[ecrea] annual tourism conference in Eastbourne on 13-15th June 2007

>Apologies for cross-posting...
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>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I am very pleased to extend a warm invitation to join us once again for our
>annual tourism conference in Eastbourne on 13-15th June 2007.
>
>This year's conference is entitled:  "Glancing, Glimpsing Gazing: tourists
>and tourism in a visual world." (http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2007/).
>
>1.  We are delighted that Professor Dean MacCannell has agreed to be the
>main keynote speaker.
>(http://lda.ucdavis.edu/people/websites/maccannell.html)
>
>2. We will be joined by Professor Erik Cohen, who will be sharing with us
>his thoughts on tourism and visuality.
>(http://sociology.huji.ac.il/cohen.html)
>
>3. In addition, Dr Sarah Pink, author of "Doing Visual Ethnography" will
>address the conference on visual methodologies including photography, video
>and hypermedia.
>  (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/pink.htm)
>  (http://www.sagepub.com/textbooksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book207900)
>
>4. As if that wasn't enough... Dr Christina Silver, Research Fellow at
>Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Network Project will
>run a workshop demonstrating several software programs that help analyse
>visual evidence (http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/christina_silver.htm).
>
>5. Papers, video installations, video films, photographic material, and
>posters are all welcome to be submitted on the following themes:
>
>* Visual research methodologies as the basis for enquiries into past and
>present
>* Representation as narrative and counter-narrative
>* Image, truth and illusion in tourism promotion
>* Gendered representation in leisure and tourism
>* Colonial, postcolonial, and subaltern studies related to tourism
>* Historic particularity and touristic imagery
>* Orientalism and the work of Edward Said as it applies to tourism and
>leisure
>* Photography as tourist performance
>* The dialectic between data and methods and the unpredictable reaction
>between them
>* Implications of ubiquitous digital image making and the emerging
>methodological implications
>
>Submission deadlines:
>ÃÜ    Abstracts - 15th Jan 2007 (+/- 300 words)
>ÃÜ    Conference Papers - 16th April 2007 (4,000 Æ 6,000 words)
>
>Given the topics and methodologies are likely to be cutting edge, we are
>also prepared to take seriously Rworks in progress, speculative pieces s and
>works where findings are as yet inconclusive.
>
>The participants have rated all of our previous conferences good or
>excellent, but we think this one is going to be simply stunning! We urge you
>to join us in what promises to be 'the' tourism conference of the 2007
>calendar.
>
>
>Professor Peter M Burns
>Conference Convenor
>
>Email: (tourismvisuality /at/ brighton.ac.uk)
>
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>Centre for Tourism Policy Studies
>www.centops.org

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