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TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE:
SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
14-18 July 2005, Sheffield, United Kingdom
CENTRE FOR TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
www.tourism-culture.com
This is a call for papers for Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and
Stories, an international research conference organised by the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
The extended deadline for this CFP is 1 May 2005. Due to lower venue costs,
we have been able to reconsider the registration fees, and offer a student
rate. Prof Edward Bruner from the University of Illinois, USA will give a
plenary speech on 'Experience, Narrative and Memory in Tourism'.
CONTEXT AND AIMS
Performance has been theorised as a way by which human beings act in
society and organise their being in the world. In the context of tourism,
there is much debate regarding the idea of tourists as performers, 'acting
out' spaces, and enacting 'scripts', through which they organise and add
meaning to their experiences and journeys. Tourism in this sense can be
seen to be 'staged'. But such perspectives raise a number of questions
regarding the reflexivity, the hermeneutics, the sensual and aesthetic
modalities, the social interactions and the political economy of tourist
performance: How is individual tourist performance linked to socially
prescribed or learnt models regarding tourism behaviour and spaces? How are
spaces and material culture 'enacted' by and for tourists? What are the
production and consumption modalities of in situ and in visu stages for
tourism performance? How is tourism performance linked to modes of
touristic social interaction during the journey? What roles do stories play
in generating performativity and in liberating tourists from the acts of
travel and tourism?
The aim of this conference is to explore such questions by drawing on the
methodological and conceptual knowledge of different disciplinary
perspectives including those of: tourism studies, anthropology, sociology,
history, cultural studies, folkloric studies, literature, critical theory,
linguistics, human/cultural geography, psychology, theatre studies and
other relevant approaches.
THEMES
Key themes of interest to the conference include:
- Who is cooking who? Tourism consumption, digestion, and excretion
- Hermeneutics, reflexivity and agency: Tourism as a parable of the social
world
- Eden, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Solitary Wanderer, the Golden Fleece:
Archaeologies of tourist imaginary and performance
- Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the senses: cognitive
categories and perceptive processes in tourism experience
- Objects as props - objects as texts
- Staging, eroticising, and making visible: Translations, adaptations, and
variations of the 'cultural'
- Reconsidering the economic in tourism: Transnational spaces of encounter,
production and exchange
- Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism scripts
- 'Losing the plot': Tourism lost in translation
PROGRAMME
The conference is organised by Prof Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard, from
the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University. It
will accommodate key note presentations and a series of themed sessions.
Prof Edward Bruner from the University of Illinois, USA has confirmed his
participation as a key note speaker. An informal welcome reception will be
organised in the early evening of 14 July 2005. The conference will
officially open in the morning of 15 July.
VENUE AND REGISTRATION
The conference will take place in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The
registration fee for the conference is £190 if paid before 1 June 2005 and
£240 if paid after this date. We also offer a student rate at £160. This
includes the full conference documentation, an ISBN referred proceedings CD-
ROM, day-time conference catering, a conference dinner and a field study.
ACCOMMODATION
The conference registration fee does not include accommodation. This can be
booked directly with the venue (address to be confirmed through our
website). Delegates will benefit from excellent rates at the hotel /
conference venue where 3* style bed and breakfast accommodation is
available. A single B&B will be at £55, a double B&B at £80 per night. As
in previous events, we expect that the majority of delegates will stay on
the conference site and therefore urge early bookings to avoid pain,
disappointment and depression.
CALL FOR PAPERS
People who wish to present a paper should send a 300 word abstract with
full address details as an electronic file to Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr.
David Picard (send to [log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible but by 1 May
2005 at the latest. Late abstracts might be also accepted.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For any other or further enquiry regarding this conference or the Centre
for Tourism & Cultural Change, please visit www.tourism-culture.com or
contact us at:
conference convenors:
Prof. Mike Robinson Dr David Picard
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conference administrators:
Mr Francesco Gilardi Ms Annie Yeromian
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ADDRESS
Centre for Tourism and 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
Web: www.tourism-culture.com
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