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Dear all,

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan  
University has some 	quota spaces available for students wishing to  
make applications to the AHRC for doctoral studentships. If you are  
interested in doing a PhD in the general field of the centre, please  
do get in touch as soon as possible. The deadline for complete  
applications is 12th April, and some preparatory discussions will be  
needed before then.

CTCC is an inter-disciplinary social science research centre including  
anthropology and archaeology (as well as development studies,  
sociology, politics, history), and is open to research projects  
related to cultural change, encounters and contacts, organisations and  
bureaucracies, travel, cosmopolitanism, tourism, heritage, cultural  
change, or other areas related to tourism and culture. The centre  
currently has 15 PhD students who form a very lively research  
environment, currently hosting a series of 2-day research seminars  
"Major Concepts in Tourism Research" (see below for details).

You can read more about the centre at www.tourism-culture.com and  
about postgraduate studies at http://www.tourism-culture.com/postgraduate_studies.html 
  or email/call the centre for more information.

Simone Abram
(Reader, CTCC)


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Interdisciplinary Workshop Series "Major Concepts in Tourism Research"
http://www.tourism-culture.com/workshop_series.html?PAGE=1

March to May 2008
Leeds/ UK

Much research in the field of tourism addresses at least one of the  
following concepts: Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience.  
Although these concepts are very popular, it is not always clear what  
they actually refer to, and how we may grasp them in, or through, our  
research. Therefore, the PhD-students at the Centre for Tourism and  
Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University took the initiative  
to organize a workshop series on key concepts in tourism research.  
During the spring term of 2008, four two-day workshops will focus,  
respectively, on Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience.

13/14 March 2008 Workshop “Experience”
Keynote: Claudio Minca, University of London
  “After the Island: the hard work of being (with) tourists”

  3/4 April 2008 Workshop “Exchange”
Keynote: Keith Hart, Goldsmith College London
"On commoditization: exchange in the human economy"

Venue: Queen Square House
Leeds Metropolitan University, Queen Square House
(03.04.08 Room QS H107 and 04.04.08 Room QS H 208)

17/18 April 2008 Workshop “Memory”
Keynote: Sharon MacDonald, Manchester University
“Memory, Materiality and Tourism”

8/9 May 2008 Workshop “Representation”
Keynote: David Crouch, University of Derby
  “The Problems with Representation: Consumption, Space and Images”

This workshop series is open to PhD-students from all disciplines. Its  
philosophy is to generate an interdisciplinary dialogue based on short  
paper presentations by the workshop participants. The contributions do  
not necessarily have to be polished conference papers; contributors  
may also present ideas, work in progress or critical reviews. To  
promote lively and engaged discussion, draft copies of all  
presentations shall be circulated among the workshop participants ten  
days in advance. Each workshop will be jointly led by a team of CTCC  
PhD students and an invited academic with wider expertise in the  
respective topic. This invited expert will also give a keynote address  
situating this topic and opening the discussion. Based on these  
introductions, we will explore different meanings and approaches to  
the concepts in question. By bringing together PhD students and  
leading academics from different academic institutions and  
disciplinary backgrounds, this workshop series constitutes a unique  
opportunity to get feedback on theoretical reflections and work in  
progress. It will allow the exchange of ideas, the clarification of  
epistemological stances and the building of networks among PhD-students.

Cost: £20.00 for one workshop. You can also register for all four  
workshops for £60.00.

Please register for one single workshop or the whole series not later  
than 17 February 2008 by either sending an abstract of no more than  
200 words explaining how you intend to relate to the topic of the  
workshop. Please note that the deadline for submission of the papers  
and contributions for the first workshop is 29 February 2008.
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