News Archive February 2008
28/02/2008
Women Travellers and Women's Travel Writing – Call for papers
The deadline for proposals for the one day seminar on Women Travellers in India has been extended to Monday 3rd March.
As part of the Maria Graham research project, the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University will be hosting three one-day seminars in 2008. These will focus on women travellers to each of the three principal regions that Maria Graham visited and wrote about: Italy, India and Latin America. The CTWS accordingly invites proposals for 20 minute papers that consider any aspect of women's travel, or women's travel writing, relating to each of these regions. The papers can approach the topic from any disciplinary angle, and can focus on any historical period.
The Women Travellers in India seminar will be held on Wednesday 30th April 2008. The extended deadline for paper proposals is Monday 3rd March 2008 || The Women Travellers in Latin America will be held in November 2008. The precise date has not yet been finalised, but will be announced shortly. To offer a paper, or for more information, please contact Dr Carl Thompson carl.thompson@ntu.ac.uk
24/02/2008
Migrations économiques, migrations politiques : une distinction à repenser ?
Vendredi 4avril 2008 | Centre universitaire Jean-François Champollion (Albi) | Maison du multimédia
Cet atelier aura pour objectif d'explorer les similitudes ou au contraire les divergences entre migrations « économiques » et migrations «politiques ». On y comparera donc des exils dus à des conflits ou à des persécutions politiques, religieuses et/ou ethniques, et d'autres situations migratoires, également porteuses de déracinement et d'exil, mais provoquées par la misère ou autres facteurs généralement considérés comme économiques. Il portera pour l'essentiel sur le cas des migrations espagnoles du XIXe et XXe siècles et en particulier des migrations pendant et après la guerre civile de 1936-1939, sans exclure pour autant les exemples d'autres flux ayant touchés le continent européen.
Direction scientifique : Laure Teulieres et Bruno Vargas | Secrétariat : Karen Chevalier. e-mail : karen.chevalier@univ-jfc.fr
23/02/2008
Mobilités, Identités, Altérités
13, 14, 15 mars 2008 à Rennes, Université Rennes 2 – Ampli L 3 (Bât. L) (Tous les ateliers se dérouleront en Amphi L3). Jeudi 13 mars 2008. Accueil 13 h 15 Séance d’ouverture
Le huitième colloque du groupe de travail « Mobilités spatiales et Fluidités sociales » (GT23) de l’Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF) se tiendra à Rennes les 13, 14 et 15 mars 2008. Ce colloque centré sur la thématique « Mobilités, identités, altérités » est envisagé comme une rencontre interdisciplinaire visant à faire dialoguer sociologues, géographes, psychologues, aménageurs, etc. ainsi que les divers acteurs territoriaux concernés dans leurs pratiques par cette thématique
Sandrine Depeau | courriel : sandrine [point] depeau (at) univ-rennes2 [point] fr
22/02/2008
Appel à contributions du numéro 4-2008 d'Articulo.ch - revue de sciences humaines (« Le Paradis sur Terre » ? Une géographie culturelle et politique du tourisme)
Fondée en 2005, Articulo.ch est une revue à comité de lecture dont le projet est d’interroger le quotidien en tant que « fait social total ». Trois numéros thématiques (Approches plurielles du quotidien ; Dimensions sociales de l’économie ; Avant-gardes et élites : agents de reproduction ou de transformation de la société ?) sont parus depuis lors.
Vous trouverez une présentation plus détaillée des objectifs de la ligne éditoriale à cette adresse (http://www.articulo.ch/index.php?cat=Manifeste) ainsi que la composition des comités scientifiques et éditoriaux qui garantissent la scientificité des articles publiés (http://articulo.ch/index.php?cat=Presentation)
21/02/2008
The Mobile City conference
27 & 28 February 2008 | NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.themobilecity.nl
20/02/2008
International Conference - Advances in Tourism Research 2008 - CALL FOR PAPERS
May 26-28, 2008 | Aveiro - Portugal
www.iask-web.org
19/02/2008
7th eTourism Futures Forum. Exploring the Information Communication Technologies Revolution and Visioning the Future for the Tourism, Travel And Hospitality Industries
Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April 2008. Location: Room DG02, Talbot Campus. International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR). School of Services Management, Bournemouth University.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/icthr/eTourismForum.pdf
8/02/2008
Immobilities: new challenges for anthropology in a globalised world (P3) - Call for papers
Young Scholars Plenary Session at The 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 26 to 30 August in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Abstract
This plenary aims to examine mobilities as an object of anthropological study in a globalised world. The plenary welcomes ethnographic case studies where mobilities and immobilities are at play.
Today's world is on the move. People, ideas, images, information, objects, symbols and capitals circulate in complex material and virtual flows around the planet.
Whether for pleasure or work, desired or forced, physical or virtual, mobility seems to have become the new condition of a globalised world (Bauman, 1994; Shéller and Urry, 2006). In such a mobile world, the capacity to move and to circulate becomes essential. Being mobile or immobile changes our perception of what is proximal and distant, it redefines boundaries, identities and, with them, our sense of belonging. The dialectics between mobilities and immobilities thus becomes an exceptional standpoint to reveal the diversity, inequalities and differences in the way we live and experience a globalised world. But, how can we gain ethnographic knowledge about this dialectic? How could ethnographic knowledge contribute to the understanding of mobilities and immobilities? And contrariwise: how does this new mobile condition affect ethnographic principles and techniques? How to define anthropological locations in this mobile world.
Information about the event and how to participate
17/02/2008
Interdisciplinary Workshop Series “Major Concepts in Tourism Research”
March to May 2008, Leeds/ UK
Much research in the field of tourism addresses at least one of the following concepts: Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience. Although these concepts are very popular, it is not at all obvious what they actually refer to, and how we may be able to grasp them in our research.
Therefore, the PhD-students at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University are organising four workshops. Each of these workshops will extend over two days during which we will discuss intensively one of these concepts. These discussions will be based to a large extent on the contributions of the participants. Thus, we invite PhD-students from all disciplines to present short papers. PhD-students may also contribute ideas and critiques of articles, which we will distribute before the workshops. The contributions do not have to be polished conference papers but can be presentations of ideas related to the particular workshop theme. The papers will be circulated among the other participants 10 days before the respective workshop to promote lively and engaged discussion. People can also attend without presenting any formal contribution.
Furthermore, we have invited an expert on the specific topic for each workshop to give an introductory keynote and lead the discussions. On the basis of their introductions we will explore meanings and different approaches to the concepts. This constitutes a unique opportunity for PhD-students to get feedback on their reflections and work in progress by leading academics and other PhD-students, sharing and developing ideas in relation to the four themes addressed.
Cost: £20.00 for one workshop. You can also register for all four workshops for £60.00.
Please register for one single workshop or the whole series not later than 17 February 2008 by either sending an abstract of about 200 words or stating how you relate to the topic of the workshop. Please note that the date for submission of the papers and contributions for the first workshop is 29th February 2008. E-Mail: C.Mueller@leedsmet.ac.uk
Timetable of the Workshop-Series
13/14 March 2008 Workshop “Experience”. Keynote: Claudio Minca, University of London: “After the Island: the hard work of being (with) tourists”
3/4 April 2008 Workshop “Exchange”. Keynote: Keith Hart, Goldsmith College London: "On commoditization: exchange in the human economy"
17/18 April 2008 Workshop “Memory”: Keynote. Sharon MacDonald, ManchesterUniversity: “Memory, Materiality and Tourism”
8/9 May 2008 Workshop “Representation”. Keynote: David Crouch, University of Derby: “The Problems with Representation: Consumption, Space and Images”
16/02/2008
Le séminaire "Tourisme : Recherches, Institutions, Pratiques"
EHESS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris
Saskia Cousin (IIAC-LAIOS / CITERES, anthropologue, mcf à l’Université François-Rabelais);
Bertrand Réau (CRIS / CSE, sociologue, mcf à l’Université de Lyon-I)
programme de l'année 2007-2008
1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h (salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, sauf le 15 mai en salle 015),
du 15 novembre au 19 juin.
Renseignements : saskia.cousin@univ-tours.fr
À la suite de la conférence de l’an dernier, nous poursuivrons notre exploration des recherches menées sur le tourisme. Il s’agira de confronter des enquêtes qualitatives et quantitatives, de comparer des terrains issus d’aires géographiques variées, de croiser les approches disciplinaires. Nous chercherons à identifier quelques notions interprétatives susceptibles d’aider à la compréhension des phénomènes de mobilité touristique, de leur organisation et de leurs enjeux politiques, économiques et sociaux.
Nous alternerons les travaux de chercheurs confirmés et les travaux de doctorants. Les séances seront organisées autour de la présentation de ses recherches par un intervenant, suivie d’une mise en perspective avec un discutant, et d’une discussion avec les participants.
Domaine : Anthropologie. Séminaire ouvert aux étudiants de master.
Programme de l’année 2007/2008
15/11- Michel Picard, chargé de recherche en anthropologie (Centre Asie du Sud-Est, CNRS-EHESS) : « L'identité balinaise à l'épreuve du tourisme : du 'Tourisme Culturel' (Pariwisata Budaya) à 'Bali Debout' (Ajeg Bali) »
6/12- « Nouvelles Frontières du Tourisme ? ». Présentation du numéro des Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales de décembre 2007 avec plusieurs auteurs.
20/12- Olivier Evrard, chargé de recherche en anthropologie (IRD) : « Monarques, Moines et Montagnards. Tourisme domestique, identités locales et colonialisme interne en Thaïlande. »
17/01- Maïe Gerardot , doctorante en géographie (MIT) : « L'urbanité touristifiée ».
Bertrand Réau : Présentation d’ouvrages récents sur le tourisme.
7/02- Igor Tchoukarine, doctorant en histoire (CERCEC-EHESS / CEFRES) : « Le tourisme dans le socialisme (Yougoslavie et Tchécoslovaquie) : entre contrôle et autonomie. »
Anna Kropotkine, doctorante (CERCEC-EHESS) : « La réhabilitation des monuments anciens à des fins touristiques pendant le Dégel (années cinquante -soixante) en URSS. »
21/02- Frédéric Delaive, docteur en histoire (CERHIO, Université de Rennes 2) : « Imaginaires du voyage et exotismes aux origines du canotage et de la navigation de plaisance ».
6/03- Bertrand Réau : « Eléments pour une analyse du recrutement et des pratiques de travail dans le secteur du tourisme. »
20/03- Catherine Bertho-Lavenir, professeur d’histoire contemporaine (Université de Paris III), « Le plaisir comme moteur du voyage automobile. »
3/04- Saskia Cousin : « Le tourisme à l’épreuve du politique : approches internationales. »
15/05- : Jean-Didier Urbain, professeur de linguistique (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) : « pratiques du voyage et structures narratives. » salle 015
5/06- Olivier Sirost, maître de conférence en STAPS (Université de la Méditerranée) : « Camper en France: du stéréotype des vacances populaires à la distinction à l'envers. »
19 /06- Mohamed Habib Saidi, professeur d’ethnologie (Université de Laval, Canada) : « De la dissonance touristique à la dissidence politique : l’État, le tourisme et les images dans un contexte de changement. »
16/02/2008
An arts-based seminar on the ethnography of walking - ‘Roam: a Festival of Walking’
15-17th March 2008, Loughborough University
During the weekend of the 15-16th March 2008 Loughborough University’s RADAR arts centre is hosting Roam: a Festival of Walking, which hosts the work of several artists who make walking is central to their practice (Tim Brennan, Duncan Speakman, Active Ingredient, Lottie Childs, Mark Gwynne Jones, Claire Blundell Jones) and a Walking Fair.
In conjunction with this walking festival, we are organising a one-day seminar to be held on Monday 17th March 2008, at Loughborough University. The seminar is open both to participants who have been involved in the weekend walks and to others on a one-day only basis. Invited speakers will discuss ‘the arts of walking’, and what this means for an understanding of everyday walking. Reflecting the contemporary interest in walking, across the social sciences and humanities, the seminar aims to create new connections between approaches to walking in academic and arts practice. We are interested in exploring themes that include:
* Walking as place-making: Walking has often been theorised as a form a place-making. How might such interpretations be applied to the work of artists whose practice involves walking? What might walking as art tell us about how walking can be understood as a way of participating in power relationships?
* Walking as ethnographic practice: Ethnographers and anthropological filmmakers often walk with others as part of their efforts to learn about and represent how people experience their environments. What do these academic practices share with the methodologies of artists who engage walking as part of their practice? Are there parallels between arts practice and ethnographic practice? What might ethnographers learn from artists about how walking might be engaged in processes of research and representation.
Speakers: Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University), Andrew Irving (University of Manchester), Simon Pope (Cardiff School of Art and Design) and Misha Myers (Dartington College of Art)
The seminar is organised by an interdisciplinary group whose work is based in Social Anthropology (Sarah Pink), Social Psychology (Alan Radley), Social Geography (Phil Hubbard) and Sociology/Cultural Criminology (Maggie O’Neill).
To book a place at the seminar please e-mail radar.info@lboro.ac.uk with your name and institutional affiliation. There is no charge for the event and a buffet lunch is provided. Else, we regret we cannot cover any travel or associated expenses
15/02/2008
The Secondary Migration of non-EU nationals in Europe
ippr, 30 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA
11.30am-5pm, Tuesday 22nd April 2008
While secondary migration has received attention from academics, in the UK there has been little policy debate about it. Yet significant numbers of non-EU nationals do migrate from one EU state to another and the UK appears to be a popular destination for secondary migrants. The UK's Somali, Congolese, Tamil, Nigerian and Latin American communities include significant numbers of people who have migrated from elsewhere in Europe. This seminar will examine this 'hidden' migratory movement. In particular it will: map and define who are secondary migrants; present new research on this issue, and debate the public policy implications of the secondary migration of non-EU nationals in Europe.
Speakers include Anna Lindley and Nick Van Hear, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford and Jill Rutter, Institute for Public Policy Research.
For further information and to book a place, please contact Jill Rutter,
Migration and Equalities Team j.rutter@ippr.org or 0207 470 6121
14/02/2008
BARCELONA: VISUAL CULTURES, SPACE AND POWER - Conference
Conference, IGRS, 32 Russsell Square, London WC1E 7HU 14-15 March 2008
Barcelona has often been seen as a model for C20 urban regeneration, particularly in its role as Olympic city and a city marked by vivid visual cultures. But how do its artists – filmmakers, playwrights, dancers and visual poets represent the city and the relationships between aesthetics space and power in the C20 and C21 centuries? How do such issues play out in the urban environment and how are they theorized by critical commentators? The IGRS/University of London conference ‘Barcelona: visual cultures, space and power’, March 14-15, 2008 at the IGRS, 32 Russell Square, London WC1E 7HU looks at these and associated themes via academic papers and artistic interventions.
Keynote speakers include Maria Delgado on Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geography and Identity, Stephen Hart on Splitting the Atom of the Avant-garde and Teresa Vilarós Soler on the 1967 film Dante no es únicamente severo [Dante is not uniquely severe].
Please note some papers will be in Spanish or Catalan but English main point summaries will be provided. Artistic interventions include Directed reading of Pau Miró’s It’s Raining in Barcelona by Jerwood prize-winning director Amy Hodgence, exploration Geografías by Barcelona-based Ángels Margarit/Mudances, isual poetry panel with J.M. Calleja, Xavier Canals and Gustavo Vega,
Visit to British Library exhibition Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937
For more information please visit http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_contemporary_barcelona.htm.
14/02/2008
International Summer School in Forced Migration
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford , 30 June–18 July 2008
Applications are invited for this year’s International Summer School in Forced
Migration, to be held at Wadham College, Oxford. Apply by 1 March (bursary
applicants), 1 May (self-/employer-funded applicants). Now in its 19th year,
the course offers an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to
the study of forced migration. It aims to enable people working with refugees
and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions
that dominate the world of the displaced.
Participants: Experienced practitioners involved with assistance and policymaking for forced
migrants. Graduate researchers specialising in the study of forced migration.
For further information, please click on:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?teaching_summer
13/02/2008
Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG) - Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
From 2008 onwards, the GLTRG intend to offer an annual prize of £100 for
the best Undergraduate Dissertation in Leisure/Tourism/Sports Geography,
submitted as part of a BA, BSc or Bed degree in a geographical subject.
Entries should be accompanied by a copy of the instructions given to
students, and a note of the dissertation credit rating and mark awarded.
Please also include a (post-September) contact address for the student. A
department should not normally submit more than one entry.
Closing date: 18 July 2008
Further details please contact Dr. Jacky Tivers, Chair of GLTRG
(jacky.tivers@ntu.ac.uk)
12/02/2008
Invitation to submit to a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Articles are invited to be considered for publication in a special issue of thejournal Gender and Education. The theme of the issue is Gender, Education, and Forced Migration. The proposed special issue will examine the gendered impactsof educational policy and practice enacted in response to forced migration. Submissions may analyze education policy and practice in any region ofthe world experiencing the loss or gain of populations due to forcedmigration. Key themes to be explored include: - The gendered impacts of shifting relations of power betweencommunities (defined along ethnic, racial, religious, and/or nationallines) brought about by forced migration and realized througheducational policy and practice;- Impacts of gender specific education policy upon (receiving anddisplaced) communities;- The role education policy and practice play in shaping gendereddynamics of transnationality among and between forced migrant populations;- Schooling as a site and process of gender negotiation within migrantand/or receiving populations Articles should be no longer than 5,000-6,000 words in length includingabstract, keywords, notes and references. Initial abstracts are to besubmitted by March 1st. Subsequent proposed articles should be submittedby June 1st of 2008 in 'publishable form' to facilitate the editorialprocess. Please observe the Routledge style guidelines exactly (seehttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cgeeauth.asp for further details).Final papers will be due by the 15th of November, 2008. Proposed abstracts andarticles should be submitted as an email attachment (and not in hard copy) inMicrosoft Word RTF to pbuck@bates.edu. Contributors should bear in mind thatthey are addressing an international audience. Articles should not be presentlyunder consideration for publication elsewhere. For any queries regarding theprocess please contact guest editor, Patricia Buck at pbuck@bates.edu BatesCollege & Technical Advisor for Educational Programming CARE Kenya DadaabRefugee Camps Dadaab, Kenya For further information on Gender and Education please visit:http://www.informaworld.com/GandE
11/02/2008
HEALTH IN TOURISM AND LEISURE - Final call for papers
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, 27-29 August 2008, London
The link between tourism and physical health has been long established –from 18th century tourists taking the air in Switzerland, or the waters in Bath, to 21st century medical tourists travelling from Britain to France for operations or visiting the dentist while away in Thailand. Tourism may be seen as a source of mental health too, as an escape and a source of mental relaxation. Similarly, the link between leisure and health is constantly promoted: active leisure is encouraged, to delay the onset of ageing or reverse the effects of obesity. However, the relationships are by no means clear cut: tourism and leisure may damage health as well as promote it, as can be seen in the case of skiing accidents or the effects of sex tourism. The purpose of this session is to examine the problematic inter-relationships of health, tourism and leisure from a range of perspectives and across a variety of geographical scales.
Topics for papers may arise from one or more of the following subject areas, but potential contributors should not be deterred from offering a paper that falls outside these areas, but which contributes to the overall theme:– Historical trends in ‘healthy’ tourism/leisure – Medical tourism – The psychological benefits of tourism/leisure – Active leisure and health ideology – Health risks in tourism/leisure
Expressions of interest and abstracts (250 words maximum) should be sent to the session convenors by Monday, 11 February 2008: Edward Hall, University of Dundee (email: e.c.hall@dundee.ac.uk); Jacky Tivers, Nottingham Trent University (email: jacky.tivers@ntu.ac.uk); Meghann Ormond, University of St Andrews (email: mo63@st-andrews.ac.uk)
10/02/2008
Sex and the sexual in the leisure environment: Overcoming the moral straightjacket - Call for papers
Panel at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, 27-29 August 2008, London
Researchers in leisure have tended to tread the conventional moral high ground; either avoiding discussion of morally questionable leisure activities or analysing them from a moral perspective. With specific reference to sex this has meant only a limited and rather biased understanding of the complexity of the role this activity/desire plays in the construction of the leisure experience and environment has been developed. This critique calls for the boundaries of research on sex in the leisure environment to move beyond morally defined analyse to fully understand the position and nature of sex in leisure.
In addition to being studied in a limited manner, sex, in the leisure environment, has tended to be viewed by researchers in a way that does not do full justice to its diversity and complexity. Consequently, a further call is made for analysis of sex in the leisure environment that goes beyond just physical intercourse and encompasses all of the senses and diversity of the sexual instead.
Therefore, the papers in this session will explore the position of sex and the sexual in the leisure environment and how it aids construction of and is facilitated and influenced by the leisure environment in a constantly evolving manner that is potentially affected by issues of morality though not necessarily entirely bound by them.
Potential themes for presentations include, but are not limited to: * The acceptance of public displays of sex and the sexual in the leisure environment *Issues of ethics, perversion and sex research * The construction of places within the leisure environment through sex and the sexual * The presence, portrayal, and facilitation of non-heterosexual sexual desires and acts within the leisure environment * The balance between freedom, morality, and safety of the self and the other within the context of sex in the leisure environment
Abstracts (200 words maximum) should be sent to Dr Neil Carr, University of Otago, New Zealand (ncarr@business.otago.ac.nz) by Tuesday, 12 February 2008
05/02/2008
UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES) is undertaking a review of the way in which key stakeholders, including states, UNHCR, other international agencies, NGOs, human rights organizations and legal practitioners are making use of the Executive Committee's Conclusions on International Protection in their efforts to strengthen the protection of refugees and other persons of concern. PDES invites all subscribers to the Forced Migration Listserve who have experience in the use of Excom Conclusions to send their observations on this matter, ideally focusing on the key questions listed below. Submissions should be sent to: dowd@unhcr.org with 'Excom Conclusions' in the subject line. 1. To what extent are Excom Conclusions known, understood and appreciated by states, UNHCR, NGOs and other stakeholders? 2. To what extent have the different types of Excom Conclusion been used by various stakeholders (a) in the formulation of policy, official positions and legal guidance (b) in the drafting of national, regional and international legislation (c) as a input to judicial and asylum proceedings, (d) as an advocacy tool, and (e) in any other ways? 3. What are the key variables (e.g. subject matter, timing, specificity, length, dissemination) that determine whether an Excom conclusion is actively used by states and other stakeholders? 4. Is there any evidence to suggest that recent Excom Conclusions have been used to a greater or to a lesser extent than in earlier periods, and if so, what accounts for the trend? 5. Can specific examples of effective and ineffective practice be identified in relation to the use of Excom Conclusions?
4/02/2008
Mise en ligne du numéro 4 de la revue en ligne "L'autre voie"
Éditée par Franck Michel : une mine de pensée réflexive et critique sur le tourisme : sur www.deroutes.com
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