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Conference announcement and CFP 

 

Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories

14-18 July 2005, Sheffield, United Kingdom

 

Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change

Sheffield Hallam University

www.tourism-culture.com

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

This is the second call for papers for TOURISM AND
PERFORMANCE: SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES. This event
is part of our ongoing conference series focusing on
tourism and tourism related practices, with the aim to
test and, where useful, to overcome traditional
conceptual and disciplinary boundaries. Previous
events of this series include Tourism and Photography:
Still Visions - Changing Lives in Sheffield, in 2003,
and Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and
Myth in Harrogate, in 2004. 

 

If you wish to present a paper in this conference,
please send a 300 word long abstract of your suggested
communication 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 15th April 2005 at the latest. 

 

CONTEXT

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: 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 just confirmed his
participation as a key note speaker. An informal
welcome reception will be organised in the early
evening of 14 July 2005 and the conference will
officially open in the morning of 15 July.

 

VENUE AND REGISTRATION

The conference will take place in Sheffield, United
Kingdom. Delegates will benefit from excellent rates
at the hotel / conference venue where 4* style bed and
breakfast accommodation is available. 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.
A single B&B will be at £55, a double B&B at £80 per
night. The registration fee for the conference is £220
if paid before 1 June 2005 and £250 if paid after this
date. This includes the full conference documentation,
an ISBN referred proceedings CD-ROM, day-time
conference catering, a conference dinner and a field
study. It does not include accommodation, which can be
booked directly with the venue (address to be
confirmed through our website). More information on
the registration procedures will be available at our
website www.tourism-culture.com.

 

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: Dr David Picard, CTCC, 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]

 

 
Dr David Picard 
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change 
Sheffield Hallam University 
City Campus / Owen Building 
Howard Street 
Sheffield S1 1WB 
United Kingdom 

Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973 
Fax +44 (0) 114 225 4434 
Email [log in to unmask] 
Website www.tourism-culture.com 


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