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Apologies for cross posting- please distribute widely Call for Papers 1st International Research Forum on Guided Tours Welcome to the First International Research Forum on Guided Tours! Halmstad University, April 23-25th, 2009 For more information about the conference: http://www.hh.se/konferenser Research regarding guiding involves several aspects of sustainable spatial planning, place marketing and tourism who informs, develop and manage knowledge concerning companies, rural- and city planning and cultural heritage. Guiding is an activity that can be studied from an interdisciplinary research perspective. Guiding is for instance part of the experience industry where the meetings between people and new environments can be augmented through technologies. We hereby invite you to an international conference in Halmstad, Sweden on April 23-25th 2009! We are seeking papers related to deliberate and unintended attempts at leading and organizing, at giving alternative voices of producing places and the experience of places, in literature, music, art and other cultural expressions. We are particularly interested in reflective, concept-driven and empirically grounded papers that creatively and critically assess guided tours in familiar settings of cities and rural landscapes as well as unfamiliar settings guided tours not normally linked to cities. We welcome papers that refer to, but are not limited to, themes such as: • The production of guiding images and representations • Technologies supporting guided tours • Experiences produced in guided tours • Guiding and sustainability • Substance and stimuli produced by guided tours • Guided tours as alternative empirical voices in city- and rural research • The language of guiding and guiding with words • Different types of guided tours (transportation, content, target groups) • Alternative understandings of guided tours • Contextualizing guided tours • Guiding and disabilities • Poetics and politics of guided imaginaries • Economical aspects of guiding Proposals for papers should be within 150 words, and include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts are to be submitted to all of the Conference Organizing Committee members [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Important deadlines: - Submission of abstracts by November 2nd, 2008 - Decision of accepted abstracts are given no later than December 1st, 2008. The product of the conference will be a book proposal involving a selection of contributions made within the conference theme. Conference Organizing Committee: Petra Adolfsson, Ph.D Göteborg Research Institute, GRI, Göteborg university [log in to unmask] Rolf Solli, professor, Göteborg Research Institute, GRI, Göteborg university [log in to unmask] Mikael Jonasson, Ph.D Social- and Health Sciences, Halmstad university college [log in to unmask] Peter Dobers Peter Dobers, Professor School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Mälardalen University [log in to unmask] Anette Hallin, Ph.D Student, The Royal Institute of Technology [log in to unmask]