Final Call for Papers - sorry for cross-posting
TOURISM & LITERATURE: TRAVEL, IMAGINATION & MYTH
22-26 July, 2004, Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
This is the final Call for Papers for our forthcoming
research conference on 'Tourism & Literature',
organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
The conference will take place in an old spa hotel in
Harrogate, The Old Swan, in the North of England, from
22-26 July 2004. It will run in tandem with the
Harrogate International Festival and the Harrogate
Crime Writing Festival.
Themes of interest for the conference include:
- Sight-seeing - encounters with literately enchanted
worlds
- From the Bible to Lonely planet - literature as
travel liturgy
- Representing places, peoples and pasts in fictional
texts
- Diaspora and Localities: Negotiating collective
identities through travel narratives
- Production of literary spaces and the poetics of
literary landscapes
- Recreating the world - travel, cosmogony and myth
- 'Intangible heritages' - narrative traditions,
storytelling and oral histories
- Literary pilgrimages and the celebrity of authors
- Alternative literatures and tourist experiences
Please send your abstract of around 250 words with
full address details as an electronic file to Dr.
David Picard ([log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible
but by March 1st 2004 at the latest.
'Tourism & Literature' is part of our ongoing annual
conference series build around the problem of
touristic constructions and experiences of time, space
and otherness, and the challenge these represent to
the way we communicate and exchange in the
contemporary world. This second academic event
emphasises on literature which, through both texts and
authors, has been a major 'inspiration' for tourists
and travel. The inter-relationship between tourist,
tourism and literature will be at the heart of this
international conference.
The conference will gather around 140 international
academics and travel writers from around 25 countries
with research interests and teaching curricula in the
tourism and travel literature fields. This event is a
unique opportunity to raise a number of fundamental
anthropological, sociological, geographical and
political issues which we would like to discuss
through different historic, ethnographic, aesthetic,
cognitive-psychological and socio-linguistic
perspectives.
Executive Producer: Frederic Revaz
Conference Convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard,
William Culver-Dodds
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street - Owen Building
Sheffield, SW1 1WB, United Kingdom
Phone: ++114 225 29 28
Fax: ++114 225 33 43
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.tourism-culture.com
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