University of California, Berkeley
2015-2016 Calendar
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
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Colloquium featuring Patrick Naef
(Postdoctoral Scholar, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: Tourism and Violence: A Case Study of Medellin, Colombia
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Friday,
October 9
Colloquium featuring Stein R. Mathisen
(Professor of Culture Studies at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies,
UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Title: Northern Lights, Tourism, and Borealism
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Friday,
October 23
Colloquium featuring Shahrzad Shirvani
(PhD Student, Architecture and Environmental Design, UC Berkeley)
Title: Spaces of Veiled Freedom: Politics of Gender-Exclusive Parks in Tehran
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Friday,
November 6
Colloquium featuring Scott MacLeod
(Founder, World School and University)
Title: Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital
Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences
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Tuesday,
November 24
Colloquium featuring Yujie Zhu
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University)
Title: Marrying the Past:
In Search of Authenticity in Lijiang
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Friday,
December 11
Mini Symposium on Religion, Culture, and Heritage in Chinese Domestic Tourism
Prof. Ming-chun Ku
(Associate Professor, Sociology, National Tsing Hua University)
Suo Nan Cuo
(PhD Candidate, Xiamen University
Visiting Scholar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
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Wednesday,
January 27
Colloquium featuring Rita Ross
(Associate Director Emerita, Canadian Studies Program)
Title: From the Forest Primeval to the Spell of the Yukon:
Literary Tourism in Canada
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Friday,
January 29
C2016 SPRING SEMESTER ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
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Friday,
February 12
Colloquium featuring Jackie Feldman
(Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Title: Jewish Guide, Christian Pilgrim, Holy Land: Interreligious
Encounter on the Roads to Zion
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Friday,
February 26
Colloquium featuring Achva Stein
(Professor Emerita, Spitzer School of Architecture,
The City College of New York)
Title: Using the Economic Engine of Tourism to Protect,
Enhance
and Repair Damaged Environments
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Friday,
March 11
Panel on Alumni Travel from the Cal Discoveries Program
Title: Cal Adventures: A Case Study in Alumni Travel
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Friday,
March 18
Colloquium featuring Margaret Byrne Swain
(Professor Emerita, Women and Gender Studies,
University of California, Davis)
Title: Altruism & Pragmatism in
Trans-Disciplinary Tourism Studies:
Questions from Southwest
China and Beyond
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Friday,
March 25
Colloquium featuring Stéphane Gros
(Social Anthropology, Centre for Himalayan Studies,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Title: The Ambivalence of Heritage:
Objectification, Commodification,
and Loss of
Cultural Resources (Yunnan, China)
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Friday,
April 8
Colloquium featuring Athinodoros Chronis
(Professor, Marketing, California State University, Stanislaus)
Title: The Making of an Imperial City, Circa 2016
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Friday,
May 13
Colloquium featuring Fei LI
(Associate Professor, Literary Anthropology, Sichuan University, China)
Title: In the Name of Zangyin (Tibetan Silver):
Materiality and Identity in
Ethnic Tourism of Contemporary China
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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.
