Dear Colleague,
The international conference Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth will be held in the old spa town of Harrogate,
Yorkshire, UK, 22nd to 26th July 2004.
We are pleased to be now able to offer a special rate for PhD students of £175 for the five days of the event (subject to
confirmation of status).
We are also pleased to announce that delegates now have the opportunity to purchase tickets for the concert by Amy Winehouse at
the Harrogate International Festival and for the International Crime Writing Festival featuring best selling authors Minette
Walters, Karin Slaughter, Christopher Brookmyre, Colin Dexter, G M Ford, Val McDermid, Stella Rimington and Robert Wilson. For
full details of featured events please visit www.harrogate-festival.org.uk
The conference will feature some 150 papers and will bring together an international audience of academics, curators, writers,
professionals and tourism managers to discuss this increasingly important field. The conference will be multi-disciplinary
drawing from literary criticism, history, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography etc.
We are pleased to announce two distinguished keynote speakers for the event. Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory and John
Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester and Benedict Allen, author, presenter, filmmaker, and one of Britain's best known
explorers.
Eagleton has been regarded as the leading British Marxist literary critic since the death of Raymond Williams in 1988. He has an
interest in the history and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and also in literary and cultural theory - formalism,
semiotics, hermeneutics, narratology, psychoanalysis, reception theory, phenomenology and the like. Eagleton also has interests in
the English-language literature and culture of Ireland, and on comparative literature. He is the author of over thirty books the
most recent being 'After Theory' which dramatically suggests that in the face of a new global narrative of capitalism,
postmodernism may now be dead!
Allen has published nine books, two of them bestsellers, and, pioneering the filming of expeditions without a film crew, has made
five BBC TV series about his solo journeys in some of the world's remotest terrains. Few Westerners have spent so long
continuously isolated in so many remote natural environments. With the help of Matses Indians he's crossed the Amazon Basin, a
journey of almost eight months; he has twice lived with Aborigines in the Gibson Desert - the first time arriving in Australia by
canoe across the treacherous Torres Strait, has spent time with the Iban (Borneo), and almost six months travelling three thousand
miles through Mongolia by horse and camel.
In addition to the variety of academic sessions, delegates will participate in a study visit to the Brontė Museum and the charming
village of Haworth, a long standing place of international pilgrimage for devotees of the Brontė sisters and their works of
romantic fiction.
To register for the conference please contact:
Sharon Canavar
Harrogate International Festival
1 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate
HG1 1EQ
Fax: ++ 44 (0) 1423 521264
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For further details of the conference, regular updates and a downloadable version of the booking form please visit our website
www.tourism-culture.com
The conference will run in tandem with the Harrogate International Festival and the acclaimed International Crime Writing
Festival.
We look forward to meeting you soon in Harrogate.
Best wishes,
Professor Mike Robinson
Dr David Picard
William Culver-Dodds
(Conference Convenors)
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