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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Dear
Colleagues,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Alhough theatre, drama,
and performance studies are not explicitly cited, I suspect
proposals emerging from these interrelated disciplines would be most
welcome.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Things
that Move: </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">19
– </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">23 July,
2007</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Leeds</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT
face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Arial color=black><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">United
Kingdom</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Whatever the prophecies of ‘virtual’
reality, we inhabit and move through the ‘real’ world of objects. Though tourism
and travel are bound to concepts of time and space, they are also rooted in the
material world – a tangible world of places, things, edifices, buildings,
monuments and ‘stuff’. The relationships we develop and share with these things
varies from the remote to the intimate, from the transient to the lasting and
from the passive to the passionate. Within the practices of tourism and its use
(and non-use) of the material world, and, though the act of travel, objects are
given meaning, status, and are endowed with symbolism and power. Objects
construct, represent and even define the tourist experience. Our journeys
through the world of objects generate a plethora of emotions – pleasure,
attachment, belonging, angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear – and feed
on-going discourse and narratives. Moreover, through tourism, and our touristic
encounters, the material world itself is challenged and
changed.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CALL
FOR PAPERS</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In this, our fifth annual
international </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">research</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> conference, we seek to explore the multi-faceted
relationships between tourism and material culture – the built environment,
infrastructures, consumer and household goods, art, souvenirs, ephemera and
landscapes. As in previous events, the conference aims to provoke critical
dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries and epistemologies and thus we welcome
papers from the following disciplines: aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology,
architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural studies,
ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape studies,
linguistics, museum studies, philosophy, political sciences, sociology, tourism
studies and urban/spatial planning.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Key themes of interest to the
conference include:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic/political
economies of tourism objects</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The dialectics of tourism objects and places / spaces
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Structures / infrastructures of international tourism
– building / architecture / design for tourism and tourists</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Aesthetics of objects in a touristic
context</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tourist art and art for tourists</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The performance of material culture in the tourism
realm</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Language and the translation of objects in
tourism</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The tourist souvenir - commodity fetishism and
religious relics</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The tourist object as metaphor and
memory</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ownership, display and interpretation - contested
pasts and presents</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Curating for tourism – collecting the worlds of the
tourist</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 46pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Symbol size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Overcoming the material through the virtual – future
realms of tourist experience</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please submit your 300 word abstract
including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor
Mike Robinson (</SPAN></FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">) as soon as possible but no later
than </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">March 23rd
2007</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Daniela Carl</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Faculty of Arts &
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain and
suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me
our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 <BR>Regular Fax (514) 398
8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>