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Many Apologies for Cross Posting **************************************** Tourisms: Identities, Environments, Conflicts and Histories An international, interdisciplinary conference Department of Historical and Critical Studies University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK 21-23 June 2001 Venue: Greenbank Lecture Theatre, University of Central Lancashire, Preston Enquiries to: Liz Kelly Business Services Office University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE UK Telephone +44 (0) 1772 892256 Fax + 44 (0) 1772 892938 E-mail [log in to unmask] Further Details and Provisional Programme & Booking Form now available on the Conference Website: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/business_services/conf/index.htm After the highly-successful international conference on 'Relocating Britishness' at the University of Central Lancashire in June 2000, the Department of Historical and Critical Studies is organising a major international conference. 'Tourisms: Identities, Environments, Conflicts and Histories' will be an interdisciplinary conference, moving outwards from a core in social and cultural history but not neglecting maritime, environmental, urban, and political histories, and welcoming contributions from literature, cultural studies, sociology, geography, politics, international relations and of course tourism studies. The conference agenda recognises tourism's role as the great post-modern industry, transformer of societies and how they are read, agent of international capitalism and ambiguous exploiter of quests for pleasure, variety and authenticity. It also emphasises the need to understand tourism's development over time, and to repair the mutual neglect of history by tourism and tourism by history. The international scope of the conference encourages ambitious overview papers, but also detailed, well-targeted case-studies and well-grounded comparative studies which draw out and try to understand similarities and contrasts between host and guest cultures. The conference proposes to explore the languages and semiotics of tourisms, and will provide an opportunity to subject the big ideas of tourism studies (such as the tourist gaze(s), orientalism, Macdonaldization, cultural mobility, the resort product cycle, staged authenticity, the liminal and the carnivalesque) to historical interrogation. It also offers a forum for the discussion of the relationships between tourism, 'heritage' and academic history: what is 'history' for these purposes and who 'owns' it?