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.
