2010-2021 Colloquium Series


The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce

2020-2020 Organizing Meeting

Friday, 28 August 2020, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Zoom Link: TBA

Dear colleagues,

We are planning an open meeting via ZOOM to discuss our program for the Fall Semester 2020. We presume that we will have our meetings at the same regular time, Fridays 5-7 pm, but as we are open to speakers from a wide range of time zones, it might suit some for us to meet 4-6 pm (like we used to).

We will post our U C Zoom link for everyone to join. Please be prepared to offer suggestions - via email before the meeting, if you want them discussed ahead of time. We hope to have our first events in September.

Possible Speakers - Fall 2020

Matilda Cordoba Azcarate (U C San Diego) New Book!
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan. (Berkeley: U C Press).

Bert Gordon, (Mills College) Forthcoming chapter
"Monuments and Memorialization," to appear in Michael Di Giovine, Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes, and Teresita Majewski, eds., Handbook on Heritage and Tourism (Routledge, 2021).

Shayan Lallani, PhD candidate in History at the University of Ottawa.
"The World on a Ship: Producing Cultural Encounters in the American Mass-Market Cruise Industry"

Greg Fayard U C Berkeley PhD, Sociology [later in the semester]
1) Comparison of contemporary Chinese road trips to classic American road trips
2) Discussion of authenticity and emotions of Chinese international travel (particularly Africa)

Nelson Graburn (graburn@berkeley.edu), Jing Ge (jingge@berkeley.edu), Mahlon Chute, and the rest of the committee!

TSWG 2020-2021 co-chairs,
Nelson Graburn
Jing Ge
Mahlon Chute