[Commlist] Dark Tourism Research Symposium

The Tourism Department (the Business School) and the School of Arts and 
Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University are delighted to 
announce details of a dark tourism research symposium, which will take 
place at the Craiglockhart Campus at Edinburgh Napier University and 
online on May 5th, 2022.

A growing interest in dark tourism as a recognised special category of 
tourism behaviour continues to attract the attention of academics from a 
variety of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies and 
anthropology. Recent contributors to the field have looked at contexts 
such as gulag tourism in Kazakhstan, edutainment interpretation at 
‘lighter’ dark tourism attractions, the ethics and politics of digital 
displays in police museums, and the use of netnographic research methods 
to understand the motives and reactions of visitors to iconic Holocaust 
heritage sites.

This interdisciplinary symposium led by Professor Anne Schwan, Dr Craig 
Wight, and Dr Phiona Stanley seeks to bring together academics from a 
range of backgrounds to share ideas and recent research achievements as 
well as foster conversations between academic researchers and tourism or 
creative practitioners.

Speakers include:

Kat Brogan (Managing Director, Mercat Tours Edinburgh)
Professor John Lennon (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Professors Justin Piché (University of Ottawa) and Kevin Walby 
(University of Winnipeg)
Dr Brianna Wyatt (Oxford Brooks University)

The symposium organizers welcome theoretical or applied research 
contributions in the form of structured abstracts on the following topics:

Digital dark tourism, including, but not limited to netnographic 
research and the uses of social media and web 2.0 in dark tourism
Dark tourism and memory
Visitor motives and visitor interpretation
Ethics and social justice in relation to dark tourism sites
Prisons and other penal history sites as examples of dark tourism
Creative practice artefacts involving dark tourism, e.g. 
films/photographs/installations
Dark tourism, mobilities and pilgrimage
Novel research methodological approaches and dark tourism

*Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2022 *

*Please send your 250-word abstract and a short biographical statement 
(no more than 100 words) to (darktourism /at/ napier.ac.uk).
*

https://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-search/events/dark-tourism-research-symposium-memory-pilgrimage-and-the-digital-realm 
<https://www.napier.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-search/events/dark-tourism-research-symposium-memory-pilgrimage-and-the-digital-realm>
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