Dear colleagues! On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Pula and the Brijuni Islands for the Borders and Crossings Travel Writing Conference, which will be held from 13th till 16th September 2018 in the Brijuni National Park. This year's conference will be a special occasion to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ‘Borders and Crossings’ conference, the regular meeting of all scholars interested in the issues of travel, travel writing and tourism in a unique historic environment of Pula and the Brijuni Islands.

Dear colleagues, we would like to thank you again for submitting your abstract for the Borders and Crossings conference to be held at the Juraj Dobrila University Pula and on the Brijuni Islands in September 2018. We've received an enormously rich and varied range of submissions for the conference, so we are very much looking forward to welcoming you to Pula and the Brijuni Islands for what promises to be an exciting event.

This is our invitation to scholars with an interest in the study of travel, travel writing and tourism, to the 2018 edition of the Borders and Crossings Conference series. The conference will be held in Pula, a city with ancient origins: a town of fugitives, the mythical refuge of the Argonauts, which has been for centuries a perfect stopping point for boats sailing along the eastern coast of the Adriatic from Venice and Trieste to Dalmatia and the Levant. Its great abundance of monuments and the beauty of its bays have often been described in European travel books. Join us and explore one of the most interesting historic cities in Europe and its turbulent history, as well as the nearby Brijuni Islands, a national park and one of the first modern tourist destinations on the Adriatic.

Od 13. do 16. rujna 2018. na Sveučilištu Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Fakultetu za interdisciplinarne, talijanske i kulturološke studije, održat će se konferencija „Borders&Crossings“ . Međunarodni znanstveni skup, posvećen kulturi i povijesti putovanja, turizmu i interkulturnim prožimanjima kroz putopise organizira međunarodna istraživačka mreža sa sjedištem u Velikoj Britaniji već dvadeset godina. Pozivamo sve zainteresirane istraživače da se pridruže obilježavanju jubilarne obljetnice konferencije u rujnu 2018. u Puli i na Brijunima.

Das ist unsere Einladung für Wissenschaftler mit Schwerpunkt Reise, Reiseliteratur und Tourismus für die Reihe des Jahres  2018 „Borders and Crossings Conferences“. Die Konferenz findet in Pula statt, einer Stadt mit einer langen Geschichte: eine Stadt der Flüchtlinge, der mythologischen Zuflucht der Argonauten, die jahrhundertelang ein perfekter Stop für Segler war, die entlang der östlichen Küste der Adria von Venedig und Triest nach Dalmatien und in die Levante unterwegs waren. Die Stadt mit ihrer großen Zahl an Denkmälern und der Schönheit ihrer Buchten wurde oft in europäischen Reiseführern beschrieben. Machen Sie mit und erkunden Sie eine der interessantesten historischen Städte in Europa und ihre bewegte Geschichte, wie auch die nahe liegenden Inseln Brioni, ein Nationalpark und eine der ersten modernen Tourismusdestinationen in der Adria.

Dal 13 al 16 settembre 2018, presso la Facoltà di studi interdisciplinari, italiani e culturali dell’Università degli studi Juraj Dobrila di Pola si terrà il convegno scientifico internazionale “Borders&Crossing”. Il convegno, dedicato alla cultura e alla storia del viaggio, al turismo e ai contatti interculturali attraverso i percorsi di viaggio, vanta ormai una tradizione ventennale ed è organizzato dalla rete internazionale di ricercatori con sede in Gran Bretagna. Invitiamo gli interessati a prendere parte alla celebrazione del ventesimo anniversario della conferenza, che si terrà nel mese di settembre 2018 a Pola e sulle isole Brioni.

If you want to print our  1st Call for papers  or send it to your colleagues please visit the Calls for papers web page: