University of California, Berkeley
2013-2014 Calendar
Friday,
September 20
Colloquium featuring Swetha Vijayakumar
(MS Student, History of Architecture and Urbanism, UC Berkeley)
Title: The Khajuraho Experience: Following the Flâneurs in Phantasmagoric Temples [read more]
Friday,
October 4
Colloquium featuring Nelson Graburn
(Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: When is Heritage Alive or Dead? Reanimation of the Ancient Silk Road [read more]
Friday,
November 8
Colloquium featuring Lisa Min
(Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Title: North Korean Holiday
[read more]
Friday,
November 15
Colloquium featuring Pablo Seward
(Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Title: Beyond Easter Island and Rapa Nui: The Ruins of the Present In A Contested Place
[read more]
Friday,
December 5
Colloquium featuring Habib Saidi
(Associate Professor, History, University of Laval)
Title: The Race for Primacy: Capitalness and Touristi-city in Ottawa,
Quebec City, and Elsewhere
[read more]
Friday,
January 24
Planning Meeting: Tourism and Eroticism Conference
[read more]
Thursday,
February 6
Planning Meeting: Tourism and Eroticism Conference
[read more]
Friday,
February 7
Colloquium featuring Jean-Francois Staszak
(Professor, Geography, University of Geneva)
Title: Sex Tourism in Colonial Casablanca: Bousbir, the Quartier Réservé
[read more]
Friday,
February 21
Colloquium featuring Andrea Zittlau
(University of Rostock, Germany)
Title: The Representation of Native America in German Museums
[read more]
Friday,
February 28
Colloquium featuring Estelle Brun
(Social Geography, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Title: Gazes of Americans Upon Pueblos and Navajo Cultures Through the Access of their World Heritage Sites, Mesa Verde and Caco Culture. A Window Into the Present by the Past?
[read more]
Wednesday,
April 16
Colloquium featuring Heidi Kaspar
(Professor and SNSF Mobility Postdoc, University of Zurich)
Title: Emotional Geographies of International Medical Travel:
Why Travel for Health?
[read more]
Friday,
April 18
Colloquium featuring Pan Shouyong
(Professor, Anthropology, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China)
Title: The Museum Boom in China:
Historical Overview and Current Issues
[read more]
Friday,
April 25
Colloquium featuring Dean MacCannell
(Professor Emeritus, Landscape Architecture, UC Davis)
Title: Way Off the Beaten Track, or How I Became a Tourism Researcher
[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.
