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THURSDAY 18 November 2021 - all times CET (GMT+1)
14.00–14.15: Welcome and introductory remarks by Andreas Greiner (German Historical Institute Washington) and Mikko Toivanen (Munich Centre for Global History)
14.15–15.45: Panel 1 - Tourism and infrastructure
Shraddha Bhatawadekar (Brandenburg University of Technology): The role of Railway Publicity in Tourism Promotion in India: Cultural Politics of the Inter-war Period
Laith Shakir (New York University): “The Magic Carpet Up to Date:” Imperial Aviation, Development, and Tourism in Interwar Iraq
Elliott Sturtevant (Columbia University): Conditioning Tourism and Trade Aboard the “Great White Fleet”
Discussant: Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU München)
16.00-17.30: Panel 2 - Tourism and learning
Antonio Monte Casablanca (Freie Universität Berlin): Folk studies and Mestizaje in Nicaraguan tourism (1955-1979)
Timothy Nicholson (Farmingdale State College): Civilizing the Student: Domestic Tourism for Imperial Subjects
Evgeniya Zakharova (Moscow Kremlin Museums): "We saw the immense Russia, we saw the Great White Tsar": tourist trips of Turkestan youth to European Russia in 1899-1902
Discussant: Eric G.E. Zuelow (University of New England)
22.00-23.30: Panel 3 - The workers of tourism
Kris Alexanderson (University of the Pacific): Imperial Learning at Sea: Dutch Passenger Liners as Colonial Classrooms, 1920s-1930s
Candida Keithley (University of Auckland): ‘A glimpse of Wonderland’: Māori guides’ creation of ‘imagined Whakarewarewa’
Susie Protschky (Deakin University): Javanese porters and guides and the colonial origins of geotourism and volcanology
Discussant: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (University of Hawai’i)
FRIDAY 19 November 2021 - all times CET (GMT+1)
17.30-19.15: Panel 4 - Developing tourism
Semih Gökatalay (University of California, San Diego): A “Fair” Tourism for all? Trade Fairs and Colonial Tourism in the interwar Middle East
Dörte Lerp (Freie Universität Berlin): Tourism as a late colonial development strategy in East Africa
Arnout van der Meer (Colby College): Touristic Upland Cultures: Mountain Resorts and Tourist Networks in Colonial Indonesia
Jessica Lynne Pearson (Macalester College): Destination Development: Global Tourism between Empire and Economic Sovereignty
Discussant: Robert Kramm (LMU München)
19.15-19.30: Final remarks by Andreas Greiner and Mikko Toivanen
Contact Info:
Dr Andreas Greiner (German Historical Institute, Washington): greiner@ghi-dc.org
Dr Mikko Toivanen (Munich Centre for Global History): mikko.toivanen@lmu.de