Leeds Metropolitan University’s Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change will host its 5th international research conference, entitled “Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel”, from 19-23 July.
Overview
This fifth annual international research conference seeks 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.
Conference themes
Themes the conference is going to address include the following: Distance, Enchantment and the Power of “Exotic” Objects; Tourism Souvenirs, Acting Objects and Commodity Fetishism; Tourism Liturgy – “Relics”, and Pilgrimage Shrines in Late Modernity; The Tourist Object as Metaphor and Memory; Built Environments, Spatial Design and Architecture for Tourism; Art, Display and Museographic Elevation in the Postcolonial Era; Curating for Tourism – Collecting the Worlds of the Tourist; and Overcoming the Material Through the Virtual – Future Realms of Tourist Experience
Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers will include Mark Jones, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Mitchell Schwarzer, Chair of Visual Studies and Architecture at California College of the Arts, USA.
For any enquiry or further information about the conference, accommodation or registration, please contact the conference administrator, Ms Daniela Carl, at ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk
