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[ecrea] International Conference – “Locating Imagination: Media, Tourism, Rituals”

Tue Sep 10 08:43:09 GMT 2013


[Subject: International Conference – “Locating Imagination: Media, Tourism, Rituals”]

It is with great pleasure that we announce the international conference “Locating Imagination: Media, Tourism, Rituals” , which will take place on the 17th and 18th of October 2013. The theme of this conference is media tourism, the phenomenon of people travelling to places they associate with specific films, novels, songs or other media products. In addition, research will be presented on the related themes of media rituals and dark tourism. The conference is hosted by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Research school for Media Studies (RMeS). The lectures and discussions will take place at Hotel New York, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Through this writing, we would like to invite interested scholars and students to join our inspiring keynotes delivered by Matt Hills on fan pilgrimages , Sue Beeton on the state-of-the-art in film tourism research, and Nicola Watson on the history of literary tourism. In addition, five PhD students will present their latest research results. Their work will be critically reviewed by Johanna Sumiala, Susanne Janssen, Hilde van den Bulck and Anne Marit Waade who will spark the discussion. Below you can find a short introduction on each of the aforementioned scholars.


The program is as followed:

DAY 1 – Thursday 17th of October
The afternoon-sessions will start at 13:00 in the Tushinski I room at Hotel New York and will consist out of two keynotes and three presentations on recently conducted research in the field of media tourism. These presentations will take about 30 minutes, followed by a 15 minute public discussion. After these sessions you are welcome to join us for a social drink-or-two!

13:00

Stijn Reijnders

Opening Conference

13:00-13:45
Sue Beeton

Keynote on Film Tourism
13:45-14:30
Abby Waysdorf

TV Tourism: Game of Thrones
14:30-15:15
Leonieke Bolderman Music Tourism: Have you found what you are looking for?
15:15-15:30
Break

- -
15:30-16:15
Nicky van Es

Literary Tourism: Capital Crime Cities
16:15-17:00
Nicola Watson

Keynote on Literary Tourism

17:00-18:00
Social Drinks

At Hotel New York -


DAY 2 – Friday 18th of October
On the second day, the morning-sessions will involve a keynote by prof. dr. M. Hills, followed by presentations on recent research in the fields of dark tourism and contemporary media rituals.

09:30-10:15
Matt Hills

Keynote on Fan Cultures

10:15-11:00
Maloe Sniekers

Dark Tourism: Analyzing Crime Tours

11:00-11:15
Break

- -
11:15-12:00
Balazs Boross

Media Rituals: Mediated Coming-Out

12:00-12:15
Stijn Reijnders

Closing Words


If you are interested and looking forward to being part of this event, you can sign up and/or ask for more details by sending an email to: (vanes /at/ eshcc.eur.nl). Participation is free of cost, but registration is required. Deadline for registration is October 1st 2013, and taking into account that we have a maximum total amount of guests, requests will be honoured on a first-come-first-served basis.

Best regards,


Stijn Reijnders, Associate Professor Cultural Heritage
Maloe Sniekers, PhD Candidate Dark Tourism
Balazs Boross, PhD Candidate Media Rituals
Leonieke Bolderman, PhD Candidate Music Tourism
Abby Waysdorf, PhD Candidate Film Tourism
and Nicky van Es, PhD Candidate Literary Tourism


Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.locatingimagination.com/




Introductions

DR. MATT HILLS is Professor of Film and Television Studies and Leader of the Film & Television Research Group at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He is the author of, among others, Fan Cultures (2002), The Pleasures of Horror (2005), and Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the 21st Century (2010), and is recognized as one of the leading scholars on cult media texts, fans, and their relations.

DR. SUE BEETON is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law at La Trobe Business School in Melbourne, Australia. She is one of the leading researchers in the field of film-related tourism, having written the book Film-Induced Tourism (2005), published articles, and edited journals on the topic. Additionally, she has published on a range of other tourism-related issues, such as rural tourism and tourism and community development.

DR. NICOLA WATSON is a Professor in the English Department at the Open University in the United Kingdom. Her focus is on the romantic period in English literature, with a particular focus on transformation and adaptation of literary texts. She is the author of, among other books, The Literary Tourist: Readers & Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain (2006) and is currently expanding that research to literary tourism in the USA.

DR. JOHANNA SUMIALA is Assistant Professor and Kone Foundation Senior Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. With a research interest and expertise in the fields of media anthropology, media and religion, visual culture and media history, she has participated in several international comparative projects including the current research titled Youth Street Politics in the Media Age. She has recently published articles on mediatized violence and ritualized (online) communication, and she is the author of the book Media and Ritual: Death, Community and Everyday Life published by London Routledge in 2012.

DR. SUSANNE JANSSEN is Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research activities lie in the fields of cultural sociology, media and communications research, and the sociology of the arts and literature. In 2003, she received the prestigious VICI grant for the research project Cultural Classification Systems in Transition, a large-scale, longitudinal and cross-national study into the social valuation of cultural products in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. Since September 2010, she serves as director of an international collaborative research project on Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPID).

DR. HILDE VAN DEN BUCLK is Professor of Communication Studies and head of the Research Group Media, Policy and Culture at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Hilde has complementary expertise in media structures and processes, and in media culture. In the first area she is specialized in broadcast structures, political economy and policies. In the latter area she is specialized in the role of media and celebrities in culture and society in general, and in collective identities in particular. In these areas she obtained several research grants and has published in ranked, academic journals as well as in books.

DR. ANNE MARIT WAADE is Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research falls within the areas of media aesthetics, visual culture, mediated tourism and branding culture. She has recently published articles on crime fiction series, crime tourism and travel series, she has co-published the book Medier og turisme/Media and Tourism with Jakob Linaa Jensen (2009), and co-edited two books, Re-Investing Authenticity (2010) and Den Skandinaviske krimi: Bestseller og blockbuster. Her book Wallanderland will be published in 2012.



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