The event will comprise of
seven internationally renowned keynote speakers on dark tourism:
Dr Philip Stone (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
"Mediating Mortality:
Dark Tourism and the Significant Other Dead at Ground Zero"
Dr Gilly Carr (The University of Cambridge, UK)
"Self and Other: neglected dark legacies and accepted dark heritage in the Channel
Islands"
Dr
Tony Johnston (Kings College, London)
"The Dominion of the Dead: Thanatourism and (Other) Worldly Encounters"
Prof. Tony Seaton (University
of Limerick, Ireland / University of Bedfordshire, UK)
"Flags of Convenience, Rocks of Reification, and Quicksands
of Theory: Charting Thanatourism in 2012"
Prof. Richard Sharpley (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
"Shining Light on Dark Tourism: an introduction
of themes, issues and consequences" (title TBC)
Major and Mrs Holt (Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guides and Maps)
"Pioneering the Modern Battlefield Tour"
Tony Openshaw (Director of Marketing
- Lancashire & Blackpool Tourist Board)
"Dark Tourism: a public sector perspective" (title TBC)
Abstracts will be available soon...
Tickets cost £89 (delegate rate) and £59 (student delegate rate) and includes:
- Full access to the conference
and speakers
- Conference
pack (including a collection of research papers and resources)
- Morning coffee
- Hot buffet lunch
- Afternoon tea
- Conference table refreshments
- Plenary session and exhibition space for networking.
