UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group

Conference Schedule

October 7th, Friday
(Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held at the Townsend Center for the Humanities.)

Shifts

Cultural Changes

Movements Inside Out

A New Leisure Class?

Collective Imaginaries

October 8th, Saturday

Performing Destinations

Agencies

Consuming Experience

Negotiating Difference

Narrativity

(2430 Bancroft Way)

October 9th, Sunday

(Location: 150 University Hall)

(35 max, transportation provided)

Plenary Sessions

Opening Plenary Session, SHIFTS

(The University of West England, Human Geography)

'Tourism and the Social-Cultural Nexus of Gender Relations: A New Direction in Feminist and Gender Theory in Tourism Studies?'

(UC Berkeley, Anthropology)

'Inhabiting Simulacra: Authenticity and Enjoyment in Japan'

(UC Berkeley, Italian Studies & Comparative Literature)

Memorie sull'Egitto'

(UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Geography)

'A Political Ecology of Tourism'

(UC Santa Barbara, Art History)

'Touristic Subject/Aesthetic Subject'

Moderator: Nezar AlSayyad (UC Berkeley, Architecture & the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)

Closing Plenary Session, NARRATIVITY

(University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Anthropology)

'The Role of Narrative in Tourism'

(San Jose State University, Anthropology)

'Stories, Silk, and Lao Textile Tourism'

(Newnham College, Cambridge University)

'Travelling, Viewing, and Laughing: Tourism and Destabilization in Italy, c. 1750-1840'

(University of Luton)

(Universita di Roma Tre)

'From Travelogue to Travelblog: (Re)negotiating Tourist Identity'

(University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology)

'Seducation': Learning the Art of Telling Tourism Tales'

Moderator: Barbara Spackman (UC Berkeley, Italian Studies & Comparative Literature)

Panels

Panel 1A, CULTURAL CHANGES

(Graduate Theological Union)

'Remembering Paradise: Kuta's Life Passages'

(University of Connecticut, Anthropology)

'Tourism as Acculturative Change'

(Massey University, Geography)

'Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus'

(CSU-Chico, Anthropology)

'Reinvigorating Old Theories, as Putting Old Wine in New Bottles'

Moderator: Nelson Graburn (UC Berkeley, Anthropology)

Panel 1B, MOVEMENTS INSIDE OUT

(UC Berkeley, Anthropology)

'Are We There Yet?: Marc Auge', Non-Places, and Travel Spaces'

(Jordan University of Science and Technology, Architecture)

'Neoliberalism, Tourism, and Glocalization in the Middle East: 'Fantasy Cities and the Oriental Vision of the Occident'

(UC Riverside, Dance & Anthropology)

'Representations of Tourism in Yosemite: The Changing Nature of the Tourist Gaze'

(Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University)

'The World from My Room: Tourism and Intimacies of the Familiar'

Moderator: Robert Williams (UC Santa Barbara, Art History)

Panel 2A, A NEW LEISURE CLASS?

(UC Berkeley, Italian Studies)

'Leisure's Labor Lost: Tourism as Ideology'

(Pomona College, Anthropology)

'The Call to Adventure: Exploring the Appeal of Adventure Ecotourism'

(UC Irvine, English & Comparative Literature)

'Tourist Identification'

(Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University)

'Tourism and Social Class Revisited: The Poverty of Tourist Experience and the Immateriality of Place?'

Moderator: Dean MacCannell (UC Davis, Landscape Architecture)

Panel 2B, COLLECTIVE IMAGINARIES

(Trent University, Anthropology)

'Being Willingly Mobile'

(University of Michigan, Urban & Regional Planning, Museum Studies)

'The Traditional Home and Tourism Representation in Jordan'

(Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University)

'The World and its Gardens: Rethinking the Cultural Economics of International Tourism'

(UC Berkeley, Anthropology)

'Mapping Old Havana'

(Duke University, Anthropology)

'The Production of Naxi Heritage: A Study of Homestay Tourism in Lijiang, China'

Moderator: Susan Stonich (UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Geography)

Panel 3A, PERFORMING DESTINATIONS

(University of Derby, Geography)

'Journeys of Performance'

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Language, Literature, & Communication)

'The Incidental Tourist: Creating Religious Subjects in the Polynesian Cultural Center'

(York University, Architecture)

'Curating Place: Maps, Starchitecture, and Museums-Without-Borders'

(New York University, Performance Studies)

'My Heart's in Small Lands: Touring the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum'

Moderator: Clare Fischer (Graduate Theological Union)

Panel 3B, AGENCIES

(UC Berkeley, Hispanic Languages and Literatures)

'Dwelling in the Space of Tourist: Agency and the [Im]Possibility of Transgression'

(Mills College, History)

'Gender Tourism and the Hollywood Film Industry'

(Washington State University, Architecture & Construction Management)

'Travel Agency or Travelers' Agency? Tourism, Tourists, and the City'

(York University, Anthropology)

'Tourism and the Making of Ethnic Citizenship in Belize'

(University of Alberta, Music)

'Touring Musicians from Kerala, South India: How Identity and Tourism Mutually Reconfigure Subalternity'

Moderator: Naomi Leite (UC Berkeley, Anthropology)

Panel 4A, CONSUMING EXPERIENCE

(University of Hawai`i, Hilo, Geography)

'In the Lady's Seat: Cosmopolitan Women Travelers in Pakistan'

(Thompson Rivers University, English and Modern Languages)

'Cultural Narcissism as a Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Tourism'

(National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, Indigenous Cultures)

'East Encounters West: Taiwanese Study Tourist Cultural Experiences of Englishness-as-Otherness'

Moderator: Juliet Flower MacCannell (UC Irvine, English & Comparative Literature)

Panel 4B, NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE

(Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature)

'Other(ed) Bodies & Tourism Studies'

(Texas A&M University, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences)

'Bridging the Production-Consumption, Local-Global and Other Hyphens: an Integrated Approach to 'Tourism Studies'

(Texas State University, History)

'Municipal Planning and Heritage Tourism: Kanazawa's Search for Local Autonomy in the 1960s'

(UC Davis, Anthropology)

'Personal Dialectics in Tourism Analysis'

Moderator: Cara Aitchison (The University of West England, Human Geography)

Sponsors

Major funding for this conference has been provided by:

The University of California Humanities Research Institute

Co-sponsored by:
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Center for Middle Eastern Studies Department of Anthropology Institute for International Studies Center for Southeast Asia Studies Center for Latin American Studies Program in Italian Studies Department of Italian Studies UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly

Please note that there is no registration fee, and that this conference is open to the public. For more information, please contact tourism@berkeley.edu