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First Call for PapersBorders and Crossings:An International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel WritingSeptember 12-14, 2016Hosted by the Jan Kochanowski University’s Department of Modern Languages (Kielce, Poland)Conference language: EnglishConference website: http://ifo.ujk.edu.pl/borders_and_crossings/Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2016Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2016We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the Borders and Crossings Conference.Proposals for 20-minute papers and for full panels are sought from scholars working in all areas of travel writing, including literary studies, book history, geography, art history, translation studies, anthropology, history and media studies.Paper proposals from any time period or geographic context are warmly welcome as are proposals from established scholars, early career researchers, graduate students and independent scholars.Topics may include, but are not limited to:Representations of travel through Poland and Central/Eastern EuropeTravel writing and autobiographyTravel writing and intertextualityTravel writing in translationTravel writing and womenRepresentations of travel and the new mediaTravel illustration and multimediaNarratives of pilgrimageNew directions in travel writing researchTeaching travel writingWriting travel and/in minoritised languagesTravel and ecologyBorders and checkpointsPlease send proposals of approximately 250 words for a single paper or up to 500 words for a panel proposal, complete with a short bio note and your academic affiliation to:Magdalena Ożarska: mozarska@gmail.comorAgnieszka Szwach: aszwach@ujk.edu.pl&#160;