[ecrea] cfp: The Production of Location

_Call for Papers:_

*The Production of Location*

The Eighth International Tourism and Media (ITAM) Conference

University of Liverpool, 5-7 July 2018

The eighth ITAM conference aim is to continue the network’s exploration 
of new ideas and debates sprung from the intersection between tourism 
industries and practices and those that broadly relate to the fields of 
media and communication. In this vein, the conference will aim to 
provide a forum where, taking their lead from Rodanthi Tzanelli’s 
concept of ‘global sign industries’ (2007), interdisciplinary research 
conversations gather pace around what are increasingly convergent fields 
of study and practice. While trends in scholarship on tourism and media 
are often reflective of discreet disciplinary dispositions, particularly 
those linked to perspectives in marketing and business, the necessarily 
open and ‘undisciplined’ terrain that defines the critical landscapes of 
media and tourism today demands a similarly open and undisciplined 
approach to keep pace with what is an ever-shifting and multi-stranded 
field of study.

The overarching theme of this conference is /The Production of Location/ 
and we invite contributions that critically addresses questions of 
cultural brokerage in media tourism whilst continuing to welcome 
submissions from the inter- and cross-disciplinary traffic that informs 
the research on media and tourism and addresses a range of topics 
pertinent to both areas.

*Dates: *5-7th July 2018

*Location*: School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK.

*Keynote:*Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli, Associate Professor of Cultural 
Sociology, University of Leeds 
(http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/tzanelli)

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by *_30th March 2018_ *to: 
(ITAM2018 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(ITAM2018 /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>

For enquiries please contact:

  * Dr Maria Månsson University of Lund, Sweden :
    (maria.mansson /at/ isk.lu.se) <mailto:(maria.mansson /at/ isk.lu.se)>
  * Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University, UK :
    (h.j.andrews /at/ ljmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(h.j.andrews /at/ ljmu.ac.uk)>
  * Dr Les Roberts, University of Liverpool, UK :
    (les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>

The conference fee is *£175* (conference meal and excursion optional 
extras TBC)

Further information will be posted on the conference website in due 
course: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/itam2018


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