Dear Colleague,


The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) in Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, is pleased to inform you about a number of forthcoming events and our new MA in Cultural Tourism. For further information please check the websites below.


International Conference: Human Rites and City Lights:

Balancing Socio-Cultural, Artistic, Tourism and Commercial Dimensions of Festivals

18 – 20 March 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia

Festivals and cultural events of all kinds are of growing interest to policy makers and practitioners in the arts, community development, regeneration and tourism. This interest and involvement gives rise to a number of critical questions concerning the relationships between these sectors in the development, management and evaluation of festivals and cultural events. The conference aims to share the latest research findings and debates in these areas of critical concern for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=1


International Conference: Traditions and Transformations:

Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region

4-7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan

Tourism is a well established phenomenon across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and despite political instabilities it demonstrates remarkable resilience. As well as being a major economic force, and a key driver for development, tourism is also an important mechanism for social exchange and identity building at both the individual and regional/national levels. Over recent years the rate of tourism development has increased substantively. Multinational investments in hotels, resort complexes and infrastructure, together with major heritage conservation projects are catalysing significant social changes, environmental changes and re-shaping new regional and international relationships. In the drive to develop tourism, culture(s) and heritage are being mobilised, landscapes and lives are being transformed, and traditions renegotiated.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=4


International Conference: Resorting to the Coast:

Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside

25-29 June 2009, Blackpool, United Kingdom

Globally, coastlines are arguably the most important sites for tourist activity and tourism development. The various combinations of sea and shore have become highly popular and successful attractions, and a majority of the world’s leisure tourists cling to these liminal spaces at the margins of the land. The lure of the ‘seaside’, the beach, and the resorts which have evolved to service and entertain tourists, is immensely powerful, reflecting a long standing but ever-changing relationship between humans and the oceans. The dominance of coastal tourism within the modern period has generated a wealth of issues which this conference seeks to address, including: The patterns and trends in how tourists mobilise the resources of sea, sand and shore; Ways in which coastal communities have adapted to tourism; Environmental degradation and regeneration of coastal regions and marine ecologies; The historical forms, structures and aesthetics of ‘seaside’ resorts; Regeneration of ‘historic’ resorts; Continuing multi-national development of ‘pristine’ coastlines; Inclusivities and exclusivities in coastal resorts; Changing beach and seaside holiday ‘traditions’.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=3


International Film Festival: 11th Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film

1-4 July 2009, Leeds, United Kingdom

The Royal Anthropological Institute’s 11th International Festival of Ethnographic Film which we host in Leeds (1-4 July 2009).

Themes include:

o Passions and Desires for Fluidity, Freedom, Friendship, Connection, Transhumance, Authenticity, Beauty;

o Passions and Flirts with Danger, Fear and Fantasy in Tourism and Travel;

o Passions and Transgressions: Eroticism, Liminality, Carnival, Violence and Power in Tourism and Travel;

o Passions and Joyful Sufferings: Epic Journeys, Mountain Liturgies and Touristic Activities that (may) Hurt;

o Passions and Stendhal Syndromes: Religious and Aesthetic Sublimation in Tourism, Pilgrimage and Travel;

o Passions and Consumptions: Pleasures and Symbolic Economies of Eating, Digesting, Excreting in Tourism;

o Passions and Morals in Tourism and Travel: Ambivalences of Encounter, Ethics, Moral and Legal Frames;

o Passions, Identity and the Making and Unmaking of ‘Passions’ in Culture and Social Performance;

o Economies and Politics of Passion in Tourism, Hospitality and Travel.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=2


International Conference: Emotion in Motion:

The Passions of Tourism, Travel and Movement

4-7 July 2009, Leeds, United Kingdom

This conference will address what we broadly identify as the passions and emotions induced by, or associated with, tourism, travel and movement. Tourism sets bodies in motion. It makes people move through unfamiliar grounds. It exposes them to exotic sensations, to the heat or cold of water, snow and sunshine, to odours, tastes, smells, colours, and forms that contrast with the aesthetics of their quotidian environments. It makes them leave their secure spaces of the familiar and exposes them, in secure doses, to the unfamiliar. It involves a transgression of the ordinary, an often ritualised temporary liquidification of moral and aesthetic rules that frame everyday life.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=2


New MA Course

MA Cultural Tourism

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change has developed an important and innovative Master’s qualification in Cultural Tourism which will allow you to take an informed position in contemporary theoretical debates and applied policy programmes focusing on tourism and its relationships with culture in its many forms and expressions. The course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, ideas, and awareness of contemporary policy contexts, together with the research skills and relevant practical applications relating to cultural tourism.

For more information please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/news_1.html


Kind regards

Jeremy


Jeremie Kuster

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK



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