This is the 1st CALL FOR PAPERS of Journeys of
Expression IV: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore, jointly
organised by the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
at Hallam University, UK and the Ivo Pilar Institute,
Croatia. JOE will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia on
17-20 march 2005.
In the tradition of the Journeys of Expression
conference series, this fourth event will again bring
together international academics to discuss the
multi-faceted relationships between tourism and
festivals, this time focusing on aspects of folklore
and carnival. The conference will take place in
Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 17 to 20 March 2005 and will
be hosted by the Croatian Ivo Pilar Institute of
Social Sciences. The themes to be discussed are
inspired by the conclusions of our 2004 conference,
which focused on "tourism and festivals as
transnational practice", and was held in Innsbruck,
Austria, with our partners at the Institute of
European Ethnology and Folklore.
Conference Aims
Journeys of Expression IV aims to discuss different
dimensions of festivity, carnival and celebration and
their relation with various forms of tourism and
touristic participation in festivals. In this sense,
there is a focus on festival tourism as a
transnational practice whose systemic character allows
us to rethink the role of touristic strangers in the
symbolic and economic exchange and consumption
processes of contemporary society. Integral to this
we will also focus upon the extent to which custom,
tradition, legend and myth are expressed through
festivals and are communicated to, and experienced, by
tourists. The conference will bring together an
international audience drawn from ethnology and
folkloric studies, history, sociology, anthropology,
cultural geography and tourism studies.
Themes of Interest
Key themes of interest to the conference include:
* Festival Tourism as Transnational Connectivity,
Exchange and Consumption;
* Hospitality, Appropriation and Manipulation of
Festival Tourists;
* Festival Tourism, Folklore and Agency;
* Music, Feast, Firework, Orgy and Dance - Inversion,
Transgression, Fusion;
* Nation / Region Building in a Transnational Society
- Changing Forms, Boundaries and Meanings of Festival
Folklore;
* Cultural Performance, Ethnicity and the Politics of
the Aesthetic;
* Myth, Legend and Superstition in Festival Tourism;
* Management Dilemmas related to Cross-Cultural
Festival Audiences
* Urban Myths and Legends in Contemporary Festival
Spaces;
* Tales that Travel - Buying and Selling Narratives
of Tradition;
* 'Non-Festivals' - Global Mobilities,
Internationalisation and Uni-formisation of Festival
Spaces and Practices.
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words
with full address details as an electronic file to Dr.
David Picard ([log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible
but by January 14th 2005 at the latest.
David Picard
Ph.D. (Anthrop., Univ. La Réunion, France, 2001)
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street - Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax +44 (0) 114 225 3343
Email [log in to unmask]
Website www.tourism-culture.com
Journeys of Expressions IV: Tourism, Carnival and
Folklore, the fourth edition of the CTCC's Tourism and
Festivals conference series will take place in
Dubrovnik, Croatia in March 2005. Further details and
a CFP will soon be available at our website
www.tourism-culture.com.
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