Visiting academic at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsylvania
Oct 30, 2023
Location
Lancaster Pennsylvania, USA
Description
Invited to deliver a session summarising my reserach into genocide heritage to a cohort studying current topics in consumer psychology. This visit arose out of the 2022 Dark Tourism symposium at ENU.
Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm
May 5, 2022
Location
Craiglockhart Campus
Description
The Tourism and Languages Subject Group (the Business School) and the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University are delighted to announce details of a dark tourism research symposium, which will take place at the Craiglockhart Campus at Edinburgh Napier University and online on May 5th, 2022.
A growing interest in dark tourism as a recognised special category of tourism behaviour continues to attract the attention of academics from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies and anthropology. Recent contributors to the field have looked at contexts such as gulag tourism in Kazakhstan, edutainment interpretation at ‘lighter’ dark tourism attractions, the ethics and politics of digital displays in police museums, and the use of netnographic research methods to understand the motives and reactions of visitors to iconic Holocaust heritage sites.
This interdisciplinary symposium led by Professor Anne Schwan, Dr Craig Wight, and Dr Phiona Stanley seeks to bring together academics from a range of backgrounds to share ideas and recent research achievements as well as foster conversations between academic researchers and tourism or creative practitioners.
Speakers include:
Kat Brogan (Managing Director, Mercat Tours Edinburgh)
Professor John Lennon (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Professors Justin Piché (University of Ottawa) and Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg)
Dr Brianna Wyatt (Oxford Brookes University)
Professor Jeffrey S Podoshen (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA)
The symposium organizers welcome theoretical or applied research contributions in the form of structured abstracts on the following topics:
Digital dark tourism, including, but not limited to netnographic research and the uses of social media and web 2.0 in dark tourism
Dark tourism and memory
Visitor motives and visitor interpretation
Ethics and social justice in relation to dark tourism sites
Prisons and other penal history sites as examples of dark tourism
Creative practice artefacts involving dark tourism, e.g. films/photographs/installations
Dark tourism, mobilities and pilgrimage
Novel research methodological approaches and dark tourism
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2022
Please send your 250-word abstract and a short biographical statement (no more than 100 words) to darktourism@napier.ac.uk.
Every autumn, the Tourism subject area holds its annual Awards Luncheon, to celebrate the achievements of students from the preceding academic session. In 2019 the ceremony was chaired by David Jarman, in support of Michael Herriott as the overall coordinator. Ivana Rihova also played a coordinating role, both before and during the ceremony. A number of external partners are invited to attend each year, often in support of prizes and awards that they sponsor. These range from longstanding partners in the hospitality, tourism and events sectors, to public sector organisation at local and national levels of government.
Universities of Scotland Events Conference, 2017 (USEC2017)
Mar 24, 2017
Location
The Business School
Edinburgh Napier University
Craiglockhart Campus
Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1DJ
Description
From the online publicity and information pages:
The USEC returns to Edinburgh Napier in 2017! Universities of Scotland Events Conference (USEC) is an annual running event, bringing together Events Management students from across seven Scottish universities. USEC2017 is the fifth edition of the event, and the second time it has been to our Craiglockhart campus. It will take place from 12:00 noon on Friday 24 March, running through the afternoon.
USEC2017 features a sandwich lunch, keynote speakers from the festival and event industries, a choice of workshops, and a closing debate… and it’s FREE to attend.
The conference will be focusing on contemporary issues in the festival and event industries, from employability to sustainability in a challenging environment. We are due to welcome a keynote speaker from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, workshop hosts from the British Arts Festivals Association and Marketing Edinburgh, and a closing debate featuring guests from industry and academia. USEC2017 provides everyone a chance to learn from the professionals and to share opinions in workshop discussions. What’s more, there will be plenty of networking opportunities.
Look out for the Eventbrite sign up, and stay tuned for more details about USEC2017!
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh Napier!
