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JOURNEYS OF EXPRESSION IV: TOURISM, CARNIVAL AND
FOLKLORE
17-20 March 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia
www.tourism-culture.com
organised by
the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK
and
Ivo Pillar Institute, Croatia
A PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME IS NOW LIFE AT
WWW.TOURISM-CULTURE.COM
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
Late abstract
As it happens, some delegates may drop out and time
slots will be coming available. If you wish to present
a paper in this conference, you may still 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]).
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. A
full preliminary programme is included in the
downloadable file below.
Conference Registration and Accommodation
To register to this conference, please download a
registration form and further details (accommodation
booking form, preliminary conference programme,
how-to-get-to-Dubrovnik information) from our website
www.tourism-culture.com. We offer an early bird
registration fee at 185£ if you register before
February 20 2005. 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 the hotel
booking form included in the downloadable file below.
Further information
For any further information, contact us at
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Alternatively, you may mail to
Dr David Picard
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street, Owen Building
Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom.
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