Friday, 24th March
2.00 pm: Registration opens
2.30-4.00 pm: Reading Workshop
4.00-4.30 pm: Break
4.30-6.00 pm: Keynote: Elaine Chalus (University of Liverpool), ‘Cosmopolitan Sociability in Post-War Florence: The Fremantles in Italy, c.1815–1819’
6.00-7.00 pm: Wine Reception and Book Launch
7.30 -9.30 pm: Conference Dinner
Saturday, 25th March
9.00 am: Registration
9.30-11.00 am: Panel One
Michele Cohen (Richmond American International University), ‘Gentlemen's education on the Grand Tour revisited'
John Gallagher (University of Cambridge), ‘Between theory and reality: language-learning in early modern English educational travel’
Richard Ansell (University of Leicester), ‘Travel and Family strategy in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1750’
11.00-11.30 am: Break
11.30-12.30 am: Panel Two
Mark Williams (Cardiff University), ‘To Gain the World … : The Generational Anxieties and Cosmopolitan Travels of the Clerks of Penicuik, 1640-1720’
Sarah Goldsmith (University of Leicester), ‘Nostalgia, melancholy and elite masculine formation on the Grand Tour’
12.30 am-1.30 pm: Lunch
1.30-2.30 pm: Panel Three
Chloe Chard (Independent Scholar), ‘Joking and Laughing in the Warm South and the Cold North’
Katrina O’Loughlin (University of Western Australia), ''O my travelling habit': women writing travel in the eighteenth century'
2.30-3.00 pm: Break
3.00-4.00 pm: Panel Four
Emma Pauncefort (UCL), ‘Who read French travel writings?’
Gerrit Verhoeven (University of Antwerp), ‘Backyard Othering: Framing the southern Low Countries in Dutch travel writing (1585-1750)’
4.00-4.30 pm: Break
4.30-5.30 pm: Round Table Discussion