CFP
Journeys of Expression IV: Tourism, Carnival and
Folklore
17-20 march 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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I will be far away from the office, which is why we
have moved the deadline to submit abstracts to 30 Jan
2005
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Tourism, Carnival and Folklore is an international
academic conference jointly organised by the Centre
for Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam
University and the Croatian Ivo Pilar Institute for
Social Sciences. It will be held in Dubrovnik,
Croatia, from 17-20 March 2005. Tourism, Carnival and
Folklore is the fourth of the Journeys of Expression
conferences, which will again bring together an
international audience interested in the ethnology,
geography and political economy of festivals and
festival performance, the transnational connectivity
of festival spaces, and the micro-politics of festive
hospitality and exchange.
Conference themes
The themes to be discussed are inspired by the
conclusions of our 2004 conference held in Innsbruck,
Austria, with our partners at the Institute of
European Ethnology and Folklore, Innsbruck University.
In this sense, there will be a focus on festival
tourism as a transnational social practice, the theme
of the 2004 Innsbruck conference, which we believe
allows us to rethink the role of tourists in the
symbolic and economic exchange and consumption
processes of contemporary society. Integral to this we
will also focus upon the extent to which custom,
tradition, legend and myth are expressed or performed
through festivals and are communicated to, and
experienced by, tourists.
Themes of the conference include:
- Festival Tourism as Transnational Connectivity,
Exchange and Consumption
- Carnivores, Carnivals, Cannibals: Ontology of
Tourist 'Consumption'
- Music, Feast, Firework, Orgy and Dance - Festive
Transgressions and Erotic Spaces
- Micropolitics of Hospitality: Appropriations and
Manipulations of Festival Tourists
- Nation / Region Building in a Transnational Society:
Changing Forms, Boundaries and Meanings of Festival
Folklore
- Cultural Performance, Ethnicity and the Politics of
the Aesthetic
- Festival Tourism, Folklore, Intangible Heritage and
Agency
- Management Dilemmas related to Cross-Cultural
Festival Audiences;
- 'Non-Festivals': Global Mobility, Uni-formisation,
Re-signification of Festival Spaces and Practices
- Urban Myths and Legends in Contemporary Festival
Spaces
- Myth, Legend and Superstition in Festival Tourism
- Tales that Travel - 'Buying' and 'Selling'
Narratives of Tradition
Call for Papers
If you wish to present a paper in this conference,
please send an abstract of no more than 300 words with
full address details as an electronic file to Dr.
David Picard ([log in to unmask] ) as soon as
possible, but by January 30th 2005 at the latest.
Venue and programme
The conference will take place in the old buildings of
the Dubrovnik University, situated next to Dubrovnik’s
historic town centre. Coffee, tea and lunch will be
served in the courtyard of this building (if it does
not rain!). In this time of the year, temperatures are
likely to be around 15-20°C (no guarantees!). The
programme will further include a guided study trip
through the walled town and a conference dinner.
Conference Registration and Accommodation
To register to this conference, please use the form on
the back of this card. The conference registration fee
does not include accommodation. We have negotiated
special accommodation rates in hotels close to the
conference venue (at around 35-45 EUR for standard
category). These preferential prices can be booked
directly with the Dubrovnik conference centre by using
a hotel booking form, which can (soon - end of
January) be downloaded below.
Further information
For any further information, contact us at
[log in to unmask] Alternatively, mail to:
Dr David Picard
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus / Owen Building
Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax +44 (0) 114 225 4434
Email [log in to unmask]
Website www.tourism-culture.com
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Forthcoming events:
Journeys of Expression IV: Tourism, Carnival and
Folklore. International conference in Dubrovnik,
Croatia, 17-20 March 2005.
Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages, Stories.
International conference in Sheffield, UK, 14-18 July,
2005.
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