[ecrea] CFP: Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism, and Belonging

One week to get your abstracts in! Featuring keynotes by David Morley, 
André Jansson*, and Marie-Laure Ryan, and a special expert session on 
Fandom and Place with Cornel Sandvoss, Matt Hills, and Mark Duffett.


*POPULAR CULTURE, TOURISM, AND BELONGING*

*APRIL 5-7 2017*

*ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM*

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*Keynote Speakers:*

David Morley

André Jansson

Marie-Laure Ryan

When the small Dutch seaside village of Urk was announced as a filming 
location for superstar director Christopher Nolan’s historical drama 
/Dunkirk/, featuring One Direction star Harry Styles and other big 
names, it was unsurprising that reports of fans traveling in hopes of 
catching a glimpse of the production followed. Indeed, it would have 
been more surprising if they hadn’t. Visiting places connected to media 
is increasingly mainstream – from searching for film locations of 
popular TV shows to taking part in literary walking tours to traveling 
around summer music festivals. Popular culture sets the touristic 
identity of regions, while fan conventions and festivals draw increasing 
numbers (and prices) year after year. These developments, and others 
like them, point to a growing interest in bridging the gap between 
reality and imagination through physicality, intertwining them in new 
ways. They also illustrate new ways in which place, and its role in 
creating a sense of identity and belonging, matters in a globalized and 
digital world in which popular culture plays an integral role.

This conference brings together these disparate threads and explores the 
ways in which popular culture and tourism interact in the contemporary 
media age. This is reflected in the keynote speakers: Professor David 
Morley of Goldsmiths University, author of many influential works of 
media theory, including /The Nationwide Audience /(1980)//and /Media, 
Modernity, and Technology: the Geography of the New /(2007); Professor 
Andre Jansson of Karlstad University, editor of /Geographies of 
Communication: The Spatial Turn in Media Studies /(2006, with Jesper 
Falkheimer) and author of /Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies 
of Change /(2015, with Miyase Christensen); and Dr. Marie-Laure Ryan, 
author of /Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in 
Literature and Electronic Media /(2000)//and /Narrating 
Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet 
/(2016, with Kenneth Foote and Maoz Azaryahu).

The conference will also feature a special session on Fandom and Place, 
bringing together experts in the field to address the contemporary 
issues at this complex juncture. Our invited guests are Professor Cornel 
Sandvoss of the University of Huddersfield, author of /Fans: The Mirror 
of Consumption /(2005); Professor Matt Hills of the University of 
Huddersfield, author of /Fan Cultures /(2002); and Dr. Mark Duffett of 
the University of Chester, author of /Popular Music Fandom: Identities, 
Roles, and Practices /(2013)/./

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We seek to bring together scholars across disciplines, including, but 
not limited to, media studies, literary studies, popular music studies, 
ethnomusicology, cultural geography, fan studies, and tourism studies 
and management, who work at the intersections of (popular) culture, 
place, and tourism. We invite papers that address all themes around this 
subject, such as:

·fan pilgrimages

·place identity and popular culture

·contemporary literary tourism

·music tourism

·historical media tourism

·themed and simulated spaces

·music festivals

·video-game-inspired tourism

·media and fan conventions

·transmedia marketing and tourism

·place and storytelling

·media tourism in the media

The conference will be held at Erasmus University Rotterdam, in 
Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Recently chosen as one of the “best places 
to visit” by Lonely Planet and the New York Times, Rotterdam is a 
vibrant and cosmopolitan city featuring cutting-edge architecture, an 
innovative dining scene, and top-class art museums. The conference is 
organized by the ‘Locating Imagination’ research group of prof. dr. 
Stijn Reijnders, Leonieke Bolderman, Nicky van Es, and Abby Waysdorf, 
and sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 
(NWO) and the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and 
Culture (ERMeCC).

Please send abstracts of max. 300 words and a short biographical 
statement (max. 50 words) to (conference /at/ locatingimagination.com) 
<mailto:(conference /at/ locatingimagination.com)> before *November 1^st , 2016.*


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