For our 27th Annual Conference, NCSA encourages proposals that explore the meanings of travel, tourism, and resorts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Travels through time and space
• Travel of the mind/inward
• Travel companions/solitary or group travelers
• The laws of travel
• Economies/Business of travel
• Travel destinations—city/walking/boat tours
• Tours/Travels with children
• Mysterious, quiet, indiscreet travelers
• Traveling spectacles
• Traveling secrets
• Journeys East or West/home or abroad
• The Middle Passage
• Means/Modes of Travel
• Travel innovations and progress
• Traveling artists, preachers, teachers, & librarians
• The distance we’ve traveled
• Migration, immigration, emigration
• Getaways and hideaways
• Resort architecture; architecture of sport & leisure
• Architectural sites as travel destination
• Representation of travel in art & literature
• Representation of sport and leisure in art/lit

Papers may come from the fields of architecture, art history, ethnic or race studies, history, literature, medicine, museum or library studies, music, or the social sciences. NCSA was founded to promote interdisciplinarity; proposals which approach the theme of the conference from an interdisciplinary basis are especially encouraged.