[InetBib] Touring Consumption conference 2013 - Invitation & Call for Papers

[TC2013 <tc2013@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleague,

In the past years, we have held a range of intense and dynamic conferences at 
Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany: 
Narrative & Innovation 2010, Branded Spaces 2011, (re)Thinking Diversity 2012.
In 2013, we have designed, in a similar vein, Touring Consumption 2013 which 
will take place 24th to 25th October 2013. The conference will cover topics in 
the area of travel, tourism, mobility and consumption.

With this e-mail, we would like to invite you to send us your exciting ideas, 
thoughts and interpretations of touring consumption and present at our 
conference, share your opinions and establish ties with international experts.

Please find below an overview of our conference framework and contact details.

We have recently extended the deadline for our Call for Papers due to popular 
demand until Sunday 31st March, 2013!

Therefore, we are looking forward to your participation in our Call for Papers 
and wish you all the best in the meantime.

Many thanks and kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Stephan Sonnenburg, Prof. Dr. Desmond Wee and Your TC2013 Team at 
Karlshochschule International University


Touring Consumption 2013 - Call For Papers

Touring in terms of travel, tourism or varying aspects of mobilities contribute 
substantially to particular conventions and rituals of consumer practices, 
especially 
with an eye towards the enactment of scripts. However, touring consumption 
delineates a kind of performance that is not only reproduced, but is productive 
and 
emergent in its own right. Hence, the more traditional conceptions of tourist, 
pilgrim, 
vagabond, refugee, expatriate, international student or business traveler are 
becoming more and more diffused with notions of what are considered local, 
regular 
or insider, and need to be re-examined in the light of a differentiated, 
complex and 
individualized everyday perspective. On the other hand, it is as important to 
consider a touristification of society in which touring as an everyday metaphor 
can be used to encapsulate new forms of mobilities as societal, economic, 
consumptive or 
scientific phenomena.

During the conference, we wish to engage 'Touring Consumption' through 
interdisciplinary and cross-methodological approaches that collapse the poles 
of 
materialities and discourses, exteriority and interiority, body and mind, 
interpretation 
and meaning, presence and representation, ethics and aesthetics, and form and 
performance.


General Information
The conference will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 
Thursday 24th to Friday 25th October, 2013.

Conference Organizer
The conference is organized by Karlshochschule International University.

Conference Language
The conference language is English.


For further information, please check our conference website or contact the 
conference co-chairs:

       Website:         www.tc2013.org

       General mail:  tc2013@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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