CFP: Travel and Tourism (6/15/05; MAPACA, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

CFP: Travel and Tourism (6/15/05; MAPACA; 11/4/05-11/6/05)

Conference: Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association
New Brunswick, New Jersey
November 4-6, 2005

The annual MAPACA conference features roughly 90 interdisciplinary panels on
a wide range of topics. We plan to run several panels on Travel and Tourism.

The Travel and Tourism panels encourage a wide range of presentations,
papers, and multi-media displays about travel and tourism. The following is a
general list of suggested topics, but other topics and queries are certainly
invited.

Since travel writing appears in so many forms--novels and movies, fictions
and non-fictions and meta-fictions, cartoons and websites, journalism and photo
essays, advertisements and business reports, guide books and maps, reality TV
and virtual reality--please feel free to consider a very wide range of
materials and texts. These trips might take one anywhere from Disneyland to Holocaust
memorials, from the Walt Whitman house to the top of Everest, from Grand
Tours to forbidden countries, from personal misadventures to trips of a lifetime.
These travels often challenge our assumptions about allegedly simple terms,
such as tourist, traveler, map, picturesque, vulgar, forbidden, exile,
pilgrimage, exotic, border--and many others.

I am also planning to organize two special panels. The first, "Traveling with
Big Brother," would focus on security and privacy issues involving travel and
tourism. The second, "Traveling with Little Brother/Sister," would focus on
families and travel.

Please feel free to send questions or notes to Gene McQuillan, the Travel and
Tourism chair, at Genekcc_at_aol.com. An abstract of 250-500 words is required
by June 15, 2005.

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