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Crossing the Boundaries IX: An Inter-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference

March 30 - April 1, 2001

Binghamton, NY, USA

Literature

Host: SUNY
Email: bj93777@binghamton.edu

Description:
This year's conference will focus on:

Vagabond- Somewhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide?

The collective of the 9th annual Crossing The Boundaries Conference invites members from various cultural spaces and different academic disciplines to examine the issues of cultural groups/ individuals who travel for a myriad reasons and motivations. Some possible themes:

- Accounts of exploration and expedition - Crusades - Pilgrimages: secular and religious - Tourists/tourism - The refugee experience - Nomads - Collectors and collectibles - The flâneur - The Hobo - Traveling salespeople - Migrant workers - Issues of immigration/emigration - The "Grand Tour" - Homelessness - Rites of passage

Date received: November 21, 2000

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