CALL FOR PAPERS
Worlds of Imagination:
Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World
April 7-9, 2021
Online conference / Erasmus University Rotterdam
https://www.worldsofimagination.eu/conference/
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dal Yong Jin
Sangkyun Kim
Mimi Sheller
Peter Dieke
Lúcia Nagib
Matt Hills
INTRODUCTION
In today’s globalized, transnational and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which the ties between people’s worlds of imagination and the real worlds they inhabit are made tangible through place.
This conference highlights the interconnections between media, tourism and place and aims to bring together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in this process while focusing on critical issues accompanying this multifaceted phenomenon.… read more. “Call: “Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World” Conference”