O colóquio internacional "Sacred Tourism, Secular Pilgrimage. Travel and Transformation in the 21st century" irá decorrer no ISCTE-IUL, em Lisboa, de 7 a 11 de Julho de 2011.

An international symposium organized by researchers of the CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology) and the CIDEHUS (University of Évora), 'Sacred Tourism, Secular Pilgrimage' aims to revisit and build upon the extant theory on the relationship between pilgrimage and tourism, religious-motivated and ‘secular’ travel, by focusing on the transformational aspects of these practices.

The symposium proposes to bring together well-established scholars and younger researchers of different academic backgrounds – namely, the United States, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France and the UK – to reassess these topics in the light of their recent ethnographic work and research methodologies.

It also proposes to draw upon a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, ranging from social and cultural anthropology to history, social theory and cultural studies. The diversity in approaches, together with the geographical and cultural variety of the speakers’ fieldworks (which stretches from the Mediterranean and North Africa to Latin America and Asia), will no doubt result in a stimulating exchange of ideas and experiences.

The symposium’s ultimate aim is the production of a joint, peer-reviewed book that reflects the historical changes and theoretical advances that have taken place in the fields of tourism, pilgrimage and their many actual and metaphorical intersections.

Program

7 July

9:30-9:45 Opening Session
Anna Fedele (CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal/ GSPM-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)
Cyril Isnart (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Sofia Sampaio (CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

9:45-10:30 Religious Heritage Monuments and the Re-Enchantment of the World in Brittany
Ellen Badone (McMaster University, Canada)

10:30-11:15 Tourism as Religious Booster: the Catholic Church in Rhodes
Cyril Isnart (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora, Portugal)

9:45-10:30 Religious Heritage Monuments and the Re-Enchantment of the World in Brittany
Ellen Badone (McMaster University, Canada)

10:30-11:15 Tourism as Religious Booster: the Catholic Church in Rhodes
Cyril Isnart (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora, Portugal)

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15 Those who stay: shrine keepers and diasporic tourism in Africa
Maria Cardeira da Silva (CRIA, FCSH-UNL, Portugal)

12:15-13:00 Mecca: touristic transformations of a Muslim pilgrimage center
Katia Boissevain (IDEMEC-CNRS-Université de Provence, France)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:15 In-Between Worlds: Eurasian Travellers, Nostalgic Encounters and Imagined Homelands
Ema Pires (CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Universidade de Évora, Portugal)

15:15-16:00 Journeys into lost memories: migration, tourism and historical choreographies in some Alpine valleys
Dionigi Albera (IDEMEC-CNRS-Université de Provence, France)

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 The chronotope in tourism contexts
Antonio Miguel Nogués-Pedregal (Universitas Miguel Hernández, Spain)

17:00-17:45 Tourism as a ‘life-changing event’: a contribution from film studies
Sofia Sampaio (CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

18:00 Inauguration of the Photography Exhibition with ‘Porto de Honra’ (place to be announced)

8 July

9:30-10:15 From an industrial suburb to an urban place: visiting Alcântara at the turn of the 20th century 
Frédéric Vidal (CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

10:15-11:00 Coping with ambiguous relationships: the transformations of travel, tourism, and tourists in Cuba
Valerio Simoni (CRIA-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:00 Challenging the tourist/pilgrim divide. Alternative pilgrimages to Catholic Shrines in Southern France
Anna Fedele (CRIA-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal/ GSPM-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

12:00-12:45 Tropical Island Magic: Ontology of Matter and Space in Tourism
David Picard (CRIA-FCSH-UNL, Portugal)

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:45 Concluding Remarks
Nelson Graburn (University of California, USA)

14:45 Final discussion and Closing Session

20:00 Conference Dinner (place to be announced)

9 July

10:00-12:00 Roundtable: Researching Tourism, Pilgrimage and Transformation through Photography
Debate around the Photography Exhibition

• Ellen Badone,
• Paolo Favero,
• Cyril Isnart,
• Humberto Martins,
• Sofia Sampaio

11 July

9:00-18:00 Fiedlwork trip to Fátima

Organisation

Anna Fedele
CRIA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
GSPM, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Cyril Isnart
CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora

Sofia Sampaio
CRIA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Host Institutions

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Cria)
Av. das Forças Armadas
Ed. ISCTE-IUL
1649-026 Lisboa
Portugal
cria@cria.org

Network of Anthropology of Religion (NAR)
Núcleo de Culturas Visuais (NCV)

Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades
da Universidade de Évora
Palácio do Vimioso
Apartado 94
7002-554 Évora
Portugal
cidehus@uevora.pt