Tourism and Seductions of Difference: 1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference

[i]Conference[/i] 10-12 Sept 2010 Lisbon, Portugal This conference is jointly organised by: · OAC-Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network · CRIA – FCSH/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal · Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan University, UK The conference will take place at the New University of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 September 2010. The programme and further information on this conference can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/tourismcontactculture/project-definition or at www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk. SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS: 1. Slumming: Tourism and the Seductive Marginal (Panel directed by Fabian Frenzel, University of Bristol, and Ko Koens, ICRT, Leeds Met, UK) 2. Seductions of History: Visitors’ Motives and Experiences in Historical Destinations (Panel directed by Luis Silva, CRIA / FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa) 3. Seducing Bodies (Panel directed by Valerio Simoni, CRIA-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal) 4. Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Panel directed By Michael A. Di Giovine, Dept of Anthropology, University of Chicago, discussant Regina Bendix, University of Goettingen, Germany) 5. Borders, Unfamiliarity and (Im)mobilities (Panel directed by Bas Spierings, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) 6. Seducing Wilderness (Panel directed by Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal) 7. Cartographies of Seduction: Tourism, Objects and Places (Panel directed by Filipa Fernandes, ISCSP - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal) 8. Seductions of Ugliness (Panel directed by Tamas Regi, CTCC, Leeds Met, UK and David Picard, CRIA-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal). For more information: http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html