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University of California, Berkeley 2008-2009 Calendar Note: unless otherwise indicated, all colloquia are held in the Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall, at 4 PM. Friday, September 12 Fall Opening Meeting and Colloquium 3-6 pm 3-4 pm Organizational Meeting. All graduate students, faculty, and post-doctoral researchers involved in the academic study of tourism and travel are welcome to attend.
Mahlon W.L. Chute (Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara) Title: "Welcome to Fabulous Uptown Las Vegas: Plans for an Economic Revitalization of Las Vegas' Westside" Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly Symposium on Indigenous Tourism: "Cultural Tourism Movements: Articulating and Problematizing Indigeniety" Preliminary schedule available here Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Department of Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Native American Studies, the Division of Social Sciences, the Division of Arts and Humanities, Canadian Studies, the Institute for East Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of Rhetoric Friday, October 3 Workshop for grant proposals and applications Contact Jenny Chio to participate (jchio at berkeley) Friday, October 24 Colloquium featuring Dr. Ranjan Bandyopadhyay (Department of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism Management San Jose State University) Title: To Feel Like that Last Englishman in a Raj Era Bungalow: Consuming Colonial Nostalgia in India Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly Friday, October 31 Colloquium featuring Dr. Laura Bathurst (School of International Studies, University of the Pacific) Title: Perceptions of Greed: Development as Activist Tourism in Northern Bolivia Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly Friday, November 7 Symposium on History and Tourism in Mexico 3-7 pm Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Graduate Assembly Friday, November 14 Colloquium featuring Dr. Noel Salazar (Postdoctoral Fellow, Interculturalism, Migration and Minority Research Center, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven) Title: Envisioning Eden as a tourism imaginary or a cosmobile dream Friday, November 21 No-host Reception during the AAA Annual Meeting 6 pm Join us at the Redwood Room, in the Clift Hotel (one block from the AAA headquarters hotel), for informal drinks and to connect with colleagues. Walking directions from the Hilton San Francisco (333 O'Farrell Street) to the Redwood Room, Clift Hotel (495 Geary Street): Exit left from the main hotel entrance on O'Farrell Street. Take the first right onto Taylor Street, then the first right again onto Geary Street. The Clift Hotel will be on the right, and the Redwood Room is inside. Spring 2009 colloquia will be posted when scheduled. Please check back regularly. To receive announcements of upcoming events, enter your email address at left to be added to our email list. Only official TSWG event announcements are sent to the list. We do not share our mailing list with any other organization.
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