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Final reminder and call for papers
Festivals and Identities: People, Places and Programmes
15 - 17 march 2006, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International
Festivals and Events Association (IFEA), this conference will again bring together international researchers with policy makers
and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector. The conference will discuss the complex relationships between
identities, festivals, cultural events and tourism focusing in particular on aspects of policy, management, programming and
marketing.
The conference will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 15 - 17 March 2006 and will form the research stream at the 15th
Annual Conference of IFEA.
Conference Aims
Festivals and cultural events are occasions where the identities of peoples and places are performed, celebrated and shared. There
is much that can be learned from international experiences in the management and communication of diverse and changing community,
place and brand identities through festivals and cultural events.
The conference aims to share the latest research findings and debates in these areas of critical concern for researchers, policy
makers and practitioners alike.
Themes of Interest
Key themes of interest to the conference include:
* Managing and representing cultural identities through festivals: diversity, inclusion, conflict and civic pride
* Developing and promoting place identities through festivals and cultural events
* Building capacity and expressing local community identities through festivals and cultural events
* Understanding the identities of festival and event participants and audiences
* Understanding tourist identities at festivals and events
* Branding of and through festivals and cultural events
* Festival and event programme identities
Please send your abstract of no more than 400 words with full address details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long
([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible and by 20th February latest
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special edition of the journal Event Management.
Abstracts received to date include:
Baba Ceesay, Principal Cultural Officer, Museums and Monuments Division, The Gambia. 'In Search of 'Roots': Cultural Tourism and
the return of the African Diaspora to the West African Littoral'
Heather Diamond, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'iMulticultural Hawai'i, USA. 'Multicultural Hawai'i at the
Smithsonian Folklife Festival'
Martine Ferry, Professeur de Tourisme, CERAM SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, Nice, France. 'From tradition to perversion, how tourists modify a
cultural event: The case of the Nice Carnival'
Rebecca Finkel, London Metropolitan University, UK. 'Serial replication of UK arts festivals and issues of place-based identity'
Razaq Raj, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. 'The Festival of Sacrifice and Travellers to the City of Heaven (Makka)'
Lisa Rathje, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. "Re/presenting Traditions: Nexuses between practice and theory"
For further details on the conference and to register, please connect to:
http://www.ifeaeurope.com/belfast/
Philip Long
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Organisation and Management
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Sheffield
S1 1WB
UK
Tel. +44 (114) 225 2957
Fax +44 (114) 225 3343
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