Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, Co-Founders IASESP

Program Schedule

April 25-April 27, 2008

Friday, April 25BurkshireConferenceCenter

Rogers Forge

8:10 am – 7:00 pmRegistration and Refreshments

8:40 – 9:00Welcoming Remarks:

Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, Co-founders IASESP

Session 1

Touring nature and identity

Chair: John ScottMemorialUniversity of Newfoundland

9:00-9:30:Troy Paddock, Southern ConnecticutStateUniversity Touring and the Natural Environment: Viewing the Mosel

9:30-10:05: Tait Keller, TowsonUniversity

Out of the Ruins: Touring the Alps and Recovering from Defeat in Germany, 1919-1933

10:05-10:40:Malcolm Woollen PennsylvaniaStateUniversity

Types of Barrowing: Bernard Lassus’s L’aire de Nimes-Caissargues

10:40-10:45: Refreshment Break

Session 2

Chair: Steve SandbankIndependent scholar

10:45-11:20:Gary Backhaus Co-founder IASESP

IASESP and the Geographical Turn

11:20- 11:55:Jason MatzkeUniversity of MaryWashington

Walking in Nature: Thoreau’s Local Ambles or Muir’s Wilderness Treks?

11:55-12:30: JohnScott MemorialUniversity of Newfoundland

"Hans Jonas and Gerald Pocius: Tourists in Their Natural Places?"

12:30-1:30 LUNCH: Nathan T’s Restaurant, BurkshireCenter

Session 3

Touring: Where to go and not go.

Chair:Troy Paddock Southern ConnecticutStateUniversity

1:45-2:20:Philip WhelanCoastal CarolinaUniversity

"Early Cyclotourism along Burgundy’s Routes des Vins"

2:20-2:55:Christine Petto Southern ConnecticutStateUniversity

The Early Modern Post-Chaise Companion: Touring the Cities of London and Paris

2:55-3:30: Derek Shanahan MillersvilleUniversity

The Whitechapel Murders

3:30-3:40:Refreshment Break

Session 4

Chair: Dennis Skocz, Independent Scholar

3:40-4:15:John Murungi,TowsonUniversity

The Sublime and the Desert Aesthetic

4:15-4:50:Susan Allen,California Institute of the Arts

Touring as “Home”: Nomadism and the Tuareg

4:50-5:25:Linda Ardito,DowlingCollege

Expressionism Exploring the Subjective Journey

5:25-5:30: Refreshment Break

Session 5

Chair: Derek Shanahan, MillersvilleUniversity

5:30 -6:05:T.R.Kover Leuven, Belgium

A Moveable Home: On the Difference between a Nomadic and Touristic Sense of Belonging and Place

6:05-6:40: David Dillard Wright University of South Carolina, Aiken Placing Humanity: The Reconstruction of Pre-history at Lascaux

6:40-7:15: Steve Sandbank Independent Scholar

“On the Road”

7:45pm Dinner Group Dinner (optional, location TBA)

Saturday April 26, 2008

TowsonUniversity

Linthicum Hall Rm 007 and 009

All “a” Sessions will be in Rm 007, and all “b” Sessions will be in Rm 009.

8:30-9:00: Coffee

Session 6a

Encounters of Tourism

Chair, Jennifer Ballengee, TowsonUniversity

9:00-9:35: Geraldine FinnCarletonUniversity

Going places

9:35-10:10: Arndt Niebisch,University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Kafka’s Techno Tourists

10:10-10:45: Roger PadenGeorgeMasonUniversity

Tourism and Ecotourism

Session 6b

Tourism and racism

Chair: DeMond Shondell MillerRowanUniversity

9:00-9:35: Keely Maxwell Franklin and Marshall

On the Trail of Ecotourism in Peru

9:35-10:10: Elizabeth HoppeLewisUniversity

Tourism as Racism: Frantz Fanon and the Vestiges of Colonialism

10:10-10:45:Nicole King University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty

The AtlanticBeach Bikefest Controversy: Race, Rights, and Tourism on the South CarolinaCoast

10:45-10:55:Refreshment Break

Session 7

Tourism and Material Artefacts.

Chair: Roger Paden GeorgeMasonUniversity

10:55-11:30:RDK Heramnn TowsonUniversity

Going Native: Mediating indigeneity at the National Museum of the American Indian.

11:30-12:05: Danille LaSusaTempleUniversity

Places, Sites, and Souvenirs

12:05-12:40:Jennifer Williams,AshlandUniversity

The Material Culture of the Alaskan Tourism Trade

Session 7b

The Feminine and Experience of Tourism

Chair: Geraldine Finn

10:55-11:30: Celia Bardwell-Jones TowsonUniversity

Meeting Tourism Halfway: Implications of Barad’s Agential Realism to Modern Touristic Experience

11:30-12:05:Paul Pojman and Evelyn Wright, TowsonUniversity

By the Waters of Babylon: the search for a non-identity

12:05-12:40:Jo-Ann Pilardi TowsonUniversity

Touring the Motherland

12:40-1:45: LUNCH Newall Hall

Session 8a 1:50-3:35

Chair: Arndt NiebischUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro

1:50-2:25: Dennis Skocz Independent Scholar

On the Roadwith Martin Heidegger: Sojourner, Pilgrim, Tourist?

2:25-3:00:Dennis WoodEdith Cowan University

From Flaneurisme to Volunturism: Touristic Spaces and the ‘Authentic’

3:00-3:35 Alphonso Lingis PennsylvaniaState Univeristy

Space Travel

Session 8b

Chair: RKD HermannTowsonUniversity

1:50-2:25: Jason D. Rivera and Joel YelinRowanUniversity

The Geography of the Pilgrimage: Place and Spirituality in Japanese Buddhism

2:25-3:00:Ping Fu TowsonUniversity

Encountering the Chinese Ethnic: Culture Consumption and Special Dialectic Through Lens

3:00-3:35: Joanne ChoWilliamPattersonUniversity The Travel Diary of Herman Keyserling: The Voyage of Soul

3:35-3:45: Refreshment break

Session 9a 3:45-6:25

Placing Touring

Chair: Jo-Ann PilardiTowsonUniversity

3:45-4:20:Paloma Puente Lozano

Rethinking travel, tourism and mobility in connection with contemporary theories of place.

4:20-4:55:Glen Mazis PennStateHarrisburg

Touring as Authentically Embodying Place or Dwelling versus Packaged Touring

4:55-5:30:Gabrielle ArutaWest ChesterUniversity

The Ethics of Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Critical Analysis of My Experience as an Ecotourist

5:30-6:05:

9b

Tourism and Tragedy:

Chair: Christine Petto Southern ConnecticutStateUniversity

3:45-4:20DeMond Shondell MillerRowanUniversity

Disaster Tourism: The Commodification of Landscape, Tragedy and Disaster

4:20-4:55:Chris Bell TowsonUniversity

On Being the Hyper-visible “Other” at Auschwitz

4:55-5:30:Jeremy HubbellCUNYCityCollege “Maiden Suicide and the Art of Making Places in the Upper Mississippi, 1824-1911”

5:45 -6:45 pm (hopefully): IASESP Business meeting

Sunday April 27, 2008

TowsonUniversity

Linthicum Hall Rm 007 and 009

All “a” Sessions will be in Rm 007, and all “b” Sessions will be in Rm 009.

8:30-9:00 Coffee

Session 10 9:00-10:45

Nature and Tourism

Chair: Troy PaddockSouthern ConnecticutStateUniversity

9:00-9:35: Peter Nekola

The Great Lakes in the Long Duree

9:35-10:10Shane Ralston Pennsylvania State University/CREUMThe Ebb and Flow of Primary and Secondary Experience: Kayak Touring and John Dewey's Metaphysics of Experience

10:10-10:45Richard Wilson University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty

"Ethical Issues in Adventure Tourism: Focus Mountaineering.

Session 10b

Chair: Gary Backhaus

9:00-9:35 Stéphane Valgones The Mont Saint-Michel a sacred site between mass tourism and touristic strategies

9:35-10:10: Valérie Vitalbo Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse

Visiter la ville par les parcours d’interprétation

Session 11 10:55-12:40

Resourcing Tourism

Chair: Steve Sandbank

10:55-11:30:Michael Wenisch

The Socio-Economic and Ethical Implications of Hard Energy Limits for the Future of Tourism

11:30-12:05Chris Büscher Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The Midget and the Giant: Transfrontier Tourism between Lesotho and South Africa

12:05-12:35 Jefferson Lorencini Gazoni Travel to the Commons: economic valuation of tourist utility of environmental resources in Itaúnas, Brazil.

12:45-1:30 Lunch Newall Hall