A Conversation with the editors of The Ethnography of Tourism:
Edward Bruner and Beyond
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Friday,
September 11
Colloquium featuring Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
(Department of Communications, University of California, San Diego)
Title: Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán
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Friday,
September 25
Colloquium featuring Bert Gordon
(Professory Emeritus, History, Mills College)
Title: Monuments, Memory, and Tourism
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Friday,
October 9
Colloquium featuring Shayan Lallani
(PhD Candidate, History, University of Ottawa)
Title: Caribbean Cultural Encounters in Early-to-Mid-Twentieth Century
Cruise Ship Tourism
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Friday,
October 23
Colloquium featuring Yujie Zhu
(Senior Lecturer, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies,
Australian National University)
Title: Memory, Homecoming and the
Politics of Diaspora Tourism in China
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Friday,
November 20
Colloquium featuring Yanqie Wei
(Ph.D. Candidate,
Minzu University of China, Beijing
and Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)
Title: Colonialism and Nationalism in Taiwan museums:
The National Taiwan Museum, the National History Museum
and the Taiwan National Museum
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Friday,
December 4
Colloquium featuring Gregory Fayard
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: Seeing the World and Finding Yourself:
Shifting Notions in Chinese Travel
Cruise Ship Tourism
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Friday,
December 11
Mini-Symposium featuring Yang Yang, Dean MacCannell, David Stein
Title: Tourism and COVID-19
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Friday,
December 18
Colloquium featuring Scott MacLeod
Title: Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies
with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study
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Colloquium featuring Yannis MIchaelides
Title: The Prevailing Impact of Mental Health
on Global Tourism & Culture
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Friday,
February 12
Colloquium featuring Edgar Alexandre da Cunha Bernardo
Title: Impacts and Perception of Cultural Heritage:
The Black Pottery of the
Douro Region, Portugal
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Friday,
February 19
Colloquium featuring Ngan Phan
Title: Tourist Experience of Authenticity at Vietnam War Sites
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Friday,
February 26
Colloquium featuring Yunzi Zhang
Title: Who am I and Who Should I Be? - The Issues of Constructing a Tourism Destination Identity of the Northern Mariana Islands
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Friday, March 5
Colloquium featuring K.H. Frankie Fan
Title: Tourism and the 'Indigeneity’ Debate in Taman Negara, Malaysia
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Friday, March 12
Colloquium featuring Filipa Fernandes
Title: “Tourists Have Fled!” Reflections on
Touristification in Lisbon, Portugal
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Friday, March 19
Colloquium featuring Robin DeLugan
Title: “How Nations Grapple with their Difficult Pasts: Public Sites of Historical Memory and the Tourist Gaze"
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Friday, April 2 (Note special time, 2-4PM)
Colloquium featuring Lina Tegtmeyer
Title: Scientific Notations:
Visual Semantics of Drawing and Photography
in Scientific Research, Proposing a New Method of Drawing and Photography
for Field Work Notes
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Friday, April 9
Colloquium featuring Xianghong Feng
Title: The Art of (Not) Being Governed:
Village Governance and Tourism Development in a Miao Village in China [read more]
Friday, April 16
Colloquium featuring Tami Blumenfield
Title: Impacts of Tourism on Health, Wellness, and Perceptions of Health in Mosuo Communities of Southwest China
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Friday, April 23
Colloquium featuring Helen Kapstein
Title: The Virtual Island: Remote Tourism on Robben Island
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Friday, May 7
Colloquium featuring Thomas Apchain
Title: When Authenticity Leads to Avoidance. A Microethnography of Favela-Tours
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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.
