{"id":1122,"date":"2012-02-18T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1122"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:24:55","slug":"travel-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/programs\/travel-writing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_third\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Fowler_Hanson_Whitehead.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039   \" title=\"Faqir_Fortier_Sedira\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Fowler_Hanson_Whitehead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corinne Fowler, Richard Hanson and Harry Whitehead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Travel_Workshop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Memory_Migration_Mood_panel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Travel_Workshop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing Workshop led by Harry Whitehead and Corinne Fowler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<h2>Programme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10.00am &#8211; 12.30pm<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Travel Writing Workshop<\/em> led by Corinne Fowler and Harry Whitehead<\/li>\n<li><strong>2.00-3.00pm<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Photographic Exhibition<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;Haiti: Beyond the Rubble&#8217; by Richard Hanson<\/li>\n<li><strong>3.00-5.00pm<\/strong> <em>Panel Discussion<\/em> chaired by Professor Graham Mort &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8216;Faking the Facts in the Cannibal Spirit&#8217;<\/em>, Harry Whitehead<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Haiti Beyond the Rubble&#8217;<\/em>, Richard Hanson<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Travel Writing, fiction and affection: the case of Paraguay&#8217;<\/em>, Corinne Fowler<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1096\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" title=\"adobe-pdf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/adobe-pdf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/Images\/11_Travel_poster_web.pdf\">Download Poster<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_col\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Travel, Writing, and the Ethics of Observation<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">writing . culture . location<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Haiti.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1134\" title=\"Haiti\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Haiti.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Haiti.png 500w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Haiti-300x103.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>This free one-day event took place on 16th June 2011.\u00a0 It featured a generative writing workshop, a projected photographic exhibition and presentations from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=corinne%20fowler&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDoQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.le.ac.uk%2Fdepartments%2Fenglish%2Fpeople%2Fcorinnefowler&amp;ei=yfs_T_vnDeic0QXsm5CQDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtWkqBrwSa3U0pWd_Ip1GeLjwRew&amp;sig2=jQ0tGmUnHqGsqdZdbrFZDA\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Corinne Fowler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=harry%20whitehead&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.le.ac.uk%2Fdepartments%2Fenglish%2Fpeople%2Fharrywhitehead&amp;ei=1_s_T9zjOIOh0QWsgZGPDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFW1epGIEBfdSJiS5ksr2dSpdXsXg&amp;sig2=xaDUHDwGDeUKsXaULSA21w\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Harry Whitehead<\/a> (University of Leicester) and photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=richard%20hanson&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hansonphoto.co.uk%2F&amp;ei=A_w_T6mXLqSr0QW-ysyPDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNH_2_gSeunw5RT7kOTbaugE4jM_7w&amp;sig2=RsL6E-lxQnrJBg2HmwUHow\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hanson<\/a>.\u00a0The workshop concentrated on unpicking established conventions of travel writing and considered some recent innovations in representing other places and peoples. Through discussion and generative writing exercises, participants were invited to explore the ethical implications of their own chosen mode of writing about travel, tackling the challenge of evoking a sense of place while remaining alert to ways in which contemporary and historical global inequalities impinge on people\u2019s relationships to that place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<h2><em>Photographic Exhibition,<\/em>\u00a0Haiti: Beyond the Rubble<\/h2>\n<p>From the 1st June 2011, international aid and development agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/en\/get_involved\/give\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tearfund<\/a> presented \u2018Haiti: Beyond the Rubble\u2019, a new month-long photographic exhibition showcasing original photographs taken by the children of Haiti and photographer Richard Hanson, who visited Haiti with Tearfund throughout 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty Haitian school children were given disposable cameras and asked to take photographs of their favourite things. The images are a unique insight into family life after one of the biggest natural disasters of recent times.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs illustrate Haiti\u2019s recovery after the devastating earthquake on January 12th 2010, and the stories of the people Tearfund has met and worked with over the last year.\u00a0The exhibition took place at Central Hall Westminster from 1-30 June 2011 and the images can be seen on Richard Hanson&#8217;s website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hansonphoto.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hansonphoto.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1054 \" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Beyond the Rubble\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hanson_Haiti_Images.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"117\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Tearfund\/Richard Hanson, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programme 10.00am &#8211; 12.30pm\u00a0Travel Writing Workshop led by Corinne Fowler and Harry Whitehead 2.00-3.00pm\u00a0Photographic Exhibition\u00a0&#8216;Haiti: Beyond the Rubble&#8217; by Richard Hanson 3.00-5.00pm Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Graham Mort &#8211; &#8216;Faking the Facts in the Cannibal Spirit&#8217;, Harry Whitehead &#8216;Haiti Beyond the Rubble&#8217;, Richard Hanson &#8216;Travel Writing, fiction and affection: the case of Paraguay&#8217;, Corinne&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/programs\/travel-writing-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Travel Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions\/1309"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}