25th and 26th of January 2024
The CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy (Universitat de Barcelona) and the Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo (Universidade do Algarve) organize the First International Conference on Literary and Film Tourism, to be held in Barcelona on 25 and 26 January 2024.
The theme of this first edition is "Imagined Territories: Tourist and Educational Approaches", and it aims to be a multidisciplinary meeting place for researchers, professionals, and students interested in the dialogue between territory and the layers of meaning generated by literature and film.
The conference also aims to discuss the educational and tourist potential of the cultural landscape created by literature and films.
Thematic lines
During this first edition of the International Conference on Literary and Film Tourism, different thematic lines will be discussed, such as:
Provisional
You can download the full program here.
26th January sessions | |
9:15 - 10:15 |
Keynote session 2: Deborah Castro |
10:15 - 11:15 |
Round Table: Film tourism |
11:15 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
11:45 - 13:45 |
Parallel sessions (see details here) |
13:45 - 14:00 |
Closing session |
Keynotes
Professor Mike Robinson
Mike is Professor of Cultural Heritage at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Before this he was Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and he remains Professor Emeritus. Mike was founder and director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at the Universities of Sheffield Hallam and Leeds Metropolitan over a twelve-year period where he also held research professorships in Tourism and Culture.
He has also held various visiting positions including Visiting Professorships at National Taiwan University (Graduate Institute of Planning) and University of Trento, Italy (Department of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Heritage), European Union Fellowship at the University of Illinois (Cultural Heritage), Research Fellow at University of KwaZulu-Natal (Department of Literature.
He is founder and is editor-in-chief, of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (published 6 issues per year by Routledge, Taylor-Francis) and founder and co-editor of the Tourism and Cultural Book Series (Channel View Publications) with over 60 international volumes published.
Mike has advised governments, transnational and state organisations, museums and heritage attractions, NGOs and community groups. He has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in over 40 countries, has supervised over 30 PhDs and has designed and organized 35 international academic and practitioner conferences.
Dr. Deborah Castro
Dr. Deborah Castro is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her main research interests lie in the fields of television and audience studies and she has participated in multiple funded research projects. In 2020, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission) to investigate local residents’ perceptions of media representations of their place of residence as well as local residents’ support for film tourism initiatives in Spain.
Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Television & New Media, European Journal of Cultural Studies and Tourism Management Perspectives. She is also a research fellow at ITI-LARSyS (Portugal) and vice-chair of the Television Studies Section at the European Communication Research and Education Association.
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