• 16.08.2027

  Nostalgia, belated travel, authentic travel and heritage nostalgia

  Nostalgia conference at Linnaeus University, ‘Mediations of Nostalgia’, August 16-18, 2027. The conference is co-organized by MAP and encourages papers on belated travel, authentic travel, slow travel, heritage nostalgia, as well as nostalgia for pre-digital forms of mediated travel like the print book, postcards, letters, physical photographs.

• 24.04.2026

  Contemporary Travel Writing Symposium

  As part of the Independent Research Fund Denmark funded project anchored at SDU, a two day research symposium will be held at University of Surrey. Please see the CFP attached and if you have any questions, please contact Rune Graulund at graulund@sdu.dk

• 26.02.2026

  Cultures of the Polycrisis

  Teleborgs Slott, Linnaeus University Växjö, 26-28, February 2026. Rune Graulund: ”Bunker Fictions and Bunker Mentalities During the Permacrisis”. Marie Franchesca Borras: ”Revenge Travel and Mindful Travel: Writing the Island in the Time of Planetary Emergency”.

• 19.01.2026

  Revisiting Travel (Writing) in 80 Minutes: Rereading Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days

  Revisiting Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 Days (1989), a seven episode travel show starring the former comedian turned travel writer/presenter, this talk will reassess the tv show in the light of present day travel and travel writing.

• 12.11.2025

  Scorched Earth: Writing Travel in the Twenty-first Century

  Talks by Caroline Blinder and Richard Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Aidan Tynan (Cardiff University).