University of California, Berkeley
2014-2015 Calendar
Friday,
September 5
Colloquium featuring María José Andrade Suárez
(Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of A Coruña, Spain)
Title: The Social Construction of the Image of Rural Spaces-Destinations: Theoretical and Methodological Approach
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Friday,
October 3
Colloquium featuring Nelson Graburn
(Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: California Cuisine, or MacCannell in the Kitchen?
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Friday,
October 24
Colloquium featuring Jenny Chio
(Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Emory University)
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION:
农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness
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Monday,
November 3
2015 Conference - Call for Papers Deadline
Title: Worlds of Desire: The Eroticization of Tourist Sites
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Friday,
November 7
Colloquium featuring Laurence Michalak
Title: Is Tourism Good for Tunisia?
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Friday,
November 14
Colloquium featuring Catherine E. Covey
Title: Identity or "Gold"? Heritage Tourism and Performances of Indigeneity in Cusco, Peru
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Friday,
November 21
Colloquium featuring Swetha Vijayakumar
Title: Birth of a Hindu-National Temple: Convergence of Religion and Politics at Swaminarayan Akshardham ...and Sharhzad Shirvani
Title: Politics of Space:
Inconsistent Histories of Two Mausoleums
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Friday,
February 13
Colloquium featuring Shinji Yamashita
Title: Volunteer Tourism and Public Anthropology: In the Aftermath of the 3.11 East Japan Disaster
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Friday,
February 27
Colloquium featuring Shelly Steward
Title: Exploring Portland's Thrift Stores: Symbolic Meanings of Consumption and their Implications for Inequality
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Friday,
March 13
Colloquium featuring Stephanie Malia Hom
Title: The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy
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Friday,
April 3
Colloquium featuring Dean MacCannell
Title: The Heritage Thing: Tourism, Inequality, Democracy
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Friday,
April 10
Colloquium featuring Saskia Cousin
Title: When Vodun Fight Heritage:
Tourism, Heritage and the Master of Space in Porto-Novo, Benin
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Friday,
April 17
Colloquium featuring Gaël Chareyron, Saskia Cousin, and Sebastien Jacquotl
Title: Tourism and Big Data
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Friday,
April 24
Colloquium featuring Øystein Jensen
Title: Understanding Tourist Experiences – Just for “Tourist Researchers”?
An Intrusion from a Consumer Culture Theory Approach
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Friday,
May 1
Colloquium featuring Bert Gordon
Title: Tourism and "Heritage":
The Maginot Line
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June 24 - June 26, 2015
International Conference, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Worlds of Desire: The Eroticization of Tourist Sites La Fabrique des Lieux de Désir: l’érotisation des lieux touristiques
[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.
