Reflections and New Directions: A Conference on the Anthropology of Tourism In Honor of Valene L. Smith
Date: March 4-5, 2011
Location: California State University, Chico
Conference Chair: Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Keynote Speaker: Margaret Byrne Swain
Registration: Register online at http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/museum/
Registration Fee: $85 Early Bird Fee: $75 Student Fee: $35
For More Information Call: 530-898-5397
Friday
Opening Tribute to Valene Smith: Nelson Graburn (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Address: Margaret Byrne Swain (UC Davis)
Saturday
Welcome to Conference: Sharon Gmelch (U San Francisco & Union College), Georgia Fox (CSU Chico) & Valene Smith (CSU Chico)
Session 1: The Many Uses of Tourism (session chair: Sharon Gmelch)
Jesse Dizard (CSU Chico): The Commodification of Experience
Amanda Stronza (Texas A&M): Visions of Tourism: From Modernization to Sustainability
Elizabeth Garland (Union College): Poverty Tourism: NGOs, ‘Voluntourists,’ and the Work of Government in Africa
Alexis Bunten (Humboldt State University): More Like Ourselves: Balancing Ethics, Commerce and Representation in Indigenous Business Models.
Discussant: Margaret Swain
Session Two: Tourism as Economic and Disaster Recovery (session chair: Adam Kaul)
Adam Kaul (Augustana College): Tourism in the West of Ireland: Solution to Economic Collapse
or Part of the Problem?
Connie Z. Atkinson (University of New Orleans): “In that Number” – Tourism in Post-Disaster New Orleans
Teresa Leopold (Sunderland University): Community Vulnerability in the Recovery of a Disaster Destination
Susan Stonich (UC Santa Barbara): A UNESCO World Heritage Site at Risk: Addressing the Contradictions between Tourism Development and Conservation in the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
Discussant: Adam Kaul
Session Three: Visualizing Tourism: Film, Photography and Fantasy (session chair: Jim Hoesterey)
Kent Wisniewski (Santa Rosa): “I Just Want to Participate a Little Bit”: An Ethnographic Look at Caboclo Perceptions of Tourists and Tourism along the Middle Rio Negro, Brazil
Jim Hoesterey (Lake Forest College): Fantasies of First Contact: Tourism on the Travel Channel
Brian Brazeal (CSU Chico) and Steve Selka (Indiana University): African-American Heritage
Tourism and Religion in Brazil
Jamie Meltzer (Stanford): La Caminata – A Simulated Border Crossing and Indigenous Tourism
Discussant: Jim Hoesterey
Saturday Evening Banquet (CSU, Chico), Toast to Valene Smith: Charles Urbanowicz (CSU Chico)
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