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2006-2007 Calendar Note: unless otherwise indicated, all colloquia are held in the Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall, at 4 PM. Friday, September 22 Fall Opening Reception and Organizational Meeting. All graduate students, faculty, and post-doctoral researchers involved in the academic study of tourism and travel are welcome to attend. Friday, October 13 Prof. Cristina Bacchilega (Chair, English, University of Hawaii at Manoa) Title: "Producing a Legendary Hawai‘i: Tradition and Translation in the Promotion of a U.S. Territory as Tourist Destination." Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Folklore Roundtable.
Title: "Golfing in the Desert: Los Cabos and the Turn in Mexican Tourism."
Title: "On Oakley Sunglasses, Fish Tattoos, and Salvage Anthropologists: Coral Reef Protection and Transculturation in a Madagascan Village."
Title: "Sharing Culture or Selling Culture? Developing the "Commodified Persona" in the Heritage Industry." Rachel Giraudo (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) Title: "Tourism and Cultural Heritage at the Tsodilo Hills: Marketing Intangibility at the Mountain of the Gods." Friday, January 26, 10AM - 5PM
Program and Additional Information
Title: "Gettysburg Toured and Imagined: Contesting and Shaping American Mythology in a Civil War Battlefield.”
Title: "On 'Sharing Culture': The Political Economy of Intercultural Display and the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Hamat'sa Dance." Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology.
Title: "War in Abeyance: The Habana Libre Hotel." Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Title: "Don't Go There! The 'Geography of Women's Fear' and Solo Travel."
Title: "Chocolate Tourism: A Problem in Historical Anthropology."
Title: "Flirting with Space: The Fleshiness of Journeys, Encounters, and Their Creativity."
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