Grossbritannienzentrum der Universitaet Tuebingen
Internationales Symposium
Kontakt:
PD Dr. Hartmut Berghoff
Lehrstuhl Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Universitaet
Tuebingen
Nauklerstr 47
72074 Tuebingen
Tel. +49 (0)7071/ 2972124 oder 2978167
e-mail: hartmut.berghoff@uni-tuebingen.de
oder
Dr. Ralf Schneider
Seminar fuer Englische Philologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstr. 50
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
Tel +49 (0)7071/29 74286
Fax +49 (0)7071/275934
Saturday, 19 February 2000
9.00-9.30 Introduction (Hartmut Berghoff and Barbara Korte)
1. General Topics (Chair: Chr. Harvie)
9.30-10.20 John Walton (University of Central Lancashire):
"British Tourism between Industrialisation and Globalisation: An Overview"
10.20-10.30 Tea/Coffee
10.30-11.20 Hartmut Berghoff (University of Tuebingen)
"From Privilege to Commodity: Modern Tourism and the Rise of the Consumer Society"
2. Towards Tourism (Chair: E. Kilian)
11.20-12.00 Helga Quadflieg (Munich):
"Inventing Englishness: Late 16th and Early 17th-Century Travelers"
12.00-2.30 Lunch break (guided walk through the town of Tuebingen)
2.30-3.20 Chloe Chard (London):
"Viewing Sights and Wonders: The Grand Tour, Tourism and the Problems of Managing Pleasure"
3.20-4.10 Stephen Prickett (University of Glasgow):
"Circles and Straight Lines: Romantic Versions of Tourism"
4.10-5.00 Gerhard Stilz (University of Tuebingen)
"Heroic Travellers, Romantic Landscapes: The Colonial Sublime in 19th- Century American, Indian and Australian Art and Literature"
5.00-5.20 Tea/Coffee
3. Inventing and Reinventing Tourism
a) Socio-historical perspectives (Chair: H. Berghoff)
5.20-6.10 John Beckerson (University of East Anglia, Norwich):
"Marketing British Tourism: From Voluntarism to State Action"
6.10-7.00 Richard Stinshoff (Universitaet Oldenburg):
"Recycling Industrialisation: The Fall and Rise of the British Canals"
8.00 Dinner/Reception
Sunday, 20 February 2000
9.00-9.50 Christopher Harvie (University of Tuebingen)
"Rider on the Iron Horse: L.T.C. Rolt and Britain's Industrial Heritage"
9.50-10.40 Christopher Bailey (University of Northumbria)
"Made in England: The Countryside, Crafts and Rural Industries in the Age of the Weekend Tourist"
10.40-11.00 Tea/Coffee
b) Literary perspectives (Chair: R. Schneider)
11.00-11.50 Tobias Doering (Freie University Berlin):
"Touring into Transience: Graveyards and British Travelling"
11.50-12.40 Eveline Kilian (University of Tuebingen):
"Exploring London: Walking the City û (Re-)Writing the City"
12.40-2.10 Lunch
2.10-3.00 Barbara Korte (University of Tuebingen)
"Julian Barnes, England, England: A Critique of Postmodern Tourism"
4. Contemporary Tourism (Chair: B. Korte)
3.00-3.50 Sue Wright (Sheffield Hallam University)
"Mass Tourism as an Individual Experience"
3.50-4.40 Harald Husemann (University of Osnabrueck):
"We Will Fight Them on the Beaches"
4.40-5.00 Tea/Coffee
5.00-5.50 Stuart Marlow (University of Essen)
"Tourism and the Celtic Fringe: More than a Question of Heritage"
5.50-6.40 Kurt Kohn (University of Tuebingen)
"Language Travels Through the Internet"
6.40-7.10 Conclusion/Discussion (Chair: G. Stilz)
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