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List members might be interested in the following conference:
Journeys of Expressions VI : Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism
York, United Kingdom, 4-6 October 2007
and its approaching early bird registration deadline (17. August 2007)!!
Journeys of Expressions VI
Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism is the sixth of our continuing conference series exploring the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and festivals. Journeys of Expressions aims to discuss touristic practices in relation to traditional and contemporary diaspora community festivity. The conference will encourage an interdisciplinary debate between academics and practitioners of various backgrounds including tourism studies, festival studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc.
The conference will also include presentations from Arthur France, one of the founders of the Leeds Caribbean Carnival and Hughbon Condor, one of the UK's leading Carnival costume and troupe designers.
Conference Themes
* Themes the conference will address include:
* Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with festivals and cultural events;
* Histories of diaspora communities' mobilities and the transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new community circumstances and settings;
* Relationships between diaspora communities and the 'homeland' and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural events;
* The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora festival forms - e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish - religious and secular, established, emerging and contested;
* The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism;
* Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora community members - inter-generational issues;
* Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city;
* Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural events;
* Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora community festivals and cultural events;
* Performing diaspora community arts through festivals;
* Diaspora tourism markets.
Conference format
The conference is designed to be a discussion led, small scale event hosting approximately 50-70 international delegates. In the tradition of the Journeys of Expression series, we wish to animate an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and accepted paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies, anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, religious studies, performance studies, history, social policy, politics, etc. While providing a platform for academic exchange, this conference also includes spaces to socialise with fellow academics and carry debates beyond the formal settings of the conference venues.
Conference Registration
The normal conference rate for delegates is £225. If you register before 17 August 2007, we offer an early bird rate at £185. We also offer a student rate at £145 for full time students (please provide photocopy proof).
Further Information
For more information on accepted papers, registration, programme etc please visit www.tourism-culture.com <http://www.tourism-culture.com/> or send an email to [log in to unmask]
Best regards
Daniela
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Daniela Carl
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts & Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Old School Board
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 3ED
UK
phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541
x 28 541
fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544
www.tourism-culture.com
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Forthcoming conferences:
Researching Destination Management, Policy and Planning: Linking Culture, Heritage and Tourism
24-25 September 2007
Riga, Latvia
Journeys of Expressions VI: Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism
4-6 October 2007
York, United Kingdom
Film, Television, Tourism and Regeneration
15-16 November 2007
Leeds, United Kingdom
For more information please visit www.tourism-culture.com
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