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2nd Call for Papers
1st International Research Forum on Guided Tours
Halmstad University, April 23‐25th, 2009
For more information about the conference: http://www.hh.se/konferenser
Research regarding guiding involves several aspects of
sustainable spatial planning, place arketing and tourism who informs,
develop and manage knowledge concerning ompanies, rural‐ and city
planning and cultural heritage. Guiding is an activity that can be
tudied from an interdisciplinary research perspective. Guiding is for
instance part of the xperience industry where the meetings between
people and new environments can be ugmented through technologies.
We hereby invite you to an international conference in Halmstad, Sweden
on April 23‐25th 009! We are seeking papers related to deliberate and
unintended attempts at leading and rganizing, at giving alternative
voices of producing places and the experience of places, in iterature,
music, art and other cultural expressions. We are particularly
interested in eflective, concept‐driven and empirically grounded papers
that creatively and critically ssess guided tours in familiar settings
of cities and rural landscapes as well as unfamiliar ettings guided
tours not normally linked to cities.
We welcome papers that refer to, but are not limited to, themes such as:
• The production of guiding images and representations
• Technologies supporting guided tours
• Experiences produced in guided tours
• Guiding and sustainability
• Substance and stimuli produced by guided tours
• Guided tours as alternative empirical voices in city‐ and rural research
• The language of guiding and guiding with words
• Different types of guided tours (transportation, content, target groups)
• Alternative understandings of guided tours
• Contextualizing guided tours
• Guiding and disabilities
• Poetics and politics of guided imaginaries
• Economical aspects of guiding
Key note speakers:
• Mark Wilson is Associate Director of the School of Planning, Design and Construction at
Michigan State University (see more information below). “Guides, Spies and National
Identity: Personal Encounters at the World’s Fair”
• Professor C. Michael Hall, PhD.
Department of Management, College of Business & Economics, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand http://http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/people/hall.shtml
Proposals for papers should be within 150 words, and include your name, affiliation and mail address. Abstracts are to be submitted to all of the Conference Organizing Committee members
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Important deadlines:
‐ Submission of abstracts by December 15nd, 2008
‐ Decision of accepted abstracts are given no later than December 20st, 2008.
The product of the conference will be a book proposal involving a selection of contributions ade within the conference theme.
Conference Organizing Committee
Petra Adolfsson, Ph.D Göteborg Research Institute, GRI, Göteborg university:
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Rolf Solli, professor, Göteborg Research Institute, GRI, Göteborg university:
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Mikael Jonasson, Ph.D Social‐ and Health Sciences, Halmstad university college:
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Peter Dobers Peter Dobers, Professor School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Mälardalen University
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Anette Hallin, Ph.D Student, The Royal Institute of Technology:
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