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24/01/2009 Hospitality and regeneration | Conference panel | Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference Manchester, 2009 26th-28th August Hospitality can play an important role in the regeneration process (Bell, 2007). Bars, cafes, restaurants, hotels and clubs provide the contexts for interaction, and transactions of hospitality facilitate the formation of networks and cultural practices that transform urban and suburban spaces (Latham, 2003; Lugosi and Lugosi, 2008). The provision and consumption of hospitality can become drivers of change in urban contexts; hospitality can provide the social and economic underpinning for ongoing regeneration, and its particular forms, for example culinary culture, offer 'powerful symbolic statements about urban fortunes' (Bell and Binnie, 2005, p. 80). The location of hospitality venues can be used as part of a civilising or rehabilitation process, and venues often reflect an area's cosmopolitanism; social and commercial practices of hospitality can encourage visitors or residents into an area, and its provision may form part of a broader strategy for capital and employment generation. However, certain forms of hospitality can disrupt the social practices of existing residents or visitors: for example, the emergence of branded hospitality venues can undermine the unique characteristics of an area; new venues may displace existing providers, and activities such as vertical drinking can create a range of social problems. This session welcomes papers that help to develop a greater understanding of the relationship between hospitality and regeneration, and we particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that explore one or more of the following issues: The role of hospitality in policy, planning and regeneration | Hospitality-led regeneration Creative cities, creative classes and hospitality | Hospitality, place-marketing and promotion | The economic, social and environmental impacts of hospitality provision in urban, suburban and rural contexts | Hospitality, culture and regeneration | Hospitality and gentrification | Hospitality, community and identity | Hospitality provision and building reuse | Entrepreneurship and hospitality | Heritage, hospitality and conservation | Aesthetics and hospitality | The entanglement of social and commercial forms of hospitality in regeneration. Authors should submit a 200-word abstract by Friday 16th of January to Peter Lugosi via email plugosi@bournemouth.ac.uk 23/01/2009 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film hosted by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University
http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2009/home. The film festival will be followed by a thematically linked interdisciplinary conference, 'Emotions in Motion: The Passions of Tourism, Travel and Movement' (4th to 7th July) for which I am the administrator. To present a paper in this conference, please send me an abstract of no more than 300 words together with your full address details and an abstract title. The official deadline to submit abstracts is 1st May 2009. However, in order to facilitate travel and funding arrangements for delegates, we offer a pre-admission deadline already on 28th February 2009.
and emotions, especially in the social fields of tourism and travel. In the latter, bodies and matter are set in motion; people move through unfamiliar grounds and are exposed to exotic sensations, to the heat or cold of water, snow and sunshine, to odours, tastes, smells, colours, and forms that contrast with the aesthetics of their quotidian environments. Tourism and travel make them leave their secure spaces of the familiar and expose them, in secure doses, to the unfamiliar. They involve a somehow calculated transgression of the ordinary, a ritualised temporary liquefaction of moral and aesthetic rules that frame everyday life. Motion disturbs the order of those in movement and challenges them to discover the familiar in the unfamiliar, to reconstruct and reconsider normality through the encounter of the extraordinary. It challenges them to repossess their bodies, to rethink the fundament of their being, to reassess the separations that configure the natures and identities of their belonging. For more information on the conference themes, please visit our website: www.tourism-culture.com With best wishes and on behalf of my colleagues and conference convenors, David Picard, Simone Abram and Mike Robinson, Jeremie Kuster | Conference administrator Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change | Leeds Metropolitan University| Old School Board 209 | Calverley Street – Leeds | LS1 3ED United Kingdom | j.kuster@leedsmet.ac.uk | www.tourism-culture.com 22/01/2009 19th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN): Nationalism and Globalisation
* Conflicting or complementary phenomena? * Nationalism and global political conflict * Global migration patterns and national identities * Globalisation and the emergence of new forms of nationalism * The impact of globalisation on national culture * Nationalism versus supranationalism * Pan-nationalism The conference will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on historical, theoretical and contemporary aspects of the theme.
for more information and to submit your proposal. 21/01/2009 9th International Conference: "Migration, Politics, and Work" Trier/Germany and Dudelange/Luxembourg, 25 - 27 June 2009 Organizers: Institute for Regional and Migration Research (IRM) (Trier, Germany), Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines (Dudelange, Luxembourg), Institute of Integration and Participation at the School for Social Work (FHNW) (Olten, Switzerland) Invitation to submit a proposal dealing with "Migration, Politics, and Work" in reference to one of the following topics. Please indicate the topic to which your proposal refers: Migration and global market for labor | Historical development of labor migration ?? Labor migration in exhibitions and museums | Migrational and labor market politics in Europe | Undocumented labor migrants in Europe - social, legal, and economic aspects | Feminization of migration and labor migration | Self-organization of labor migrants | Migration and labor unions | Migration and the social state If you are interested in giving a speech, we kindly ask you to submit a short abstract (max. of 500 words) with the title of your speech, a short biography, and contact details (e-mail, mobile/telephone, and postal address). Deadline for proposals: 21st December 2008 Conference languages: German and English. Information and contact: www.irm-trier.de; Tagung2009@irm-trier.de 20/01/2009 International Conference: "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts"
18/01/2009 International Conference: "Ships, Saints and Sealore: Maritime Ethnography of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea"
Sea captains, navigators, mariners, fishermen, pearldivers, merchants, commercial transactions, shipping, customs, taxes, slaves, death and burial Folklore and Belief - songs of the sea, tales and legends, superstitions, hymns, litanies and prayers, icons, votive paintings Technology - shipbuilding, ship typology, navigation, sails, anchors, shipwrecks Venue: The National Maritime Museum, il-Birgu, Malta Conference Website: www.um.edu.mt/events/maritimethnography2009/maritimeconf_index.html 17/01/2009 Colloque international ‘Le Sahara et ses marges : enjeux et perspectives de territoires en mutations’
16/01/2009 International Conference: "Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries: The Society and Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean, c. 500-1500"
15/01/2009 Research Associates/Fellows in Sustainable Mobilities and Travel Behaviour (up to 4 posts)
particular focus upon changing travel behaviours and sustainable mobility. Bringing together expertise in transport and in social sciences CTS aims to improve and promote understanding of the inherent links between lifestyles and personal travel in the context of continuing social and technological change. Further to securing substantial involvement in four new research projects to be pursued in 2009 and beyond, CTS is seeking to make a number of Research Associate or Research Fellow appointments. The four projects are as follows: * Renaissance - a European Union demonstration project focused upon urban transport sustainability. in which CTS will be involved in designing and evaluating measures to be implemented in the city of Bath
connectivity of older people in rural civic society - CTS will be examining the mobility needs of older citizens and how they can be provided for in a sustainable way. * A new study exploring how information on the environmental 'costs' of journeys can influence travel choice - CTS will be investigating socio-psychological factors that govern individuals' propensity to change their travel behaviour and considering the formats of information provision that may be effective in encouraging behaviour change.
shaping patterns of travel - this collaborative research will aim to chart past and present and especially future non-transport technologies and their (potential) impacts upon social practices and patterns of transport and mobility. We look forward to receiving applications from strongly-motivated individuals seeking to extend and develop their research skills in a dynamic academic environment.
Centre for Transport & Society Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England Frenchay Campus BRISTOL BS16 1QY Tel 0117 32 83219 Mobile 07748 768404 Fax 0117 32 83899 Email Glenn.Lyons@uwe.ac.uk 14/01/2009 Summer Programme for Students in Political Sciences & Middle East Studies, Galillee College
12/01/2009 New Book : 'Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt Since 1948'
ISBN 978-0-88728-313-0 e-ISBN 978-1-55250-443-7 288 pp.
– Rex Brynen, Coordinator, Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet, McGill University, Canada
Acknowledgments Timeline Maps
Introduction Chapter 1: Arriving in Egypt Chapter 2: Politics, Policies, and Attitudes in the Host State Chapter 3: Settling and Surviving in Egypt Chapter 4: Residency and Employment Chapter 5: Education, Health, and Financial Assets Chapter 6: Egypt and the PLO: Politics and Privileges Chapter 7: Palestinian Protection under International and Regional Conventions Conclusion: Refl ections on Identity and the Future Appendix 1: Research Sources and Methodology Appendix 2: Questionnaire Appendix 3: The 1965 Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinian Refugees Appendix 4: Note on the Applicability of Article 1D Bibliography Index
or http://www.palestine-studies.org/books.aspx 11/01/2009 New Cosmobilities Book : 'Aeromobilities'
10/01/2009 L'Anuari de la Mediterrània Med.2008 | Mediterranean Yearbook 2008 Consultable en línia L’IEMed i la Fundació Cidob han publicat l’anuari de la Mediterrània Med.2008, que reuneix més de seixanta experts i analistes internacionals per fer balanç i analitzar els principals esdeveniments i tendències polítiques, socials, econòmiques i culturals que s’han registrat durant l’any 2007 a l’àrea euromediterrània. Directory: fass fass -> Bypassing and waping: Reconfiguring Timetables for ‘Real-time’ Mobility fass -> The lessons from the anarchist experiences on urban social cohesion fass -> Lite 304 Anglophone Children’s Literature fass -> New literacies, old identities: Girls’ experiences of literacy and new technologies at home and school fass -> The involvement of communities in the development and delivery of csr policies Download 1.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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