Friday

Panel 1: The Packaged Tour
Theresa Collins
Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University
Designs for Global Living: Revisiting Intercontinental Hotels

Evan Ward
University of North Alabama
Return of the Prodigal Sun: Zanadu and the Europeanization of Cuban Tourism, 1908-present

Kenneth J. Perkins
University of South Carolina
The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa

Comment: Christine Skwiot (Georgia State University)

Panel 2: Marketing Place
Thomas Zeller
University of Maryland, College Park
Consuming Landscapes: Creating Landscapes for Tourism in the United States and Germany, 1920-1970

Philip Whalen
Coastal Carolina University
The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consumer Utopia

Molly Hurley
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Living History' in Belfast: The Tourism of Political Violence

Comment: Janet Davidson (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

Panel 3: Tourism of the Cold War
Patrick Patterson
University of California, San Diego
Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Bloc Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s

Keith R. Allen
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Nuclean Armageddon as Roadside Attraction. Visiting the Cold War in Germany, South Africa, and the United States

Shawn Salmon
University of California, Berkeley
Dollars Non Olet: Intourist and Hard Currency Stores in Soviet Russia

Comment: James Brophy (University of Delaware)

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Panel 4: Religion
Brian Bixby
University of Massachusetts
Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers and Visitors

Suzanne Kaufman
Loyola University Chicago
Plastic Madonnas and Packaged Holy Tours: Pilgrimage to the Lourdes Shrine and the Culture of Consumption

Aaron Ketchell
University of Kansas
I would much rather see a sermon than hear one': Consuming Faith at Silver Dollar City

Comment: Ann Boylan (University of Delaware)

Panel 5: Nature
David L. Harmon
Finger Lakes Community College
Getting Back to Nature: Woodcraft, Leisure Camping, and the Rise of the Recreational Vehicle Industry

James Alsop
McMaster University
Science in the Service of Tourism: The Florida Board of Health and the Quest for the Tourist, 1890-1914

Donald G. Wetherell
University of Calgary
Making the Animals Pay: The Tourist Trade in Prairie Canada, 1930-1950

Comment: Bryant Tolles (University of Delaware)

Panel 6: Tools
Micheline Nilsen
Indiana University South Bend
From Travel Companion to Planning Tool: The Guidebook as Compiler of Architecture History

Guillaume de Syon
Albright College
Consuming Airspace: Airline Advertising Maps and Tourism, 1919-1939

Comment: Roberta Tarbell (Rutgers University)