SCHEDULE

Introduction

1. 9/11 Towards a Performance Studies Approach to Tourism
2. 9/18 Tourism: History, Industry, Discourse
3. 9/25 Rosh Hashana: Class cancelled

Part I: Primitivism, Visuality, Artifactuality, Performativity, and the Avant-Garde

4. 10/2 Theoretical Issues Proposal for book review essay due
5. 10/9 Case Study: American Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian
6. 10/16 Case Study: Pintubi Paintings Fred Myers, Performing Aboriginality. Proposal for research essay due

Part II: Public Memory and the Problem of Heritage

7. 10/23 Theoretical Issues
8. 10/30 Case Study: Ellis Island and Plimoth Plantation Book review essay due
9. 11/6 Case Study: Hawaii Christine Harrington, Topology of Entitlement

Part III: Performed Theory: Lessons from the Metamuseum

10. 11/13 Michael Fehr, Museums and Its Memory

Part IV: African Tourisms of Diaspora and Empire

11. 11/20 Theoretical Issues FILM: In and Out of Africa
12. 11/27 Case Study (Kenya): Maasai on the Lawn
13. 12/4 Case Study (Ghana): Edward M. Bruner, Represention of Slavery and Return of the Black Diaspora

Part V: Abject Tourism

14. 12/11 Case Study: Tourisms of War Research essay and portfolio due
15. 12/15 Conference (Saturday, full day)

Note: Field trips and short assignments are indicated in the syllabus.