The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is organising an international colloquium on travel writing in modern Europe on 23 and 24 March 2023: "Penser et écrire le voyage en Europe du XVéme au XVIIIème siècle" (in French).
The event will take place both on UVSQ's campus and on the grounds on the castle of Versailles, with the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ as partner.
Jan Borm (MIARC/UVSQ/Université Paris-Saclay) will deliver a presentation on "Représenter la Laponie en texte et images à l’époque des Lumières : A Tour
through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark in a Series of Letters de Matthew Consentt (1789)".
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