The Eighth International Tourism and Media (ITAM) Conference

5-7th July, 2018 Liverpool, UK

The Production of Location

The eighth ITAM conference aim is to continue the network’s exploration of new ideas and debates sprung from the intersection between tourism industries and practices and those that broadly relate to the fields of media and communication. In this vein, the conference will aim to provide a forum where, taking their lead from Rodanthi Tzanelli’s concept of ‘global sign industries’ (2007), interdisciplinary research conversations gather pace around what are increasingly convergent fields of study and practice. While trends in scholarship on tourism and media are often reflective of discreet disciplinary dispositions, particularly those linked to perspectives in marketing and business, the necessarily open and ‘undisciplined’ terrain that defines the critical landscapes of media and tourism today demands a similarly open and undisciplined approach to keep pace with what is an ever-shifting and multi-stranded field of study.

The overarching theme of this conference is The Production of Location and we invite contributions that critically address questions of cultural brokerage in media tourism whilst continuing to welcome submissions from the inter- and cross-disciplinary traffic that informs the research on media and tourism and addresses a range of topics pertinent to both areas.

Dates: 5-7th July 2018

Location: School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK.

Keynote: Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli, Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Leeds (http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/tzanelli)

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by 30th March 2018 to: ITAM2018@liverpool.ac.uk

For enquiries please contact:

Dr Maria Månsson University of Lund, Sweden : maria.mansson@isk.lu.se

Dr Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University, UK : h.j.andrews@ljmu.ac.uk

Dr Les Roberts, University of Liverpool, UK : les.roberts@liverpool.ac.uk

The conference fee is £175 (conference meal and excursion optional extras TBC)

Further information will be posted on the conference website in due course: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/communication-and-media/itam2018