Final CFP- Tourism & Literature Conference, Harrogate, UK, July 2004

Final Call for Papers

TOURISM & LITERATURE: TRAVEL, IMAGINATION & MYTH
22-26 July, 2004, Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

This is the final Call for Papers for our forthcoming research conference on 
'Tourism & Literature', organised by the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. The 
conference will take place in an old spa hotel in
Harrogate, The Old Swan, in the North of England, from 22-26 July 2004. It will 
run in tandem with the Harrogate International
Festival and the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.

Themes of interest for the conference include:
- Sight-seeing - encounters with literately enchanted worlds 
- From the Bible to Lonely planet - literature as travel liturgy 
- Representing places, peoples and pasts in fictional texts
- Diaspora and Localities: Negotiating collective identities through travel 
narratives
- Production of literary spaces and the poetics of literary landscapes 
- Recreating the world - travel, cosmogony and myth
- 'Intangible heritages' - narrative traditions, storytelling and oral 
histories  
- Literary pilgrimages and the celebrity of authors
- Alternative literatures and tourist experiences

Please send your abstract of around 250 words with full address details as an 
electronic file to Dr. David Picard
(d.picard@xxxxxxxxx ) as soon as possible but by March 1st 2004 at the latest. 

'Tourism & Literature' is part of our ongoing annual conference series build 
around the problem of touristic constructions and
experiences of time, space and otherness, and the challenge these represent to 
the way we communicate and exchange in the
contemporary world. This second academic event emphasises on literature which, 
through both texts and authors, has been a major
'inspiration' for tourists and travel. The inter-relationship between tourist, 
tourism and literature will be at the heart of this
international conference.

The conference will gather around 140 international academics and travel 
writers from around 25 countries with research interests
and teaching curricula in the tourism and travel literature fields. This event 
is a unique opportunity to raise a number of
fundamental anthropological, sociological, geographical and political issues 
which we would like to discuss through different
historic, ethnographic, aesthetic, cognitive-psychological and socio-linguistic 
perspectives.

Executive Producer: Frederic Revaz
Conference Convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard, William Culver-Dodds


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