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• 15 oct 2014

  Chicago

  Call for papers - Modern

  Tourism Gentrification in the Metropolis

  American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 21-25 April 2015, Chicago

  This session intends to explain the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification in the contemporary metropolis. Several questions arise. How does tourism gentrification manifest itself and how does it affect the urban landscapes? What are the impacts for urban design and planning? Who are the actors, the beneficiaries and the victims of tourism gentrification? How do local (tourism) actors cope with tourism gentrification phenomena? What is the impact on local economies, urban functions and services? What are the outcomes for intra-metropolitan territories? What does it mean in terms of metropolitan governance?

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• 30 avr 2014

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Heritage and cultural diversity

  Tenth International Conference of Young Heritage Researchers

  City of one hundred spires, island or metropolis: Montreal has no one single descriptive title or nickname. The difficulty of attaching a label to the city is symptomatic of the identity of Montreal, which remains a city of diversity par excellence; the fact that it harbours the only “historic and natural district,” classified according to the former Cultural Property Act, and the National Historic Site of Canada called The Main, deemed a “corridor of immigration,” is just another sign. For the Tenth International Conference of Young Heritage Researchers, we are inviting doctoral and postdoctoral students, among others, to be inspired by the spirit of the host city and to reflect upon heritage and diversity. The conference will be held from October 3 to 5, 2014, at the Université du Québec à Montréal, under the scientific supervision of the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Luc Noppen, Université du Québec à Montréal), PARVI, the Interuniversity Research Group Concerning Landscape Representation, the City and Urban Identities (Lucie K. Morisset, Université du Québec à Montréal), and their partners.        

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• 20 fév 2014

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Local development and world heritage: attracting tourists or integrating inhabitants?

  Appel à communication pour le colloque « Développement local et patrimoine mondial : attirer les touristes ou intégrer les habitants ? », organisé dans le cadre du congrès de l'ACFAS, université Concordia, Montréal (Québec, Canada), 13 mai 2014. Les sites urbains du patrimoine mondial connaissent de plus en plus de tensions entre le développement de leur attractivité touristique et l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des résidents et de leur prise en compte. Le but du colloque est d’explorer l’influence du tourisme sur l’évolution et la gestion de ces sites, mais aussi sur les modalités de consultation et de participation des habitants.

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• 31 déc 2012

  New York

  Call for papers - Representation

  Objects From Abroad

  The Life of Exotic Goods in France and the United States (18th-20th centuries)

  This conference would like to concentrate on the goods imported in France and the United States between the 18th and the 20th century, and their existence within their new environment: business or tourist trips, where the exotic objects were collected and gathered in private spaces; scientific expeditions, where “anthropological” artefacts were collected for Western museums. What kind of things and goods were brought between the 18th and the 20th century? How were they exhibited, put on display, but also converted and updated? We wish to interrogate the life and “career” of goods, their collection and their circulation, as well as the way in which goods acted upon reception societies. What was the impact of these objects on ways to consume, to live, to dress, to create? What about the processes of translation and interpretation that accompanies such uses and appropriation?

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