Anthropologists have studied how separations between ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ become part of various public and personal aesthetics of everyday life. They have studied how the idea of differences between people, temporalities and places enable social actors to constitute and maintain selfhood within a wider cosmological scheme of social life. As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, this Conference will tackle one of the central ontological and phenomenological premises of tourism, the fascination with the idea of 'Others'. it will explore the seductive powers underlying this immersion of Self in the Other and the forms of social life and exchange its shapes at different scales of social life. It will bring together around 200 academics from more than 30 countries presenting 150 papers during four days. It also includes a film festival, various study tours, an ‘intergenerational’ networking event and a book fair.

"Tourism and Seductions of Difference
Lisbon, Portugal | 9-12 September 2010

Who, or what are tourists seduced by? What constitutes their arousal? How do tourists learn what to be seduced by? How is the tourist experience and the temptation to travel framed? What can these attractions tell us about the moral order of tourism and modern culture? How are forms of local, ethnic, gender and national self being shaped and maintained in the contact zones of tourism? How are tourist attractions assembled to entice tourists? How is seduction in tourism being politically framed? What are the threats and consequences of seducing tourists? What happens when tourists seduce? How can seduction work as a means for resistance? What happens when seduction is rejected?

As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, this Conference will tackle one of the central ontological and phenomenological premises of tourism, the fascination with the idea of 'Others'. Anthropologists have studied how separations between ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ become part of various public and personal aesthetics of everyday life. They have studied how the idea of differences between people, temporalities and places enable social actors to constitute and maintain selfhood within a wider cosmological scheme of social life. In the field of tourism practice, one of the most basic premises consists in temporarily overcoming difference, be it through the journey to a ‘different’ place, the eating of ‘different’ food, the contact with ‘different’ people. Whatever their ontological underpinning, Self and Other are almost ceremonially brought into contact. Self is deliberately immersed in the realm of an Other. Moreover, in the post-touristic context ‘back home’, the visited Other seems to perpetuate a sympathetic quality. It has penetrated the touristic body, is invoked in travel stories and embodied in photographs and souvenir objects. While rhetorically and socially separated, ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ hence appear here in fact mutually constitutive, exerting seductive powers upon each other, ‘bewitching’ and ‘colonising’ each other, invoking each other and making each other a fetish of their own existence. The touristic immersion in the Other seems part of an ontological work which enables the maintenance of Selfhood.

This Conference will explore the seductive powers underlying this immersion of Self in the Other and the forms of social life and exchange its shapes at different scales of social life. It will bring together around 200 academics from more than 30 countries presenting 150 papers during four days. The Conference is likely to be the largest anthropological event ever focusing on tourism. Download a draft programme (V2.85 updated 11 August 2010). It also includes a film festival, various study tours, an ‘intergenerational’ networking event and a book fair. The philosophy of this event and of the network of researchers who have been organising it is to be open and accessible. For that reason, the registration fees were fixed at a strict cover-cost basis and include all lunches, coffee breaks and a dinner.

Organising Institutions

• Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network
• Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Met University
• Portuguese Network Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA)

Organisation Committee

• David Picard (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal)
• Dennis Zuev (CIES/ISCTE, Portugal)
• Joana Lucas (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal)
• Maria Cardeira (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal)
• Frédéric Vidal (CRIA/ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
• Frerk Froböse (CRIA, Portugal)
• Sofia Sampaio (CRIA/ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
• Academic Committee
• David Picard (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal)
• Maria Cardeira (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal)
• Simone Abram (CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
• Mike Robinson (CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
• Saskia Cousin (IIAC-LAIOS, EHESS, Paris, France)
• Nelson Graburn (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Maki Tanaka (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Noel B. Salazar (CuMoRe, University of Leuven, Belgium)
• Mathis Stocks (Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland)
• Pamila Gupta (WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Naomi Leite (Dept of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)
• Camila del Marmol (University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
• Ramona Lenz (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
• Chiara Cipollari (Anthropology, University of Perugia, Italy
• Sanja Kalapos Gasparac (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Britt Kramvig (Northern Research Institute, Tromsø, Norway)
• Ester Võsu (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Margaret Hart (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
• Michael A. Di Giovine (Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA)
• Kenneth Little (Anthropology, York University at Toronto, Canada)

Contact

Dr David Picard
CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon

Email: tourismcontactculture@gmail.com
Web: www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk"

Filming Encounters

TOCOCU Festival of Ethnographic and Documentary Film
Lisbon, Portugal | 9-12 Septembre 2010

Organised by Nadège Chabloz (Centre d’études africaines, EHESS) and Corinne Cauvin Verner (Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen, EHESS), as part of Tourism and Seductions of Difference: International Conference of the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU).

Tourism generates forms of contact few cinematographers have seriously engaged with. The vast majority of reportages and documentaries dealing with tourism denounce its presumed neocolonial logic of social destruction, caricature tourists as idiosyncratic ignorants or claim tourism as a factor for economic development. Making fun of the naivety of tourists trapped in exoticizing decors and stage settings, many such films claim a moral superiority of the anthropological perspective and (travel) experience. Others, rarer, perpetuate an established tradition of constructing the tourist as a hero of modern time immersed in exotic and potentially dangerous foreign societies, doing charitable work and trying to make the world a better place.

The aim of this film festival is to bring together new and less new visual documents (films, video installations, etc.) that deal with tourism in less stereotyped ways, provoking debate and reflections on the seductive power of certain practices and destinations in tourism. The film festival is part of Tourism and Seductions of Difference, an international academic conference of the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network. While we invite a range of different visual documents, we will privilege films that interrogate the politics, social dynamics and challenges to identity that accompany various forms of touristic contact.

Indicative topics are:

• Practices of touristic travel and interrogations of the meaning of travel by tourists
• Observations of the social milieus emerging within the contact zones of tourism
• Means and meanings of mobilising tourism as part of identity formation strategies
• Explorations of touristic intimacies and what actually happens when tourists do tourism in various contexts
• Observations of the consequences of social contact in the realms of tourism, e.g. the formation of tourism cultures, of new social classes working in the tourism field, social migrations, land and culture ownership issues, etc.

To submit a film, please fill in the form below and send it, together with two copies of the film (format DVD-PAL) to Nadège Chabloz, 12 rue Boyer, 75020 Paris, France. The deadline to submit films is 15 July 2010.

Program

8 Sept - Wednesday

17:00-19:30 Registration Desk open (UNL-Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Torre B, 3rd Floor, Avenida de Berna 26, 1069-060 Lisboa, Portugal)

19:30-20:00 Welcome reception (courtyard of UNL-Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Av da Berna 26)

9 Sept - Thursday

9:00 Registration (same as above)

9:30-10:00 Conference opening (Amphitheatre 2, Torre B, 3rd Floor, UNL-Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Torre B, 3rd Floor, Avenida de Berna 26, 1069-060 Lisboa, Portugal)

10:00-11:00 Opening Presentations (same as above)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Paper presentations

Panel Cosmopolitanism & Hospitality 1

Room Bewitched

Chair Maria Cardeira da Silva

• 11:30-12:00 Couchsurfing and Tunisia: hospitality, seduction and sexual tourism. Dora Carpenter-Latiri and Sonja Buchberger. University of Brighton and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
• 12:00-12:30 “Why do they just pass by?”: When the host-guest encounter brings about new forms of hospitality. Fabiola Mancinelli. University of Barcelona, Spain
• 12:30-13:00 The Travel Encounter as Hostage Situation. Deirdre Guthrie. University of Illinois, USA

Panel Seductions of Sameness 1

Room Love

Chair Frédéric Vidal and Sofia Sampaio

• 11:30-12:00 Disneyzation of Renewed Neighbourhoods: Urban Leisure' Segregation in Barcelona (Fòrum) and Lisbon (Parque das Nações). Patricia Pereira, Jordi Nofre, Luis Baptista. FCSH/UNL, Portugal
• 12:00-12:30 Tourist walks in the city: crossing the landscapes of urban renewal. Sophie Gravereau, LAU-IIAC/CNRS-EHESS, France
• 12:30-13:00 The Tourist Gait – Walking Tactics at Home and Away. Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Panel Embodied Seduction 1

Room Shining

Chair Valerio Simoni

• 11:30-12:00 Show of the Brazilians Mulatas: Tourism and the Seduction of Samba, Mariana Selister Gomes. ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• 12:00-12:30 A World of Difference. Embodied Encounters between Turkish Tourism Workers and Female Tourists. Sanne Scheltena, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 12:30-13:00 Sex, Romance and the Carnivalesque in the Interaction between Female Tourists and Caribbean Men. Doris Weichselbaumer, SOAS, University of London, UK

Panel Enticing Places 1

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Simone Abram

• 11:30-12:00 Before You Die: Tourists, Narrative and the Promise and Power of Revelation.  Mike Robinson. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
• 12:00-12:30 International tourism and the limits of seduction: the ingestion of difference. Sandra C. S. Marques. CRIA/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
• 12:30-13:00 Amsterdam’s back stage seductions, a geographical approach. Amandine Chapuis. IREST, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 1

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 11:30-12:00 Introduction: Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference. Michael A. Di Giovine, University of Chicago, USA
• 12:00-12:30 Following the Footsteps of Christ: The Emergence of Modern Christian Tourism to the Holy Land. Guy Galazka, Sorbonne University, France
• 12:30-13:00 Rethinking Pilgrimage through Theories of Architectural Character and the Picturesque, Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Cosmopolitanism & Hospitality 2

Room Bewitched

Chair Maria Cardeira da Silva

• 14:00-14:30 Stopping points: residential tourism and global flows. Susan Frohlick and Kris Maksymowicz. University of Manitoba, USA
• 14:30-15:00 At home in the world.  Tourism and cosmopolitan sensibilities in Montenegro. Irena Weber. University of Primorska, Slovenia
• 15:00-15:30 Appealing East. Tourism in Maramures, Romania, and Masuria, Poland. Mathilde Verschaeve and Hannah C. Wadle, EHESS, Paris, France / CTCC, Leeds, UK

Panel Seductions of Sameness 2

Room Love

Chair Frédéric Vidal and Sofia Sampaio

• 11:30-12:00 Homecoming Nation. Kalyan Bhandari, University of Glasgow, UK 
• 12:00-12:30 Food, Festivals, and Local Identity Constructions in Hungary. Irén Annus. University of Szeged, Hungary
• 12:30-13:00 Cinema, tourism and ‘authenticity’ in Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto. Sofia Sampaio. CRIA-IUL, Portugal

Panel Embodied Seduction 2

Room Shining

Chair Valerio Simoni

• 11:30-12:00 Seducing Bodies: Dance-Sex (Dis)Continuities in Touristic Cuba. Valerio Simoni, CRIA/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
• 12:00-12:30 The tourists are just wild about Harry, or not: becoming insensible on a beach, in Belize. Kenneth Little, Dept Anthropology, York University, Canada
• 12:30-13:00 Reverse Souvenirs: Discovering the Erotic Mystery of the Self in Things Left Behind. Colleen Ballerin Cohen, Anthropology and Women's Studies, Vassar College, USA

Panel Enticing Places 2

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Simone Abram

• 11:30-12:00 Tourism in Maldives: experiencing the difference from Maldives. Bénédicte Auvray. University of Le Havre, France
• 12:00-12:30 Living life on the borderline: Seductions of the escape route of ultra-peripheral resorts. Margaret Hart Robertson. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• 12:30-13:00 Fields of seduction: heritage, religion and the sea in the speeches of a Portuguese touristic region. Fernando Magalhães. Instituto Politecnico Leiria, Portugal

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 2

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 11:30-12:00 The Accidental Pilgrim. Russell E. Brayley, George Mason University (Arlington, VA) USA
• 12:00-12:30 Onto Emerging Ground: Anticlimactic Movement on the Camino de Santiago. Kiyomi Doi, University of Tokyo, Japan
• 12:30-13:00 The Return of the Pilgrim and the Seductions of Place: 'Seasoned Pilgrims,' 'Hosts,' and the Problem of 'Liminality' on the Road to Compostela, Eduardo Chemin, University of Exeter, UK

15:30-16:00 Tea break

16:00-17:30 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Cosmopolitanism & Hospitality 3

Room Bewitched

Chair Maria Cardeira da Silva

• 16:00-16:30 Seductions of the Sublime in Goa. Pamila Gupta. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• 16:30-17:00 Civility and Progress, Cosmopolitan Vision and National Memory in Europe’s Backwaters. Rodanthi Tzanelli. University of Leeds, UK
• 17:00-17:30 Football tourism and local identity in the European Union. Watching matches at an Irish Pub in Lisbon. Miguel Moniz. CRIA/ISCTE-IUL

Panel Seductions of Sameness 3

Room Love

Chair Frédéric Vidal and Sofia Sampaio

• 16:00-16:30 Construction of Metropolitan Leisure Territories: Urban Tourism in Algarve and the importance of national road 125 (N125). João Martins, CESNOVA FCSH/UNL, Portugal
• 16:30-17:00 Tourism is Ordinary: motivations and activities of the São Domingos mine’s tourists. Maria João Ramos, Beja Polytechnic Higher Institute, Portugal

Panel Embodied seduction 3

Room Shining

Chair Valerio Simoni

• 16:00-16:30 Seductive bodies and frontiers: construction of difference in Madrid Pride. Begonya Enguix, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
• 16:30-17:00 Pleasure Differences and Seduction: Measuring Music effects on Tourist Experiences, David Horrigan, LRG University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Panel Enticing Places 3

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Simone Abram

• 16:00-16:30 ‘One Avenue Tourism’: Las Vegas as a Model for Touristic Space in Luang Prabang, Laos. Shih-chung Tristan Hsieh. National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• 16:30-17:00 Dark tourism and the national tourism policies in Romania. Oana Mihaela Stoleriu. University “Al. I. Cuza” of Iasi, Romania
• 17:00-17:30 The "Sassi" of Matera: rock-hewn community values. Elvira de Giacomo. University of Bari, Italy

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 3

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 16:00-16:30 The Social Phenomenon of Pilgrimage. Talia Shay, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel
• 16:30-17:00 A moving Mary: Violence and emotions during the procession of the romeria in El Rocío (Spain). Eddy Plasquy, University of Leuven, Belgium
• 17:00-17:30 Eyeing up the past? Seductions and seditions within a pilgrimage site. Hazel Tucker and Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of Sheffield, UK

  FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 1

  Amphitheatre 2

  Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

•   Tchoumpa! Les enfants du tourisme. 30 min., 1999. Alexandre Bonche, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.
•    A Ladjé, toubabou nana! Regarde, les Blancs sont arrivés ! 21 mn., 2009. Cédric Touquet, Cemaf, Aix-en-Provence, Fanny Brancourt. 

18:00-19:30 Intergenerational Networking Event

19:30 Aperitivo Light Dinner (details TBC)

10 Sept - Friday

9:30 Registration (same as above)

9:30-11:00 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Making Heritage 1

Room Bewitched

Chair Camila del Marmol and Marc Morell

• 9:30-10:00 Metaculture and its malcontents: World Heritage in Tanzania and Libya. Jasper Chalcraft. University of Sussex, UK
• 10:00-10:30 Culture and Development and Seduction. Tamar Gordon and Ananya Bhattatarya. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Banglatanak Dot Com, USA/India
• 10:30-11:00 The temples of Baalbek: an occidental projection. The effect of representations in the tourist seduction process. Isabelle Lefort and Ghada Salem. University of Lyon, France

Panel Technologies of Seduction 1

Room Love

Chair Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

• 9:30-10:00 Erotics, Ruins, and Adventure in the Tourism Structure of Experience. Quetzil E. Castañeda. Indiana University, USA
• 10:00-10:30 Seducation: Learning the trade of tourist enticement. Noel B. Salazar. University of Leuven, Belgium
• 10:30-11:00 The Seduction of a Bitter Brew: Labor Relations and the Cultivation of Taste in Coffee Tourism. Sarah Lyon. University of Kentucky, USA

Panel Senegambian Seductions 1

Room Shining

Chair Jean Muteba Rahier

• 9:30-10:00 The Influence of Exotic Stereotypes on the Enrollment in a Study Abroad Program in West Africa. Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University, USA
• 10:00-10:30 “What is Africa to Me?” Now: The Impact of Heritage/Roots Tourism or “Homecoming” on African Americans’ Conceptions of Africa. Tyler Parry, University of South Carolina, USA
• 10:30-11:00 The Tourismification and Invention of Sites of Memory: The Slavery Museum of Juffureh Village, the Guided Tour of James Island, and the 2010 Roots Festival in The Gambia. Harriet Marin Jones. Florida International University, USA.

Panel Seductions of Order 1

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Jakob Calice

• 9:30-10:00 Tourist Camps: The Ordering Power of All-inclusive Tourism. Richard Ek. Lunds Universitet, Sweden
• 10:00-10:30 Ordering Place or the Seductive View from the Hotel Bellevue. Silvia Scheuerer. University of Basel, Switzerland
• 10:30-11:00 Reconstructing Bodies or Seductive Feelings of be(com)ing Purified. Jakob Calice, CTCC Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 4

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 9:30-10:00 Pilgrimage vis-à-vis Religious Tourism in India. Rana P.B. Singh, Benares Hindu University, India
• 10:00-10:30 Transposed sacred places in Varanasi: connecting local sites to pan-Indian places of pilgrimage. Vera Lazzaretti. University of Torino - Milan, Italy
• 10:30-11:00 The seduction of the sacred: visual experiences and spatial practices in Varanasi (India). Cristiana Zara, University of London, UK

FILM FESTIVAL : Filming Encounters 2

Amphitheatre 2

Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

• Vendemos recuerdos/Memories for sale (Mexico). 25 min., 2009. Carolina Corral Paredes, University of Manchester, UK.
• Visualising the Past: Re-branding the present I. 10 min., 2010.
• Visualising the Past: Re-branding the present II. 9 min., 2010.
• Visualising the Past: Re-branding the present III. 2 min., 2010. Jessica Jacobs, Royal Holloway University of London.
• Want cigar? 10 min., 2010. Bastien Birchler. Institut de Neuchatel, Suisse. Valerio Simoni. CRIA, Portugal.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Making Heritage 2

Room Bewitched

Chair Camila del Marmol and Marc Morell

• 11:30-12:00 Mexico for sale: the creation and manipulation of a cultural identity for tourism. The case of Xcaret night show. Rafael Guerrero Rodriguez. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
• 12:00-12:30 Tourism and the seduction of music: the case of Gnawa Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco. Raquel Carvalheira. ICS-UL and CRIA, Portugal
• 12:30-13:00 The making of heritage through indigenous handcrafts: the cultural entrepreneurs of Costa Rica. Julien Laverdure. IHEAL-Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle/EHESS

Panel Technologies of Seduction 2

Room Love

Chair Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

• 11:30-12:00 Ritual, game, show. On a hazardous experience of ecotourism. Gaetano Mangiameli. Università di Bologna, Italy
• 12:00-12:30 Seducing the Surfer: Nirvana wasn’t built in a day. Katherine Spilde and Jess Ponting, San Diego State University, USA
• 12:30-13:00 Domestic seductions in a blacksmith’s performance. Ester Võsu. University of Tartu, Estonia

Panel Senegambian Seductions 2

Room Shining

Chair Jean Muteba Rahier

• 11:30-12:00 “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”: Reflections on African American Female Participation in Senegambian Sex Tourism. Synatra Smith, Florida International University, USA.
• 12:00-12:30 When Bintu Meets Françoise: Homosexual and Homosocial Interactions in Senegambian Sex Tourism. Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, Florida International University, USA.
• 12:30-13:00 What do the Toubabs Want?: Conversations with Antiquaires,“Businessmen,” “Bumsters,” and Other Young Male and Female Senegambians about Sex Tourism in Senegal and The Gambia. Mariama Jaiteh, Florida International University, USA.

Panel Seductions of Order 2

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Jakob Calice

• 11:30-12:00 Libya as a Tourist (Colonial) Destination in the “Rivista del Touring Club Italiano” in the ‘30s. Annarita Lamberti. University of Bergamo, Italy
• 12:00-12:30 Tourism as a genderised ordering: seductions of Riga as a ‘sex tourism destination’. Cecilia Möller. Karlstad University, Sweden
• 12:30-13:00 The Nomos of Tourism. Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Katarina Schough. Karlstads University and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 5

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 11:30-12:00 The Hajj and the “Other” Islam: Rethinking Pilgrimage, Devotion, and Profanity among Indonesian Pilgrims. Dadi Darmadi, Harvard University, USA
• 12:00-12:30 Trading symbolic capital on the Manimahesh pilgrimage. Jonathan Miles-Watson and Sukanya Miles-Watson, University of Tallinn, Estonia
• 12:30-13:00 What is Quyllurit’i all about? The politics of ‘social effervescence,’ emotional experience and pilgrimage as a site of reproduction of coexisting ideologies of social difference. Guillermo Salas Carreno, University of Michigan, USA

  FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 3

  Amphitheatre 2

  Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin

  Salah, an African toubab ? 65 min., 2008. Margriet Jansen. 

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Making Heritage 3

Room Bewitched

Chair Camila del Marmol and Marc Morell

• 14:00-14:30 The life of a tourist attraction: from conception to independence. Maria Gutowska
• 14:30-15:00 Convicts heritage in French Guiana: Papillon and friends in a touristic perspective. Bernard Cherubini. Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France.
• 15:00-15:30 Conclusions: Seductions and Disenchantments in the Making of Heritage.

Panel Technologies of Seduction 3

Room Love

Chair Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

• 14:00-14:30 Farm Tourism and gendered negotiations: reinforcing traditional gender roles or expanding female spaces? Anniken Førde. University of Tromsø, Norway
• 14:30-15:00 The Tourist Experience as Bonding: Gendered Meanings. Bente Heimtun, Birgit Abelsen and Alta Norut. Finnmark University College, Norway
• 15:00-15:30 Size Does Matter. Portugal dos Pequenitos: the miniature (micrographia) and the gigantic (Nation as Empire) as rethorics of space. Paula Mota Santos. Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

Panel Cultures of Difference 1

Room Shining

Chair Pamila Gupta

• 14:00-14:30 The Architectural Tourist’s Glimpse. Ben Stringer and Jane McAllister. University of Westminster, UK
• 14:30-15:00 Seductions of the Travelogue: Self-Invention and Distinction in Encountering and Narrating Africa. Frauke Wiegand and Marcela Knapp. Humboldt University, Germany
• 15:00-15:30 Guide`s  Strategy  of Intimacy on Guided Tours. Jane Widtfeldt Meged, Roskilde University, Denmark

Panel Unfamiliarity 1

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Bas Spierings and Martin van de Velde

• 14:00-14:30 The Seduction of Unfamiliarity: Cross-Border Shopping in the Dutch-German Border Region. Bas Spierings. Utrecht University, and Martin van de Velde. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• 14:30-15:00 Tourism as Cross-Border Interaction: a Case of the Finnish-Russian Border Region. Alexander Izotov. University of Eastern Finland, Finland
• 15:00-15:30 Theoretical Reflections on the Significance of Unfamiliarity in the Cross-Border Interaction in the Danish-German Border Region. Carsten Yndigegn. Department of Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 6

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 14:00-14:30 The sacred territory. The Shroud: religious and cultural heritage for Piedmont. Cesare Emanuel, Piercarlo Grimaldi, Stefania Cerutti, Davide Porporato, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
• 14:30-15:00 Religious tourism and seduction: The case of Sacred Mount of Varallo, Carla Ferrario, Raffaella Afferni and Stefania Mangano, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale and Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
• 15:00-15:30 Religious tourism and local pilgrimages in a mountain region: Opportunity for local development or reinvention of local traditions? Giovanna Rech, University of Trento, Italy

 FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 4

 Amphitheatre 2

 Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

•  Global Villages (USA). 59 min., 2005. Tamar Gordon. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Reverse Exoticism 1

Room Bewitched

Chair Cyril Isnart and Ema Pires

• 16:00-16:30 In-Between Otherness: Seductions of Ethnography in Tourism. Saskia Cousin. LAIOS/IIAC, EHESS/CNRS, France
• 16:30-17:00 From Revolutions to Resorts: The Allure of the Once Forbidden. Florence E. Babb. University of Florida, USA
• 17:00-17:30 The Presence of the Absent in the Construction of Zulu Cultural Villages in South Africa: Unlocking the myth of the Myth-Reality dichotomy in the authenticity debate of cultural representations. Morgan Ndlovu. Monash University, South Africa

Panel Technologies of Seduction 4

Room Love

Chair Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

• 16:00-16:30 “Faustino, the Afrodisiac” – Seduction as narrative and moral Leitmotif in José Eduardo Agualusa’s My father’s wives. Elisa Antz. Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
• 16:30-17:00 Global Desires: [Re]creation, Sex, and Survival in Contemporary Narrative of the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean. Christopher A. McGrath. Michigan State University, USA

Panel Cultures of Difference 2

Room Shining

Chair Pamila Gupta

• 16:00-16:30 Tourism as civilisation of difference. Mathis Stock. Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB), Sion, Switzerland
• 16:30-17:00 Escaping Modernity? The Conditions of Existence of Adventure Tourism. Alain Imboden. Les Roches Gruyère University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• 17:00-17:30 Transformative Travel and the Seductions of Difference. Garth Lean. University of Western Sydney, Australia

Panel Unfamiliarity 2

Room Shipwrecked

Chair Bas Spierings and Martin van de Velde

• 16:00-16:30 Constructing Familiarity in ’Finnish-Russian Karelia: Shifting Uses of History and the Reinterpretation of Regions. James Scott. University of Eastern Finland, Finland
• 16:30-17:00 Recovering the Paradox of the Border: Identity and (Un)familiarity across the Portuguese-Spanish Border. Maria de Fátima Amante. Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• 17:00-17:30 Border Regions as Laboratories for European Integration? The Haunting Spectre of History as a Continuing Barrier. Dorte Andersen. University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Panel Rethinking Pilgrimage 7

Room Devotion

Chair Michael A. Di Giovine

• 16:00-16:30 The pilgrimage as an exodus from home and a movement beyond the boundaries of defined space and time, Federico D’Agostino, University of Roma III, Italy
• 16:30-17:00 The spatiality of pilgrimage performances and planning for religious tourism in Indian pilgrimage sites. Kiran Shinde, University of New England, Australia
• 17:00-17:30  'Where the House at Cavendish Used to Be': Japanese Anne tourism, Foreign Furusato, An Old Canadian Other, New Japanese Selves, and Women's Place. Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia, Canada

 FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 5

 Amphitheatre 2

 Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

• Being a tourist at home. 38 min., 2009. Jaroslava Bagdasarova, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.
• Kolkatar Mukh/Faces of Kolkata. 30 min., 2009. Sandra C. S Marques, Lisbon University Institute & Fernando Sousa. Portugal.

17:45-18:30 Plenary (details TBC)

from 21:00 Free Evening (option to meet up and go for dinner, details TBC)

11 Sept - Saturday

9:30 Registration (same as above)

10:00-11:30 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Reverse Exoticism 2

Room Bewitched

Chair Cyril Isnart and Ema Pires

• 9:30-10:00 Writing in the construction of cultural heritage and identity in the “Occitan valleys” of Piedmont (Italy). Silvia Chiarini. Institut d’Ethnologie méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative (IDEMEC), France
• 10:00-10:30 A Song Once Exotic: Isles of Fortune, Misfortune and Dreaming.  Enrique Galván-Álvarez. University of Alcalá, Spain
• 10:30-11:00 Race and Reverse Exoticism in New Mexico. Judith S. Neulander. Case Western Reserve University, USA

 Technologies of Seduction 5

 Love

 Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

•  Means of seduction, techniques of love: Travel and tours in Bollywood. Madhuja Mukherjee. Jadavpur University, India
•  Mapping Literary Britain:  Tourist Guides to Literary Landscapes 1951-2007. Deborah Philips. University of Brighton, UK
• ‘Who would go to Egypt?’ How Tourism Accounts for ‘Terrorism’. Elisa Wynne-Hughes. University of Bristol, UK

 Contact Zones 1

 Shining

 Mike Robinson

•  Customer or Witness? National Visions and the Imagination of the Tourist in New Memorial Museums. Anja Peleikis and Jackie Feldman. Martin Luther University and Ben Gurion University, Germany/ Israel
•  Seductive Żydoland: Remarks on the discovery of the East Central European Jewish Heritage by non Jewish Tourists. Peter F. N. Hörz. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Germany
•  The lure of the East within the Empires of sight: representations of Islam within National Museums and Galleries. Derek Bryce and Elizabeth Carnegie. University of Strathclyde / University of Sheffield, UK

 Seductions of History 1

 Shipwrecked

 Luís Silva

•  Experiencing Cold War Heritage Destinations, Sybille Frank, Darmstadt University, Germany
•  The museums in the North of Portugal, experts in seduction? Veronika Joukes, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
•  Embodiment of the Founding Myths of National History: Polish visitors at the Royal Castles in Warsaw and Krakow Ewa Klekot. Warsaw University, Poland

 Rethinking Pilgrimage 8

 Devotion

 Michael A. Di Giovine

•  Seductions of Suffering: Stigmata, Salvation and Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo. Michael A. Di Giovine, University of Chicago, USA
•  The Consumption of Authenticity and the Search for Vivid Spiritual Experiences in Contemporary Neo-Shamanisms. Christian Ghasarian, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
•  Mayan Prophecies and Spiritual Quests. Jacqueline Waldren, Oxford University, UK

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 PAPER PRESENTATION

Panel Reverse Exoticism 3

Room Bewitched

Chair Cyril Isnart and Ema Pires

• 11:30-12:00 Marketing the colonial past: Gaudde dances in Goan (Indian) tourism. Cláudia Pereira. ISCTE-IUL/Observatory of Emigration, CIES-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• 12:00-12:30 The Seduction of Invented Nostalgia: Ethnic nationalism and “Mexican heritage” tourism. Alex M. Saragoza. University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 12:30-13:00 Discussion. Brian O’Neill, CRIA-ICSTE, Portugal

 Technologies of Seduction 6

 Love

 Noel Salazar and Lina Tegtmeyer

•  A Century of Representations: Culture in US Travel Guides to Mexico. Anna E. Papanicolaou. University of Southampton, UK
•  Images of seduction? A visual analysis of Portugal guidebooks. Maria Joao Cordeiro. Universidade Catolica, Portugal
•  Melancholia in Tourism. Eleftheria Griba, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Greece

 Contact Zones 2

 Shining

 Mike Robinson

•  Entangled imaginings: On the mutual enchantment of cultural tourism in Indigenous Australia. Anke Tonnaer. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
•  Seducing bite by bite: Basque cuisine and gastronomic experiences as tourist attraction. Aitzpea Leizaola, University of the Basque Country
•  Haykakan Inqnutyun. National Identity and “Otherness” in Armenian Tourism. Marianna Cappucci and Luca Zarrilli. University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

 Seductions of History 2

 Shipwrecked

 Luís Silva

•  Journeying up to the mountains in NW Portugal. António Medeiros, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal
•  Consuming heritage in ‘Pousadas de Portugal’. Marta Lalanda Prista, CRIA / FCSH-UNL, Portugal.
•  Performance, Past, Heritage: Historical Re-enactment in Portugal. Paulo Raposo, CRIA/ ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.

 Rethinking Pilgrimage 9

 Devotion

 Michael A. Di Giovine

•  The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: Uses and representations of a reinvented space. Francois Cazaux, Université de Provence, France
•  As if the Road is Covered with Honey. Julia Klimova, University of California, San Diego, USA

 FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 6

 Amphitheatre 2

 Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

•  Shaman Tour. 63 min., 2009. Laetitia Merli, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France and University of Manchester, UK. 

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-18:30 Excursions (details TBC)

20:30 Dinner (details TBC). Film Festival Prize

12 Sept - Sunday  

9:30 Registration (same as above)

9:00-11:00 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Panel Slumming 1

Room Bewitched

Chair Fabian Frenzel

• 9:30-10:00 The Seductions of Poverty: Marking the Authentic in Highland Bolivia. Clare A. Sammells. Bucknell University
• 10:00-10:30 Slum-Tourism, Ethics and Enterprise - The case of Favela Tours in Rio de Janeiro. Fabian Frenzel. University of the West of England
• 10:30-11:00 Exotics at Home: Seduction, Display and the European Romani Culture Route‎. Carol Silverman. University of Oregon, USA

 Seducing Wilderness 1

 Love

 Dennis Zuev

•  Performing wilderness on the move. Simone Abram. Leeds Met University, Leeds, UK
•  Flirting with Boulders: Seductions of Tourism in Yosemite Valley. Sally Ann Ness. University of California, Riverside, USA
•  Contained and Excluded Difference: Aboriginal People and Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef. Celmara Pocock. University of Queensland, Australia

 Contact Zones 3

 Shining

 Mike Robinson

•  (De-)Touring Through the Other. William G. Feighery The Educational Travel Foundation Ltd, Switzerland.
•  Incredible India: Global Image Branding and Tourism Marketing in South Asia. David Geary. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
•  Capri Island in the French tourist guides and literary transcripts of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Patricia Marcoz. Paris 4-Sorbonne University, France

 Seductions of History 3

 Devotion

 Luís Silva

•  From visitors to residents – feel and conquest of a heritage place – thought a ‘risk’ strategy. Carla Sousa. CRIA/ University of Algarve, Portugal
•  Seductions of History: Concluding Thoughts and Discussion. Luís Silva, CRIA / FCSH – New University of Lisbon, Portugal

 Cartographies of Seduction 1

 Devotion

 Filipa Fernandes

•  Let them Eat Cake: An Ethnography With Hosts and Guests at the Pastéis de Belém. Frerk Froböse. CRIA, Portugal.
•  The Quai Branly Museum: visiting others without a real encounter. Octave Debary & Melanie Roustan. Université Paris Descartes, France
•  Encounters in the romantic city. Cartographies of Seduction and Spatiality’s of Queer Tourism in Lisbon. Paulo Jorge Vieira, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

 FILM FESTIVAL :  Filming Encounters 7

 Amphitheatre 2

 Nadège Chabloz and Corinne Cauvin Verner

•  L'appel du désert. 52 min., 2001. Corinne Cauvin Verner, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.
•  Bwiti et iboga en VF (2). Itinéraire d'un initié militant. 48 min., 2010. Nadège Chabloz, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Panel Slumming 2

Room Bewitched

Chair Fabian Frenzel

• 11:30-12:00 Trash Tourism! Or Trash Tourism? The Periphery As Center of Attraction: The Case of the US-American City. Lina Tegtmeyer. Universität Siegen, Germany
• 12:00-12:30 Sights of suffering, starvation and insurrection - The tourist as historical witness in nineteenth century Ireland. Anthony V. Seaton. University of Bedfordshire, UK.
• 12:30-13:00 From Raj Tourism to Slum Tourism in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. Ana Cristina Mendes. CEAUL.

 Seducing Wilderness 2

 Love

 Dennis Zuev

•  Identities and Modernities: Mauritanian Imraguen facing the Tourists. Joana Lucas. CRIA / FCSH -Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• A desert crowd: Tourism and territorial promotion through a musical venue. Marta Amico. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
•  Seducing Wilderness – Performing Nature. Britt Kramvig. University of Tromsø/ Romssa Universitehta, Norway

 Contact Zones 4

 Shining

 Mike Robinson

•  Route 66 – A Theme Park of Americana. Sigrun Prahl
•  The Seductions of Domesticity: Han Tourism to Tibetan Areas of the People's Republic of China in Comparative Focus. Chris Vasantkumar. Hamilton College, USA
•  Barcelona as a global brand: From "The Best Shop In The World" to "Tourist, You Are The Terrorist”. Andrés Antebi. Observatori de la Vida Quotidiana, Barcelona, Spain

 Cartographies of Seduction 2

 Devotion

 Filipa Fernandes

•  Search for Landscapes. Vesna Pavlovic. Vanderbilt University, USA.

 FILM FESTIVAL

•  Uncanny Strangers. 46 min., 2010. David Picard, CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal.

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:20 CONCLUSION

14:00-14:30 Concluding Thoughts on the Theoretical Propositions in Pilgrimage Research. Nelson Graburn, Univ of California, Berkeley, USA

14:30-14:50 Concluding Thoughts on Tourism and Seductions of Difference. Regina Bendix, Univ Goettingen, Germany.

14:50-15:20 Discussion and conclusion by conference organiser

15:20 End of conference