You can’t think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. In Luggage (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018) Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel–the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present–have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor. She considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves, charting the evolution of travel across literature, film, and art. A simple suitcase, it turns out, contains more than you might think. She will give a reading and discuss the connections she finds among artworks in the Baggage Claims exhibition. A book-signing will follow. More…

Special thanks to the UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium for helping to sponsor this event in conjunction with the exhibition Baggage Claims, on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum January 27-April 22, 2018. 

weatherspoon.uncg.edu
336-334-5770
Free to the public