On March 30, 2017, a seminar was held by the Goa Univ's English Department, on the above topic. Those who presented papers included:
* Dr Isabel Vas: Writerly Journeys * Parag Porobo: Viewing the Difference -- Politics and Identity in Richard Burton's *Goa and the Blue Mountains*. * Dr Susheela Mendes: Assolna, Velim, Cuncolim: An Insider's view on Robert Newman's oeuvre. * Sunita Mesquita: Sifting Sands: A search for stability and sustenance of Goan culture through travel narratives. * Dr Prema Rocha: *Veni, Vidi, Amavi*: Writing Goa from the Outside In. * Glenis Mendonsa: Goa through the Prism of Contemporary Travel Blogs * Akshata Bhat/Nafisa Oliveira: Reconstructing Goa through travel narratives: a study of the select writings from Manohar Shetty's *Goa Travels.* ** *Ambika Kamat: An Object of the Occiental Gaze: Analyzing Tome Pires' Descriptions of Goa in* Suma Oriental.* * Prof S Ganesha: Challenges andCultural Interpretations of Goa through Travelogues: some ruminations * Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues: The French Travellers Francois Pyrard de Laval and Denis Cottineau de Kloguen's reflections on food habits in Goa. * Brian Mendonca: Through the Eyes of a Traveller Poet: Goa, Yesterday, Today. * Palia Gaonkar: Footprints of the Colonial Past: Goa in VS Naipaul's * India a Million Mutinies Now-- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick <http://about.me/noronhafrederick> http://goa1556.in <http://goa1556.in>_/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha_/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/goa1556>_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ *
