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CALL FOR PAPERS Borders and Crossings/Seuils et traverses: 12th Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing 21-23 July 2015Queen’s University Belfast, Northern IrelandThe ‘Borders and Crossings’/’Seuils et traverses’ conference returns to Northern Ireland for the first time since the inaugural event in Derry in 1998. Contributions  considering past and future developments in research on travel writing – and reflecting on the evolution of the field since the first Borders and Crossings conference – are particularly welcome. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Margaret Topping (m.topping@qub.ac.uk) by 30 January 2015. Papers are welcome in both English and French.Topics may include but are not limited to:New directions in travel writing researchTeaching travel writingDark tourism/phoenix tourismTravel to/from IrelandWriting travel and/in minoritised languagesVirtual travelUtopian/dystopian journeysTravel(s) in translationBorders and checkpointsSensual geographiesIntermedialityThe ethics of representationPilgrimageTravel and ecology