University of California, Berkeley
2017-2018 Calendar
Friday,
August 11
Colloquium featuring Na Gong
(Postdoc, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Title: The Tourist Motivations of Foreign Visiting Scholars and their Exotic Culture Experiences: A Case Study of Chinese Visiting Scholars at UC Berkeley
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Colloquium featuring Dean MacCannell
(Professor Emeritus, Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture, UC Davis)
Title: The Moral Economy of Tourism
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Friday,
September 8
Colloquium featuring Nelson Graburn
(Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
Title:
Rittoro Wārudo - Little World:
Too Much Authenticity for Playful Japanese Tourists
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Friday,
September 15
Colloquium featuring Hiroaki Matsuura
(Provost and Vice President, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Tourism,
Media, and Cultural Studies, Shoin University, Japan)
Title:Risk Communication and
Post-Disaster Tourism Recovery:
Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
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Friday,
October 6
Colloquium featuring Xiangchun Zheng
(Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming)
Title: Historical Narratives and Taste Making of Wine in a Yunnan Minority Area,
Southwest China: How a History of the Object Becomes the Tourism Attraction for Playful Japanese Tourists
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Friday,
October 20
Colloquium featuring Cynthia L. Van Gilder and Dana R. Herrera
(Anthropology, St. Mary's College of California)
Title: Hosts of Holiday: The Hawaiian Imaginary at The Cal
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Friday,
October 20
Colloquium featuring Cynthia L. Van Gilder and Dana R. Herrera
(Anthropology, St. Mary's College of California)
Title: Hosts of Holiday: The Hawaiian Imaginary at The Cal
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Friday,
November 3
Colloquium featuring Bert Gordon
(History, Mills College)
Title: Tourism and War: Fashioning Memory of the First World War in France
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Friday,
November 17
Seminar on Tourism Governance Organized by Amir Gohar
(Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley)
Title: Tourism Governance: A Book Project Exploring How Tourism Governance Shaped
Tourism Development Across The World
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Friday,
December 8
Colloquium featuring Hongmei Zhao
(Tourism Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China)
Title: The Host’s Imaginaries: The Case of “House-Planting”
in the World Heritage Site, Baisha [Lijiang]
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Friday,
January 26
Colloquium featuring Jing Ge
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: A New Cultural Revolution: Chinese Consumers' Internet and Social Media Use
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Friday,
February 16
Colloquium featuring Letizia Mattiacci
(Alla Madonna del Piatto Agriturismo and Cooking School)
Title: Cooking Atop A Magical Mountain: Sharing Heritage, Tradition and Culture Around the Kitchen Table
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Friday,
March 2
Colloquium featuring Stephanie Malia Hom
(Co-founder of the Tourism Studies Working Group
and Executive Director, Acus Foundation)
Title: Weaponized Mobility: Notes on the Camp in Modern Italy
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Friday,
March 16
Colloquium featuring Mark Primack
(Architect, Santa Cruz, CA)
Title: Cultivating Authenticity in the Belly of Paris: Tourism as Cultural Catalyst for Les Halles
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Friday,
April 27
Colloquium featuring Frederic Dimanche
(Hospitality and Tourism Management Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
Title: The Influence of Immigration on Tourism: The Case of Canada
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Friday,
May 4
Colloquium featuring Greg Fayard
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley)
Title: Roads to Ourselves: Travel and the Making of the Chinese Nation &
Fang Fang
(PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
Title: The Significance of Tourism Practice: Phenomenology on Tourism Studies
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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.
