Leeds, 14-16 January 2004. This three-day international conference encourages comparative and multi-disciplinary papers on issues of landscape, place identity and cultural representation within past and present Mediterranean contexts. We invite discussion about the portrayal of Mediterranean identities in relation to broader social, economic, technological and ideological circumstances. We hope to explore how perceptions and meanings occur, circulate and inform the understanding of cultural identity, travel encounters and experience. Offers of papers/presentations in English are invited on any of the following areas in Mediterranean contexts: Tourism and the imagination: travel, art, literary and cultural encounters Places, spaces and gender: landscapes, representations and visual politics Festivals, food and wine: performance, spectacle and consuming passions Public histories, policies and politics: knowledge, perception and intercultural relations Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2003. Further information: More info

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