TOURISM STUDIES WORKING GROUP COLLOQUIUM SERIES 

Note: unless otherwise indicated, all colloquia are held in Room 101, Archeological Research Facility, 2251 College Avenue (on the UC Berkeley campus), at 4 PM.

Friday, September 11

        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.

        4-6 pm First Fall Colloquium featuring Nelson Graburn
        (Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
        Prof. Nelson H. H. Graburn wil speak on recent developments in Tourism Studies.
        Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, September 25

        Colloquium featuring Rongling Ge
        (PhD Student, Anthropology, Xiamen University; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)
        Title: A Place of Nowhere: Spatial Practices in a Tourist Village in
                  Southwest China
        Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly and the Institute of East Asian Studies

Friday, October 9

        Colloquium featuring Scott MacLeod
        Title: Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet
                  and Globalization (Internetity)
        Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

        Scott MacLeod's talk will be webcast live to http://www.justin.tv/scottmacleod

Friday, October 23

        Colloquium featuring Mark Keck-Szajbel
        (PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley)
        Title: From Socialism to Schengen: East Bloc Tourism, 1972-1989
        Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, November 6

        International Conference Organizational Meeting

        Please join the TSWG as we meet to discuss the organization of our upcoming
        international conference, Tourism and Imagination (proposed October 19-22, 2010).
        The conference will be a collaborative project between UC Berkeley's Tourism
        Studies Working Group and Paris’ IREST (The Institute for Research and Advanced
        Studies in Tourism).

        This will be a great opportunity to be involved in conference organization, networking,
        and intellectual exchange. Refreshments will be served.

Friday, November 20

        Colloquium featuring Maki Tanaka
        (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
        Title: Comparative Aesthetics of Cityscapes: Havana and Trinidad, Cuba
        Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, January 29

          Colloquium featuring Bert Gordon
          (Professor of European History, Mills College)
          Title: War and the Tourist Gaze: Tourism, Memory, and World War II France
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, February 12 [Cancelled due to snow storm]

          Colloquium featuring Lisa Breglia
          (Assistant Professor, George Mason University)
          Title: Tourism: The Last Resort
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, February 26

          Colloquium featuring Laura Graham
          (Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Iow)
          Title: Making Collaborative Ethnographic Film: OWNERS OF THE WATER
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly

Friday, March 12

          Colloquium featuring Lena Mortensen
          (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto)
          Title: Celebrity Culture and Spectacular Science:
                 On the Trail of Maya Archeological Tourism
          Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley), Rosemary Joyce,
          the Graduate Assembly, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Friday, March 19 [new date added]

          Colloquium featuring Madina Regnault
          (Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)
          Title: Cultural Tourism Policies in Two French Overseas Territories:
                 Reunion and Mayottes Islands
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly
          [read more]

Friday, April 2

          Colloquium featuring Emily Moore
          (Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, UC Berkeley)
          Title: Totem Poles and 'Kodak Fiends': Reading the New Deal Totem Parks
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly
          [read more]

Friday, April 9

          Colloquium featuring Charlie Carroll
          (Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Transformation, Political Economy, and Social Practice,
          UC Berkeley)
          Title: Camping for the Production of Propogandists:
                  Writer's Training in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly
          [read more]

Friday, April 16 [rescheduled from Feb. 12]

          Colloquium featuring Lisa Breglia
          (Assistant Professor, George Mason University)
          Title: Tourism: The Last Resort
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly
          [read more]

Friday, April 23

          Colloquium featuring Crispin Thurlow
          (Ph.D. Cardiff University, Wales)
          Title: Tracing Space, Locating Self:
                  The Embodied (Inter)Actions of Tourism Discourse
          Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly
          [read more]

This colloquium series is co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. For more information about this event, or about our ongoing colloquium series, write to tourism@berkeley.edu.