[Backstage-list] Fwd: WG: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice - Innsbruck 05/04

[Peter Spillmann]

>Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University
>(United Kingdom); Institute for European Ethnology and Folklore,
>Innsbruck University
>05.05.2004-07.05.2004, Innsbruck
>
>Conference announcement and Call for Papers
>
>Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational
>Practice
>
>3rd annual CTCC Tourism & Festival Research Conference Innsbruck,
>Austria, 5-7 May 2004
>
>Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational
>Practice is a small three day academic conference being held in
>Innsbruck, Austria from 5 to 7 May 2004. It is being co-organised by the
>Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam University
>(United Kingdom) and the Institute for European Ethnology and Folklore
>at Innsbruck University. The aim of the conference is to present and
>discuss a selection of case studies and theoretical approaches focusing
>on the relation between tourism and festivals in the context of the
>contemporary world(s).
>Since at least 12,000 BC, humans have been creating symbolic 'models' to
>explain their existence and their relations to the world; models to
>articulate and make meaningful the contradictive conditions of our
>loving, longing, suffering, hating, communicating, exchanging and
>'passing by'. These models are usually expressed and mediated through
>various forms of narration, aesthetic production and the festive
>enactment of legends and myths during moments of social concentration.
>Since the early 19th century, social scientists and philosophers have
>been interested in the links between these festively created forms of
>the poetic, aesthetic and artistic, and the social organisation of
>groups and societies. Such forms and practices have also long provided
>focal points for tourists; travellers of times and spaces that are
>seeking experiences, narrations and intercultural participation that
>make personal and collective worlds meaningful.
>
>Within this context, this conference aims to discuss academic meanings
>of the relation between tourism and festivals in a transnational
>context. Why do tourists go to festivals? How do they participate? What
>do they experience and through which forms of symbolic or semiotic
>frameworks do they make this experience meaningful? Do festivals become
>social nodes of a transnational culture, of a 'global village'? What is
>the meaning of the economic and symbolic exchange processes involved?
>Are there meta-narratives, and what is their ideological grounding, and
>their vision of the world?
>
>The conference welcomes case studies and theoretical explorations that
>address such questions. Themes for the conference include:
>
>tourism and festivals as transnational social phenomena;
>tourism as a global geographical extension of ritual processes;
>heritage, culture and nature as sacred spaces;
>festivals as transnational relations and exchange systems;
>cultural festivals as international institutions, utopias and
>doctrines;
>festivals as expressions of power;
>'cultural' festivals, tourism and societal life crisis;
>tourist participation in 'cultural' festivals and the communication of
>experience;
>the challenge of internationalisation to cultural values and
>organisation patterns.
>
>We welcome critical contestations and discussions of such themes and
>would particularly appreciate papers that are based on research data.
>Please send a 250 word abstract to Dr David Picard (d.picard at shu.ac.uk).
>The deadline to submit abstracts is the 5th of March 2004. Given the
>short notice, we will be accepting abstracts earlier to provide
>participants with more time.
>
>Conference convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard, Oliver Haid
>
>Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
>Sheffield Hallam University
>Howard Street - Owen Building
>Sheffield S1 1WB
>United Kingdom
>
>Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
>Fax +44 (0) 114 225 3343
>Email d.picard at shu.ac.uk
>
>
>FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE ON 'TOURISM & LITERATURE' IN HARROGATE, UK, FROM
>22-26 JULY 2004 --- MORE DETAILS AT WWW.TOURISM-CULTURE.COM
>
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>Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
>Sheffield Hallam University
>Howard Street - Owen Building
>Sheffield S1 1WB
>United Kingdom
>
>Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
>Fax +44 (0) 114 225 3343
>Email d.picard at shu.ac.uk
>
>
>Homepage des Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC)
><http://www.tourism-culture.com>
>
>URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
><http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=2458>
>
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