Snapshot Traveler #124
June 2, 2008
Monthly Newsletter of the International Society for Travel
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THIS TIME:
Call For Conference Papers: Tourist (June 13), Psychogeographies (June 30), Writing Travel and Travellers (Aug. 15), Transatlantic – US/Britain 19th c (Aug. 15), Green 19th century (Oct. 3)
Call For Essays: New Journal – Scritture Migranti/Migrant Writing
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C A L L S F O R C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S
Attractions and Events as Catalysts for Regeneration
and
Social Change
The University of Nottingham, 24th and 25th September 2008
Organisers: Christel DeHaan Tourism & Travel Research Institute, University of Nottingham and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers who share interests in the role of tourist attractions and events in place making and shaping destinations. This research area is clearly relevant to professionals in the field including consultants, developers and local authorities.
The visitor economy is becoming increasingly competitive as destinations chase tourist spend. This is increasingly so in the context of ‘regional capitals’ which play a pivotal role in the regional economy, and ‘third cities’ whose visitor economy is often over-shadowed by the larger regional neighbours. Although tourism is seen as an integral part of regional development in these cities, they often compete for visitor expenditure in an environment of shrinking marketing investment and a volatile economic marketplace. Destinations have sought to differentiate their appeal on the basis of culture and heritage and/or events and festivals and seek to deliver 'a total visitor experience'.
We welcome papers for this conference which explore:
The role of regional capitals in driving the regional visitor economy / Delivering the total visitor experience / The potential for sustainable urban tourism through culture and heritage tourism / Creative uses of visitor attractions as focal points for regeneration programmes / Attractions and events and discourses of place shaping/making and the visitor economy / Major events and community cultural festivals as animators of place and tourist attractions / Planning dimensions of attractions and events development in urban and rural contexts / Community participation in attractions and events / Building sustainable partnerships and stakeholder relationships between tourism, culture and heritage in destinations / Managing attractions and events in sensitive sites / New and emerging technologies in attractions and events marketing and management / The role of festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism / Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city / Issues in conceiving museums and artistic venues as visitor attractions / Issues surrounding the 2012 London Olympics
The conference will form the academic stream of the European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) study visit and will provide the unique opportunity for researchers to network and share cutting edge ideas, innovation and critical thinking with the EUTO participants. The conference will include study visits as well as academic paper sessions. The study visits will focus on the role of culture in shaping destination image as Nottingham transforms into a cultural capital with ambitious projects such as Wollaton Hall, Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham & The New Art Exchange as well as a visit to Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest to see how ‘Living Legends’ can be used to stimulate the visitor economy.
Paper Submission:
Abstracts should be up to 250-300 words, 12 point, 1∏-line spaced and be formatted for printing on A4 paper. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday June 13th 2008 and successful authors will be notified by the end of June, 2008. A final paper of between 4 – 8,000 words is required by the end of August 2008 if authors wish to be included in the Conference Proceedings. All abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to ttri@nottingham.ac.uk
European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) Study Visit
Whilst TTRI and CTCC will organise this academic part of the conference, delegates are welcome to join the EUTO tourism practitioners and we will be jointly organising social functions to allow both groups to network.
The EUTO study visit runs from 21-28 September 2008 and will be held in both Nottingham and London. It will comprise study visits, presentations and workshops. Themes to be explored include the role of attractions & events in destination development & the Olympics 2012. There will be an opportunity to visit the O2 Arena by boat and learn about riverside regeneration en route to Europe’s largest family entertainment centre and Olympic 2012 venue. Explore Bankside, the Pool of London and the South Bank by foot to see how iconic attractions such as London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Vinopolis have helped create this vibrant destination.
A draft programme is currently available via www.EUTO.org
Delegate rates for The University of Nottingham (TTRI/CTCC conference)
24th and 25th September 2008 are:
Earlybird fee £230 + £40/night
accommodation;
Standard fee £250 + £40/night accommodation
For further information and a booking form for the
TTRI/CTCC conference,
please email Ann Lavin at: ttri@nottingham.ac.uk
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES:
The Terrain of Spectacle and Affect Graduate Student Conference
University
of Guelph, November 7-8, 2008
Guy Debord defines psychogeography as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. "As a way of negotiating the way place affects psyche, psychogeography holds particular resonance in the contemporary socio-political context. For example, globalization has widened the geographical environment, while in recent years there has been an increased rhetoric of defending the nation.
Given the current geo-political, critical and socio-economic environment, this interdisciplinary conference hopes to attract graduate students in Arts and Social Sciences who are interested in the ways space and subject, place and spectacle, negotiate with each other.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Affective (Dis)orders: The Resistance to Governmentalism - Exposing the Everyday - Constructions/Perceptions of the North - Flâneurs: Walking in Cityscapes - Patriotism and Civic Duties - Gentrifications - Writing on the Walls - Borders, Passports and TRAVEL - Place Conditioning - Migrant identities - Racialized Geographies - Internment Spectacles: State Control - Nation and Emotion Post-September 11th - Poe, Benjamin, Borges: Negotiating City Spaces - Flux and Psychotic Geography - Zoning - Ekphrastic Orientations - Urban Praxis/Rural Stasis - Olympic Pride - Intellectual Tourism - Billboards and Commodified Consumers - Dérive, Drift and Dadaism - Invasions/Inversions - Geo/Eco-Poetics
Send 250-400 word abstract and C.V. to:
psychgeo@uoguelph.ca
BY JUNE 30, 2008
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On the Road: Writing Travel and Travellers
International Conference
November
6-8, 2008, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
The Centre of Advanced Study in English, Jadavpur University, invites abstracts of papers for an International Conference on the theme of travel and travellers, to be held on 6-8 November 2008.
Papers may address any of the following range of themes, but should preferably be linked to a particular travel text or texts, whether verbal, visual, or in other material forms:
* The cultural politics of travel * Space and place in the experience of travel * Travel knowledge and power * Travel and hearsay * Places, peoples, objects under the traveller’s gaze * Travel as subjectivity: migrant, exile, nomad, ghumakkad, flâneur, planeur * Gendering travel * The travel book: publishing travel, reading travel * Vagabondage * Religious travel: pilgrimage, pabbaja, tirtha, yatra. * Travel, technology, tourism * Travelling hopefully: the future of travel
Travel places the traveller in relation to the material extent of the world, instituting a tension between space and place, extension and location, ‘centre’ and ‘margin’, ‘home’ and ‘away’, ‘us’ and ‘them’. How does power circulate in and between the spaces connected by the traveler? What are the economies that enable these encounters? As ‘othered’ space is viewed and recounted by the traveller, it is absorbed into a larger cultural imaginary, the space created by historical and creative writing, hearsay, news and audio-visual images. The ‘rumour’ of a place takes on a life as vivid as the place itself. The traveller’s experience itself has been theorized variously, by Deleuze and Guattari (the nomad), Rahul Sankrityayan (the ghumakkad), Chambers (the planeur), Clifford (the traveller), Benjamin (the flâneur), and Said (the exile). The writer’s subjectivity becomes as much a site of investigation as the places s/he describes. Travel writing has always been among the most popular of genres, linking travel narratives, the publishing world, the travel industry and its technologies, and different types of ‘tourist circuits’. In a world characterized by mobility, the satisfactions sought by sojourners are many – culture, sex, poverty, spirituality, health, danger, knowledge. Travel may even be seen as a defining condition of human society. Zygmunt Bauman observes that as globalization and localization increase, the element of ‘choice’ in movement defines the gap between the global rich and the global poor – the ‘tourist/ business traveller’ and the ‘vagabond’. In contrast, there is local diversity: witness the lower-middle-class tourist of India, traversing by bus on ‘package tours’, or the ‘armchair tourist’ who only reads about travel. We shall look at these many subcultures of travel, and reflect on the ‘degrees of choice’ – past, present, and future – of travel in our world.
We regret that we cannot offer travel assistance, but will provide hospitality over the days of the conference for most participants.
Email abstracts by August 15, 2008 for responses by September 15, 2008,
to: Rimi B. Chatterjee [rimibchatterjee@yahoo.co.in] or Abhijit
Gupta [offog1@gmail.com] or Nilanjana Deb [nilanjanadeb@yahoo
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Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders:
A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth Century
Transatlanticism
1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York November
7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University
Transatlantic Literary Influences:
American and British Literature from
the Long Nineteenth Century
This panel will examine transatlantic literary influence during the (long) nineteenth century. Influential friendships and correspondence emerged between American and British authors such as George Eliot and Harriett Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Popular authors such as Dickens and Thackeray made speaking tours of the United States (inspiring a generation of American writers) while noted American authors toured Europe; Henry James remained abroad and indelibly changed the face of both American and British literature. This panel invites papers that examine any aspect of transatlantic literary influence, including (but not limited to) friendships/correspondences, the widespread influence of particular authors and critics, and how each nation's copyright laws and publishing trends potentially shaped the other's.
Please
send abstracts of 250-500 words to susaneveray@gmail.com, no later than
August 15, 2008
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The Green Nineteenth Century
30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 26-28, 2009
We welcome paper and panel proposals concerning any aspect of “green” studies in the long nineteenth century, including, but not limited to “ecocriticism” in nineteenth-century studies; history of ecological science, environmental ethics, and environmentalist activism; nineteenth-century studies and animal welfare; ecofeminist philosophy and gender politics; contemporary discourses on nature; nineteenth-century ecotourism; Romantic “ecopoetics” and the politics of nature; “green” program music and tone poems; sustainability, including sustainable architecture and interior design; landscape painting and nature imagery; dramatic scenery; color associations and color theories; gardening and farming; conservation movements; and the idea of the “natural” or “unnatural.”
Equally welcome are proposals for papers and panels on Irish studies, earth-centered religions, the idea of the “new,” and other understandings of “green” studies in the nineteenth century.
Abstracts (no longer than 250 words) for 20-minute papers that provide author's name and paper title in heading, as well as a one-page c.v., due by Oct. 3, 2008 to:
Christine Roth, Program Chair
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
roth@uwosh.edu
Graduate students whose proposals are accepted can, at that point, submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for a travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses.
Bringing people together for conferences can impact the environment through the smog and greenhouse gas emissions associated with air and ground travel, as well as the paper, plastic, and food waste associated with the event. For this reason, the 30th annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association will also incorporate as many “green” options and resources as possible to reduce the conference-related environmental impact.
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C A L L F O R E S S A Y S
SCRITTURE MIGRANTI/MIGRANT WRITINGS
< rivista di scambi
interculturali /journal of intercultural exchange >
We are pleased to announce that a new journal dedicated to the literature of migration has recently been created at the University of Bologna (Italy) in the Department of Italian Literature. The journal’s primary goal is to analyze the effects of displacement on various types of writing, with special attention to how texts bridge multiple cultures and sensibilities, and therefore, contain within them intersecting cultural and historical references that constitute points of exchange as well as tension. The journal will also embrace work on film and theatre, as well as themes such as exile, diaspora, travel, and other complex transcultural forms of mobility, such as those informed by postcolonial conditions.
We maintain that such a project necessitates a specific investigation of the dynamic and surprising transformations that are currently taking place in Italian society, especially as these transformations in Italy are informed by—and inform— other cultures of migration that are part of the larger trend toward globalization in Europe and other geographical areas. As a result, contributions regarding all types of primary texts, produced in any location or any time period, are of potential interest.
Providing for a wide array of critical and creative contributions across a variety of disciplines, the journal accepts contributions in the main European languages year round. All submissions are evaluated by a committee of international referees as foreseen by the peer review process. Interested scholars may send their proposals and an indication of the specific section of the journal for which it should be considered, to the attention of Prof. Fulvio Pezzarossa, Dipartimento di Italianistica, Via Zamboni, 32 – 40126 Bologna, Italy redazione.scritturemigranti_at_unibo.it
To subscribe or to purchase individual editions: Casa Editrice Clueb scarl, Via Marsala, 31 – 40126 Bologna (Italy) c.c.p. 21716402, Tel +001 39 051 220736 Fax +001 39 051 237758 http://www.clueb.eu E-mail (purchases): clueb@clueb.com E-mail (information): info@clueb.com redazione.scritturemigranti@unibo.it
1/2007 – 216 pp. – € 20
INDICE/INDEX 1/2007: Editoriale SCRITTURE / WRITINGS Shirin
Ramzanali Fazel, La spiaggia Rebecca Hopkins, Transnational Global
Culture in La spiagga by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel LETTURE
/ READINGS Roberto Derobertis, Insorgenze letterarie nella disseminazione
delle migrazioni Contesti, definizioni e politiche culturali
delle scritture migranti Andrea Gazzoni, L’intentio epica
dell’esilio: Gëzim Hajdari Tiziana Morosetti, Migrazioni
accademiche: l’università come luogo utopico dell’incontro
interculturale Beatrice Furini, Il migrante in transito nella scrittura
di Emine Sevgi Özdamar VISIONI / VISIONS Monia
Acciari, Re-writing Shakespeare at the court of a Maharaja STRUMENTI
/ INSTRUMENTS Edward W. Said, Riflessioni sull’esilio Giuliana
Benvenuti, La condizione dell’esilio: l’intellettuale come «coscienza
critica» in Edward Said. PERCORSI / ROUTES Lorenzo
Luatti, Voci migranti nella letteratura italiana per ragazzi Luca
Bacchini, Sguardo esiliato
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R E C E N T W R I T I N G S
JOURNEYS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND TRAVEL WRITING
Published by Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford) http://www.berghahnbooks.com
Editorial Board: Robert C. Davis (Ohio State University), Maria Pia Di Bella
(CNRS-IRIS-EHESS, Paris) and Brian Yothers (University of Texas at El Paso)
Volume 8 Issue 1-2 (2007)
Beware of bandits! The perils of land travel
in the Roman Empire, Lincoln H. Blumell
‘Too Great a Morsell for Time to Devoure’:
Seventeenth-century surveys of the pyramids at Giza, Angus Vine
Global Captivities: Robert Knox’s An Historical
Relation of Ceylon and the New England Captivity Narrative Tradition, Brian
Yothers
Writing the end: Wilfred Thesiger, Freya Stark and
the ‘Arabist tradition’ , Ben Cocking
The Russian avant-garde, Maiakovskii, and the Maiakovskii
Museum, Andrew A. Gentes
Encounters with authentic Embera culture in Panama,
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Review Articles
San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails
and Coups: Henri Bergson’s theory of laughter and the problems of travel
guide humour, Benjamin Fraser
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BOOK REVIEWS
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R E G U L A R V E N U E S
Studies in Travel Writing. Tim Youngs, <Tim.Youngs@ntu.ac.uk>
Web
sites <http://www.studiesintravelwriting.com> for general
resources & discussions
and
<http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/STW/STWsubs.html> for subscription & submission
information
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, eds. Mike Robinson and Alison
Phipps
<http://www.channelviewpublications.net>
Journeys:
The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing,:
<http://www.berghahnbooksonline.com>
Editorial
matters <journeys@gmail.com>
Literary Traveler, Francis McGovern <http://www.literarytraveler.com>
Assn
for the Study of Travel Egypt and the Near East (ASTNE)
<http://www.astene.org.uk/>
Contact Janet Starkey <j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk>
Society
for American Travel Writing, Russ Pottle <acdean@sjasc.edu >
<http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/vsmith/SATW/>
Centre de
Recherches sur les Littératures de Voyage, Sorbonne
<http://www.crlv.org>
Peace Corps Writers journal <http://www.PeaceCorpsWriters.org>
H-Travel listserv
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-Travel
ISTW Madrid Conference (2007)
<http://www.ucm.es/info/FInglesa/Congreso%20Viajes/index.htm>
ISTW
Denver Conference (2006)
<http://www.mscd.edu/~hmt/new/travel.htm>
ISTW
Milwaukee Conference (2004)
<http://www.english.uwosh.edu/ISTW>
Penn Conference (1999) <http://www.english.upenn.edu/Conferences/Travel99>
Minnesota
Conference (1997)
<http://english.cla.umn.edu/TravelConf/home.html>
Betty
Hagglund is the co-editor of this newsletter
<betty.hagglund@btopenworld.com>
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