacredSpacesandtheir ImplicationsonHeritagePreservation Shopping,MeritmakingandMeditating: SpiritualTourisminContemporaryThailand DISCUSSION CLOSINGREMARKS DinahRomaSIANTURI AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore ENDOFDAYTWO TEABREAK BUSTRANSFERBACKTOHOTEL

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TheTravelWriterasInfiltrator
RobinHEMLEY Director,NonfictionWritingProgram,TheUniversityofIowa NonfictionEditor,TheIowaReview Editor,Defunct(Defunctmag.com) robinhemley@uiowa.edu
Thispaperwillexaminethefraughtspacebetweenoutsiderstoa culture,and howwritersthroughoutthecenturies havegainedaccessandinsight intoculturesnottheirown.ThepaperwillalsoexploretherelationshipoftheSelfto thecountryofexplorationwhileinthepast,thenotionoftheSelfwasconsideredastableidentity,thatscertainly notthecaseinthe21stcentury,andinmanyregards,theCountryoftheSelfiswhatthetruetravelerexplores.Inmy discussion wellexamine culturaloutsiders who becomeobsessedwith a culture not their own(myself inrelationto the Philippines), cultural spies such as Victorian writer Sir Richard Burtons infiltration of Mecca in the 19th century, and former insiders (expats and migrs) looking back at the land of their birth, as in Luis Francias book about the Philippines, Eye of the Fish. Other authors discussed will be Jan Morris, James HamiltonPaterson, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri. In an ever more globally accessible world, the audience for the travel writer has jumped the tracks instead of an assumed audience back home, the contemporary travel writers audience and popularity might include and even be made up mostly of the people to whom hes a foreigner, as was the case when I wrote my Dispatches From Manila column for McSweeneys, and I soon found an audience in the Philippines and in the Filipino Diaspora. The value for the Filipino audience was the opportunity to have aspects of their culture reflected backhonestlyandrespectfullybyaninformedoutsider.ThevaluetomyselfwasimmeasurableinthewayIwasable to interrogate my own notions of culture, politics, and where and when I as an outsider could take a seat at the table. Robin Hemley is the author of seven awardwinning books of nonfiction and fiction, including Invented Eden: The Elusive,DisputedHistoryoftheTasaday;TurningLifeintoFiction,DoOver:InWhicha FortyEightYearOldFatherof Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness, The Last Studebaker: A Novel, and two short story collections. His book on Immersion Writing, Out in TheWorldwillbepublishedbyTheUniversityofGeorgiaPressnextyear,aswillanewvolumeofshortstories.Heis the Director of The Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa, and teaches in the lowresidency MFA Programs at City University in Hong Kong and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has won many awards including a GuggenheimFellowship,andhisworkhasbeenwidelyanthologized.

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DeathinaTimeofWar:Maugham,Travel,Writing
PhilipHOLDEN EnglishLanguage&LiteratureandUniversityScholarsProgramme NationalUniversityofSingapore ellhpj@nus.edu.sg
Overthelast twoyearsIvebeenworkingon aprojectthatwilleventuallyresultinabiographicalaccountofthelife of the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham was an accomplished traveler and travel writer, and indeed probably never spent a calendar year in a single location from the age of sixteen to his death at ninetyone in 1965. Biographies of Maugham have often focused on his sexuality, attempting to discover the truth of self hidden beneath the elaborate fabrications and thin fictionalizations of his published writing. In rereading Maugham, Ive become more interested in the way he consciously, through the cultivation of celebrity, made his life into a work of art:howhetransformedepisodesoftravelintojourneys.Indoingso,Ivealsomovedfromapostcolonialcritiqueof Maughamwhich I think is important, but perhaps increasingly less intellectually relevantto considering how his workscirculatedamongaglobalreadingpublic.Inmypaper,afterabriefframingdiscussion,Illreadasectionofthe biography I am writing, which centers on the death of Maughams secretary and partner, Gerald Haxton, and which is told using a motif of intersecting journeys. In exploring the possibilities of narrativization offered by Maughams life, Im curious about the manner in which approaching biography as an exercise in travel writing helps us reconceptualizebiographyitselfasagenre. Philip Holden researches life writing and Southeast Asian writing in English, often with a focus on issues relating to genderandmulticulturalism.HeistheauthorofAutobiographyandDecolonization:Modernity,Masculinity,andthe NationState (2008) and coauthor of The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English (2009), as well as articles in Postcolonial Studies, Interventions, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Biography, Life Writing, Philippine Studies and Textual Practice. His present research examinestheplaceoftheshortstoryasaglobalformunderdecolonization,andheisalsodoingpreliminaryworkon aliterarybiographyofW.SomersetMaugham.

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TraversingFictionandNonfictioninTravelWriting
VicenteGarciaGroyon DepartmentofLiterature,DeLaSalleUniversityManila,Philippines groyon@gmail.com
Contemporary nonfiction routinely adopts techniques traditionally used in the writing of fiction as a way of making realitycome aliveonthe page. Thiscrossoverreinforcespoststructuralist andpostmodernnotionsofthe fictiveness of any mediated renditions of reality, and in the travel essay results in a depiction of an existing geographical location and an actual experience of that location that are as fictional as settings and events in a novel. Even as a writer absorbs thedetails of aplace and attendstothesensationsof being in thatplace, he is already shapingthem into the essay he is going to write in the same way that he works with elements from his imagination. Snatches of conversation are worked into potential scenes as dialogue, turns of phrase are coined for vivid descriptions of sensation, and itineraries arereduced to summaries, in a process thattraversesthe permeableboundaries between fictionandnonfiction.Inthispaper,thisprocessisexploredthroughanexaminationofhowthiswriterapproacheda recenttravelessayassignmentontheSpainofpoetMiguelHernndez. VicenteGarciaGroyonhaswrittenanovel,TheSkyoverDimas(DeLaSalleUniversityPress,2003),andashortstory collection, On Cursed Ground and Other Stories (University of the Philippines Press, 2004), both of which received the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award for Fiction. He recently edited a Philippine PEN anthology of new fiction in English entitled A Different Voice: Fiction by Young Filipino Writers and two anthologies of flash fiction entitled Very Short Stories for Harried Readers and Mga Kuwentong Paspasan. In 2009 he received an Honorary FellowshipfromtheUniversityofIowaInternationalWritingProgram.HeteacheswiththeDepartmentofLiterature atDeLaSalleUniversityManila.

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TravelJournalsandFiction
KyokoNAKAJIMA Novelist,Japan knakajim@qg8.sonet.ne.jp
Thispaperwillfocusontheinteractionbetweentraveljournalsandfictionfromapracticalaspect. Travel nonfiction is mostly written from the travelers point of view. When people travel and see many things, they are also being seen. For a long period, travelers from Western countries were observers for nonWestern countries. Then they wrote what they saw onesidedly. But this situation is now considered history because presently non Westernwriterscanwritefromtheirperspective. MysecondnovelItosRomanceisbasedonatravelaccountcalledUnbeatenTracksinJapanwrittenbyIsabellaBird, a Victorian traveler who came to Japan in the late 19th century. The protagonist of my novel is her interpreter, a young Japanese man. To reverse the point of view gives a more diversified ideafor example, we can realize the prejudicewehave,andalsowebecomeawareofourdifferencesandsimilarities.Whenyouseesomeone,someone mayalsobewatchingyou.Simplyitisfuntothinkthatanobserverisalsoobserved. Thus travel writing itself can inspire another form of travel writing. I think it is an interesting way to have intertextualitybetweentraveljournalsandtravelfictionbecausethenovelisaformwhichcontainspolyphony. Kyoko Nakajima is an author of six collections of short stories and four novels. She started her career as a novelist withFUTONin2003.ThebookwasnominatedfortheNomaLiteraturePrizefornewwriters.HersecondnovelItono koi (Itos Romance) and 2 other books were also nominated for domestic literary prizes. She was one of the participants for theInternationalWritingProgram in University ofIowa, 2009.In 2010,shepublishedanovelChiisai Ouchi (The Little House). It won the 143rd Naoki Prize, the timehonored literary prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction in Japan. The novel was highly regarded that the writing vividly depicted the life of a middleclass family in prewar Japan and the author took in huge volumes of reference materials very tactfully. Chiisai Ouchi will betranslatedintoChineseandKorean,publishedfrompublishingcompaniesinBeijingandSeoulrespectively.

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The'Bricolage'ofTravelWriting: ABakhtinianReadingofNineteenthCenturyWomen'sWritingsaboutItaly
BettyHAGGLUND DepartmentofEnglish,NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK CentreforPostgraduateQuakerStudies,UniversityofBirmingham,UK betty.hagglund@ntu.ac.uk
Accounts of travel in Italy written by women during the period 18101830 are strikingly intertextual. Harriet Morton'sProtestantVigils;or,EveningRecordsofAJourneyinItaly,intheYears1826and1827(1829),forexample, directly draws on and/or quotes from at least sixtytwo other texts, including classical sources in translation, contemporary books on Italy, poetry, other travel accounts, the Bible, encyclopaedias and other reference books, scientific papers, etc. Similarly, Maria Graham's Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome, during the Year1819(1820)makesuseofatleastsixtysixtexts,onlyafewofwhichoverlapwiththeonesusedbyMortonand whichincludeLatin,FrenchandItaliantexts,Grahambeingfluentinallthreelanguages. Thispaperwillexplorethewaysinwhichtheseandotherwomentravelwritersoftheearlynineteenthcenturywrite a type of 'bricolage', drawing on and transforming a wide range of material in ways that take it far beyond twenty first century concepts of 'copying' or 'quotation'. It will look at how this layering of textuality is situated within contemporary approaches to female authorship and text, reflected in, inter alia, the growth in anthologies and periodical reviewing practices, and will contextualise it within a discussion of the ways in which texts were both producedandconsumedwhiletravellingabroad. Itwill goon toexaminethe ways in which these women travelwriters strovetocreateanauthoritativevoicewithin their texts and will look at the ways in which the multiple voices within the texts both 'disrupt' and support the authorityofthefemaleauthorialvoice. BettyHagglundisanHonoraryResearchFellowinEnglishatNottinghamTrentUniversity,UKandhasrecentlytaken up a post as Project Development Officer at the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham, UK,wheresheisbeginningtodevelopwaysinwhichtoanalyseandwriteaboutreligiouslymotivatedtravelwriting. She is the author of Tourists and Travellers: Women's NonFictional Writing about Scotland, 17701830 (Bristol: ChannelViewPublications,2010),andhaseditedthreevolumesofwomen'sItaliantravelwriting(London:Pickering and Chatto, 2010), the seventeenthcentury manuscript travel diary of Cassandra Willoughby (forthcoming 2012) and Catherine Hutton's The Tour of Africa (forthcoming 2013). She is coeditor of Snapshot Traveller, an international online newsletter for the academic study of travel writing and served as VicePresident of the International Society for Travel Writing from 20012005. She has published widely on travel writing, and has a particularinterestinwomen'swriting.

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WaywardWomen,OntheRoadandOnthePage
StephanieElizondoGRIEST UniversityofIowa stephaniegriest@uiowa.edu
Neither the road nor the market place has ever seemed as open for women travel writers. Elizabeth Gilberts Eat, Pray, Love spent 57 weeks at the No. 1 spot on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list, got translatedinto30languages,andbecameamoviestarringJuliaRoberts.TheSanFranciscopublisherTravelersTales boasts an entire line of womenthemed travel books that far outsell its genderneutral catalogue. Blogs like WanderlustAndLipstick and websites like JourneyWoman and TangoDiva abound. But how does the field look from theground? Stephanie Elizondo Griest will share her perspective, based on 15 years of orbiting the globe (and publishing four books about it). She will discuss the issues women travel writers routinely face on the road, from navigating conservative social norms to using perceived vulnerabilities to their advantage. What are the ethics of smoking sheeshawiththemenwhilethewomenareclearingthetable?Howcansexualadvancesbegracefullyandsafely thwarted?Underwhatcircumstancesshouldtearductsbedeployed? After exploring the ways in which gender can impact a journey, Elizondo Griest will ruminate on how it shapes a narrative, particularly when the goal is securing a sale with a New York City publishing house. Why are men encouraged to pump their stories with action, facts, and figures, while women must incorporate memoiristic elementssuchassoulbaringandreflection?ElizondoGriestwillalsomeditateonobstaclesfacedbywritersofcolor. How do local perceptions of race or ethnicity affect a travelers journey? What role can social justice play in a travel narrative? Handouts will include a list of publication venues that feature womens travel writing as well as recommended reading. Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author and activist from South Texas. Her books include the award winning travel memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines as well as the bestselling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, and edited the 2010 volume of the annual anthology Best Womens Travel Writing. As a correspondent for The Odyssey, she once drove 45,000 miles across the United States for an educational website. Awards include a Henry Luce Scholarship to China, a yearlong residency at Princeton University, the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, and the Gold Prize for Best Book in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. She is a MFA Candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program at theUniversityofIowa.Visitherwebsiteatwww.aroundthebloc.com.

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TravelWritingonIndonesiaandbyIndonesians
LilawatiKURNIA GermanDepartmentandCulturalStudiesMasterProgramme FacultyofHumanities,UniversitasIndonesia purplemoon08@gmail.com
The archipelago which is now called Indonesia and consists more than 13.000 islands was already known to the european seaman in the 17th and 18th century. European travellers, scientists of the 18th century, and also travel writerscametotheislands.TheseliteratureabouttheIndonesianislandsbecomeaguidebookforthetravellersand writers from the 2nd half of the 19thcentury until early 20thcentury. The research that was done in mydissertation is aboutthe involvementof Germans inVOCs (VereenigdeOostindischeCompagnie)activities andtheircomingtothe archipelago. There were at least 4 GovernorGenerals who were originally from German, e.g. Baron von Imhoff, scientists like Junghuhun, Rumphius in Ambon, Carl Reinwardt who established the botanical gardens, and also artists like Walter Spies who settled in Bali and was visited by other world artists such as Charlie Chaplin and the writer Vicky Baum. My dissertation took 4 novels which were written by Germans who have visited Indonesia. Drawing from the theoretical framework of Peter Brenner, there are at least four categories of travelwriting: a journalorscientificwritingaboutthetravel,adiaryorareportofthetravel,afictionalworkinspiredbythejourney, andaguidebookorinformationaltextaboutthetravelitself. Itturnsoutthat,theIndonesianswerealsofondoftravelling,inthe16/17thcenturyapersoncalledBujanggaManik from West Java walked on foot to East Java and wrote about his impressions and objects he saw along the way. In addition, people of Islamic faith who could, must travel far and wide on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Two people from different ethnic backgroundsone Bataknese and one Javanese wrote about this journey. There are also those who underwent the journey because it was their lifelong dream as such can be read from the books of Karl May. Writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma often travels as a journalist; one of his books is an essay with photos of the nine Wali (guardian/saint) who were considered as the pioneers of Islam in Java. The research regardingwritingsofIndonesiantravellershavealsonotedtheexistenceofliteraryworksthatareproducedthrough contemplation or impression of the journeys. However, the research is not yet completed and for that very reason I wouldliketodelvefurtherintothematter. Lilawati Kurnia teaches at German Department and Cultural Studies Master Programme at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Humanities, UI and Her Magister Artium fromGesamthochschuleKassel,Germany.Shehaspublishedseveralarticlesi.a.ApidalamIngatan.MemoriKolektif dalam Puisi Sapardi Djoko Damono, in: Anthology Membaca Sapardi, Obor Publisher, 2010; Goethe and the Multicultural Aspect of World Literature, Jurnal Susastra 4, June 2007; The Art of Culinary, Power and Multiculturalism in Master Cooking Boy/The Real Master Cooking Boy, by Etsushi Ogawa. Wacana, Vol. 8, No.2 October 2006, pages 202220; World Literature in the Discourse of Goethe and the Relevance with World Globalization, Jurnal Susastra Magazine, HISKI Journal, Vol.1. N0.3, 2006; Transitition of Balinese Culture in the NovelWayanZwischenDrogenundDmonen,Wacana Magazine,OborPublisher,April2006.Shealsotranslate in her free time and has published: EnglishBahasa Indonesia Ruang Publik, Identitas dan Memori Kolektif: Jakarta PascaSuharto (pengarang: Abidin Kusno), Penerbit: Ombak, Yogyakarta, 2009; and two german childern books publishedbyOborpublisher(Penerbit:Obor,Jakarta2008.)

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WarDiariesasTravelWriting: JapaneseConscriptsandtheirDiscoveryofJapanintheRussoJapaneseWar
NaokoSHIMAZU AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore arins@nus.edu.sg
During the RussoJapanese War of 19045, over one million Japanese conscripts were mobilized. Many of them left records of their extraordinary experiences as war diaries. One of the most revealing aspects of their writing is the discovery of Japan through their mobilization as they leave their hometowns and embark on the railway journey throughJapantotheportofembarkationinKurenearHiroshima.Thispaperwillarguethatthejourneyoffarewell as they travelled through Japan had a transformative effect on their sense of the self, as they gained gradually the sensibilityofwhatitmeanttobeaJapanesesoldier. Naoko Shimazu iscurrentlyaVisitingSeniorResearchFellow atARI, and ReaderinJapaneseHistory,Departmentof History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published widely on modern Japanese history, and is the author of Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the RussoJapanese War (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Nationalisms in Japan (editor, Routledge, 2006), and Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (Routledge, 1998). Her new project is a cultural history of diplomacy, focusing ontheBandungConferenceof1955.

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XuXiakeandXiakeYouji
ZHENGYi ArtsFaculty,theUniversityofSydney AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore arizheng@nus.edu.sg
The paper studies the intersection between transformations of travel genres as established literati belletrist forms and the development of motion, both conceptually and methodologically, as a necessary component in the emergent empiricist knowledge formation in Late Ming and early Qing China (15201750). Concentrating on the travel notes (Xiake Youji) of the literatusknower Xu Hongzu (15861641) and his routes of geographic and epistemologicalexplorations,Iwilltrytounderstandthesignificantchangesintravellingandgeographicknowledge, butmoreimportantlyinhowmotionitselfbecomesavalueintheprocessofmovingandknowing.Thisstudywillbe contextualized in the world and knowledge changes related to the new possibilities and scale of motion developing fromtheearlymodernglobaleconomicandculturalnetwork. Zheng Yi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Arts Faculty, the University of Sydney. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Since then she has researched and taught modern Chinese literature, comparative cultural studies and intellectual history in the US, Germany, Israel and Australia. She has held fellowships from the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies), Berlin; Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Studies), Budapest; and the Porter Institute for Comparative Poetics, Tel Aviv. Her areas of research interest include: Comparative and Chinese intellectual history, cultural history, aesthetics; Modern (including early modern) literary culture, scientific culture; Contemporary cultural forms and historical contexts. She is currently a Visiting Senior ResearchFellowattheAsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore.

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EthicalCommitment:TravelWritingandCritics
TimYOUNGS NottinghamTrentUniversity tim.youngs@ntu.ac.uk
Overthepastthirtyyearsorso,travelwritinghasbeenthesubjectofincreasedacademicattention,muchofitfrom postcolonial and feminist scholars. Travel texts from earlier periods have been analysed by many to show that far frombeingobjectiveandvaluefreerecordsofothercultures,societiesandlandscapes,theyinfacttransmit(evenif they are sometimes in tension with) dominant ideologies. Such criticism often proceeds from a conviction that the critic or theorist holds a morally superior position to the traveller, whose attitudes towards race and gender, especially, are held up for condemnation. My paper will present some of this criticism, with examples (mainly from thenineteenthcentury)ofthekindofwritingthathas provokeditandthatcan be seentofunctionintheserviceof imperialandpatriarchalpower.Lessremarkedupon,however,andthesubjectofthesecondpartofmypaper,isthe statedor impliedsuperiorityof somecriticalandtheoretical positionsoverothers.Ishallexaminesomeexpressions ofthisandaskwhethertheyconstituteaselfdefinitionagainstothersthatisanalogoustotheprocessesobservedin travelwritingitself. Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, where in 2003 he set up the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. In 1997 he founded the journal Studies in Travel Writing, which he continues to edit, and which from 2009 has been published 4 times per year by Routledge. His books include Travellers in Africa (1994), The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (ed. with Peter Hulme, 2002), and (ed.) Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century (2006). He is currently writing The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing and working on a multivolume anthology of critical works on travel writing for Routledge/Taylor & Francis. He was associate editor, with responsibility for travel writing, on the 7th edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature (2010). He publishesmainlyontravelwritingafter1900.

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TravelLinesandPlacesofBelonging
CarolE.LEON UniversityofMalaya caroleon@um.edu.my

My paper revisits the key issues raised in my book entitled Movement and Belonging: Lines, Places, and Spaces of Travel in which I explore concepts of self, other, place and space within the context of travel and movement. Underlying the discussion is the notion of belonging and the ways one can find a sense of self in an increasingly fragmentedworld. MovementandBelonging:Lines,Places,andSpacesofTravelputforwardtheideathatplace/spaceandtravelshare a reciprocal relationship. Indeed the discourse of spatiality is a discourse of travel and travel lines create places and spaceswhichultimatelydefinethe self. Withinthe vitalbutfluctuating linkages betweenselfand place,some sense of belonging can be procured. The act of travel is encoded in geometrical figures of lines, surfaces, contours and triangulations, in short arrangements in a spatial context. The theoretical framework of the book derives from the fundamental idea that travel is the movement that inheres in lines of travel. When travel lines are nomadic they cause fissures in boundaries of representation and this, the book contends, makes for authentic and ethical travel. True travel lies in the passage between the point of departure and the point of arrival, and in the fluidity of the passagebetweenthesepoints.ThetraveltextsanalyzedinmybookfocusontheIndianOceanregion.Thecountries in this region are postcolonial spaces in the process of decolonization. At the same time, they are tilting to the globalspace economy of capitalism. The authors in the travel narratives discussed are constantly negotiating the spacesfromwheretheyspeakandtheplacesthattheyencounter. I believe that in these uncertain times, when place and space have become empty signs and a sense of belonging is hardtoexperience,travellinescouldbecomealiterarymatrixtoevokesitesofdefinitionandbelonging. Carol E. Leon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She received her Ph. D in travelliteraturefromtheAustralianNationalUniversity.SheistheauthorofMovementandBelonging:Lines,Places, and Spaces of Travel (2009). Her fields of research are contemporary travel writings and postcolonial literature and shehaspublishedarticlesandchaptersintheseareas.

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Encounters,StereotypesandtheCosmopolitanImagination: TravelWritingfromSingapore
EddieTAY DepartmentofEnglish,TheChineseUniversityofHongKong eddietay@cuhk.edu.hk
In Singaporean literature, there is an emerging body of travel writing and fictional works of travel literature that critique assumptions, norms and boundaries of national life. Yet even as these texts are looking back upon Singapore, they are extending their gaze to other nations. In such moments of encounters with unfamiliar people and places, there emerge points of anxiety whereby the narrator realizes that historical and cultural knowledge as authorizedbytheSingaporeannation areno longer privileged sites of identityconstruction.In this paper,Iexamine moments in texts where stereotypes are points of departure for an emerging cosmopolitanism consciousness. Yet thetextssucceedtovaryingdegrees.Somearemoreeffectivethanothersinthewaytheyengagewithstereotypes. While some acknowledge their own limits of understanding, others embrace a set of stereotypes that circulates in transnationalroutesofcapitalistproduction. I argue that one of the key issues in contemporary travel writing is to document ones encounters with others without reproducing an image of the other that lends itself to easy appropriation for various nationalist and corporatist agenda. I shall adapt from Martha C. Nussbaums consideration of Kants notion of cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion that the cosmopolitan imagination is an exilic imagination, in that one distances oneself from local, national and/or corporatist loyalties and lives apart from a social group that is like a parent who will do his thinking for him (Nussbaum Kant and Cosmopolitanism 35). Exile, of course, connotes a sense of hardship and suffering. However, it remains to be said that the travel writer in his or her writings is embarking on a form of internalexile,seekingtoencounterothersontheirownterms. EddieTayteachescreativewritingattheDepartmentofEnglish,ChineseUniversityofHongKong.Hisrecentbookis entitled Colony, Nation and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature (HKU Press, 2011). He is also the author of three poetry collections, the most recent being The Mental Life of Cities (2010). He is the reviewseditoroftheonlinequarterlyjournalCha:AnAsianLiteraryJournalfoundedin2007. At present, his research focuses on creative writing in English in Singapore and Hong Kong. The title of a recent journal article published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing is Multiculturalisms, Mistranslations and Bilingual Poetry: On Writing as a Chinese.Another (coauthored) article entitled On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong is forthcoming in thesamejournal.

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FromColonialtoCosmopolitanVisions:DetoursinTheoryofTravel
DinahRomaSIANTURI Asia,ResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore aridrs@nus.edu.sg
The critical literature on travel writing in 1990s, fueled by postcolonial critique, affirms the genres role in forging imperial discourses. Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (2009) defines this narrative authority to represent the Rest as the dichotomy between mobility and stasiswith mobility as the imperial bodys key attribute while its attendant value of curiosity morphs into a drive to describe, systemize and, hence,ownknowledge. The seeming progress of/in travel theory in the recent decade, however, has not stopped critics from asking the question: can the phenomenon of travel (and thenarratives arising from it)shed its origins; do attempts at writing more culturally sensitive narratives confirm travel genres discursive maturity? In Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing (2007), Debbie Lisle asserts that underlying the veneer of civility are the old tropes of colonial travel narrativesthatarenowemployedinmoresophisticated,humorous,andselfdeprecatingtone. The search for a global reader turns into a delusive goal as one negotiates the continuum from colonial to cosmopolitan visions. Given this framework, the paper reflects on some of the detours in recent travel theory: Has thegenrereacheditslevelofdiscontent?Hasthegenreinfactexhausteditself?Hasthecontemporaryliberalization oftravelandmobilityrupturedtheconventionalmodesoftravelwriting?Or,doesthecurrentcriticalpreoccupation withtraveltheorydefine moretheindubitablehurdlesitisup againstthanthepossibilitiesofitdivestingitselfofits oldtaint?Whereistraveltheory'snextdestination? Dinah Roma Sianturi is an Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University and is currently on a twoyear research fellowship at the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute to finish the book A Trail Out of the Dark: Philippine Colonial Travel Narratives, 19001930s. Her geographic area of interest also includes Japan on which she has done studies (through the support of the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Japan Foundation) onitspostwarfilmandcinema,andthediscourseofnostalgiaoncontemporarytravelnarrativesonJapan.Hermost recent work inquires into how Japan is reenvisioned in contemporary Southeast Asian fiction. For her creative works, her first book A Feast of Origins (UST, 2004) was given the National Book Award for Literature by the Manila Critics Circle while her collection of poems Geographies of Light(2007) won a Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature.

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PilgrimageorTourism:WhatsTheDifference? 21stCenturyMassVisitstoSacredSpacesandtheirImplicationsonHeritagePreservation
AnaMariaTheresaP.LABRADOR NationalMuseumofthePhilippines analabrador@netscape.net
The paper will focus on the 21st century visits to places that is still being used as sacred sites and destinations of pilgrimages. I am interested in the consequences of mass tourism as the market and its logistics become more accessible to visitors. As a museologist, I am concerned with the possibilities of making collections accessible to the pointofhavingpeoplequeuetoseeexhibitions.Itisonewayofgaugingamuseumorheritagesitessuccess. However, on a more practical level, current scientific research indicates that more visitors to heritage sites are putting collections and ancient buildings at risk as visitors warm bodies, dirt brought in from their shoes and clothing as well as opening and closing of sites' doors, cause relative humidity and temperature to fluctuate and pollutants to increase. These considerations of agents of deterioration pose challenges for heritage sites especially those managing sacred spaces, perhaps in seeking a balance between preservation and openness? This balance is necessary as these living heritage places where devotees find significance in the objects, buildings and sites, must nowcompeteforspaceswithtouristswhohavemoreprosaicaimsfortheirvisits. Besidesmyresearchonheritageconservation andaccess,Iwillincludeinthispaperobservationsfromthe WatPho in Bangkok, Basilicas in Rome and other famous tourists sites that are also places of worship. It will investigate the effectofthepopularSevenWonderslistespeciallythoseincludedintoptwentyaswellasthosewhoselivesdepend on these sites. Finally, as a case study I will present the challenges that Angkor Wat faces with 2 million visitors that visiteditlastyearandtheexperienceofpartsofAngkorWatinCambodiathatisopentothepublic. Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador is research associate for anthropology at the National Museum of the Philippines. She is received a 2010 Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship and undertook research from June to December to investigatetheintersectionoflandscapes,heritagesitesandpostminingrehabilitationinAustralia.TheUniversityof Cambridge in England awarded her an MPhil and PhD in Social Anthropology, focusing on ritual, museology and material culture. She also obtained a MA in Museum and Gallery Management from the City University London, UK. Dr Labrador has had extensive field experience, studying ethnicity, representation and material culture in Luzon (Philippines),andexpatriateFilipinosinSoutheastAsiaandEurope.In2009,sheledateamofresearchersinbuilding adatabasetocreateacommunitybasedheritagetourismprogrammeinTayabas.ShecontinuestoworkwithLuzon communities in Tayabas (Quezon), San Fernando (La Union) and Magalang (Pampanga) to assist them with their heritageconservationneedsanddevelopingmuseumsintheirlocalities.

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Shopping,MeritMakingandMeditating: SpiritualTourisminContemporaryThailand
JoannaClaireCOOK SouthEastAsianStudiesatChristsCollege,Cambridge AsiaResearchInstitute,NationalUniversityofSingapore arijcc@nus.edu.sg
This paper examines the promotion of meditation as a tourism activity for domestic tourists in Thailand. The increasing democratisation of lay meditation practice is leading to its incorporation into syncretic and multiple worlds. In combination with the promotion of sacred Thai pilgrimage sites and the development of meditation centres able to accommodated and teach large numbers of lay students, spiritual tourism structured around merit making activities and meditation practice is increasing becoming an attractive activity for Thai tourists. Through ethnographic analysis and a consideration of the promotion literature developed by the Tourism Authority of Thailandthispaperexaminestherepackagingofmeditationandthemultiplemotivationsofgoodtourists. Joanna Claire Cook is a George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow in South East Asian Studies at Christs College, Cambridge. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She received both her PhD and M Phil in Social Anthropology from the UniversityofCambridge.ShehaswrittenandlecturedontheAnthropologyofEthics,Asceticism,Religion,Buddhism, Fieldwork Methodology, the Gift and Gender. Her current research on the democratization of religious practice in Thailand explores the complex interplay between medical practice, internationalism and civil society. Dr Cook has a longstandingresearchinvolvementwithThailand.Herearlierresearchfocusedonmeditationasamonasticactivity. Her recent monograph, published by Cambridge University Press, explores the subjective signification of monastic duties and ascetic practices focusing particularly on the motivation and experience of renouncers, the effect meditative practices have on individuals and community organization, and gender hierarchy within the context of themonastery.

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LISTOFSPEAKERS&CHAIRPERSONS
NO. NAME 1. 2. AnaMariaTheresaP. Labrador BettyHagglund ORGANISATION Anthropology,NationalMuseumofthePhilippines DeptofEnglish,NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK, CentreforPostgraduateQuakerStudies, UniversityofBirmingham,UK UniversityofMalaya AsiaResearchInstitute&DeptofSociology NationalUniversityofSingapore AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore DeptofEnglish, TheChineseUniversityofHongKong AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore SouthEastAsianStudies,ChristsCollege,UK AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore Novelist,Japan AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore GermanDeptandCulturalStudiesMaster Programme,UniversitasIndonesia AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore EnglishLanguage&Literatureand UniversityScholarsProgramme, NationalUniversityofSingapore NonfictionWritingProgram,TheUniversityofIowa; NonfictionEditor,TheIowaReview; Editor,Defunct(Defunctmag.com) UniversityofIowa AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore NottinghamTrentUniversity,UK DeptofLiterature, DeLaSalleUniversityManila,Philippines AsiaResearchInstitute, NationalUniversityofSingapore EMAILADDRESS

analabrador@netscape.net betty.hagglund@ntu.ac.uk

3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

CarolE.Leon ChuaBengHuat DinahRomaSianturi EddieTay HellwigTineke JoannaClaireCook

caroleon@um.edu.my aricbh@nus.edu.sg aridrs@nus.edu.sg eddietay@cuhk.edu.hk aricmsh@nus.edu.sg arijcc@nus.edu.sg

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

KyokoNakajima LeoChing LilawatiKurnia MaureenHelenHickey NaokoShimazu PeterMarolt PhilipHolden

knakajim@qg8.sonet.ne.jp arilct@nus.edu.sg lilawati@hotmail.com, purplemoon08@gmail.com arimhh@nus.edu.sg arins@nus.edu.sg aripwm@nus.edu.sg ellhpj@nus.edu.sg

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RobinHemley

robinhemley@uiowa.edu

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StephanieElizondoGriest ThongchaiWinichakul TimYoungs VicenteGarciaGroyon ZhengYi

stephaniegriest@uiowa.edu aritw@nus.edu.sg tim.youngs@ntu.ac.uk groyon@gmail.com arizheng@nus.edu.sg

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