Tourist Productions Conference Saturday December 16, 1995 8:30 am - 7:00 pm Department of Performance Studies, TSOA, New York University Studio, 6th floor, 721 Broadway, corner Waverly 8:30 Registration and Transcontinental Breakfast Official Welcome: Barbara Kirshenblat-Gimblett ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00-10:00 Where is There? Chair: WENDY BLUM KURT LANCASTER, Traveling Among the Lands of the Fantastic: The Imaginary World and Simulated Environments of Science Fiction Tourism HENRY BIAL, Learning More From Las Vegas LIZZIE CZERNER, "No Really, Where is the South Street Seaport Museum?": An Analysis of a Mall/Museum Co-Venture ARI KELMAN, "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever": Consumption and Visuality at the Empire State Building JAYETTA SLAWSON, Bronx Zoo: Performance Museum Discussant: MAURYA WICKSTROM ---------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-10:30 At What Cost? Chair: ROBIN MALTZ MAURYA WICKSTROM, "We Won't Go Till We Get Some": Notes on a Disney Store as Corporate Performance VANESSA GRIMM, A Retail Museum: Barney's Makes Me Feel Like Shopping WENDY BLUM, MOMA's Cabinet of Commodities Discussant: HENRY BIAL ----------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30-11:00 Objects, Images, Stories Chair: ANN AXTMAN JEAN WILLIAMS, Ideology of Indebtedness: Reciprocity and Ingratiation in Japanese Culture YAEL RAVIV, Tourist Photography and the Performance of Memory PEGI VAIL, Tell Me a Souvenir: The Independent Traveller Discussant: BRANISLAV JAKOVLJEVIC ----------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 -11:15 Coffee Break ----------------------------------------------------------------- 11:15-11:45 Uncertain Itineraries Chair: PEGI VAIL CHRISTINE IADEROSA, From Mars to Mickey: The Incarnations of Times Square as Presented or Not in the BID Walking Tour FIONA BUCKLAND, Virtually Times Square: An Exploration of the Effects of a Virtual Tour on Real Bodies MARION JACOBSON, "Friend for a Day"?: New York City's Big Apple Greeters Make the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange Discussant: VANESSA GRIMM -------------------------------------------------------------- 11:45-12:30 (Mis)Guided (De)Tours Chair: JAMES R. POLCHIN LEANNE SIMS, In/Side/Out of Boro Park: The Welcomed Guest KURT DORSCHEL, Making a Scene: A Queer Geography of Tourism on Christopher Street ANDY INGALL, A (Mis)Guided Tour of the Haas-Lilienthal House: Fred Wilson at Work ROBIN MALTZ, Salon de Fleurus: A Site of Irony Discussant: FIONA BUCKLAND -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30-1:15 Lunch -------------------------------------------------------------- 1:15-2:15 Event Tourism Chair: YAEL RAVIV GILAD MELZER, When Love Comes to Town: Pope John Paul II's Visit to New York RACHEL ZETLAND, A Final Farewell to Rabin A. SCOTT CURRIE, Constructing Sound and Unity: An Avant-Garde Jazz Festival as Tourist Production CYNTHIA OLIVER, Marketing Tourism in the U.S. Virgin Islands: The Location of Carnival JULIE GOCHMAN, Jerusalem 3000 Discussant: FRED MOEHN ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2:15-3:00 Sites of Memory Chair: SONJA SPEAR REBECCA HANSON, Ellis Island: The Meaning of "American" CHRISTINE DOTTERWEICH, Ellis Island: The Wall of Honor BRANISLAV JAKOVLJEVIC, Picturing the Screen: The American Museum of the Moving Image JAMES R. POLCHIN, Creating a Cultural Space: The Politics of Exhibiting Lesbian and Gay History Discussant: KURT DORSCHEL ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3:00-3:45 Heritage Sites in the Making Chair: JODY SPERLING KANTA KOCHAR-LINDGREN, Schuylkill Heritage Corridor: Heritage Space in the Making ALLISON ARIEFF, Excavating Memory/Documenting History at the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum PAMELA BROWN, Monumental Problems: Building a Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City SONJA SPEAR, The Holocaust as American-Jewish Heritage Discussant: ANDY INGALL ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3:45-4:00 Coffee Break ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00-5:00 Transcultural Transactions Chair: SHANTI PILLAI NOREEN TOMASSI, Shopping for Cultures: The International Presenter as Tourist FREDERICK MOEHN, Puala's Hula: Producing Hawaii with the World Music Institute ERIN MEE, Ambassado Topeng: Productions of Topeng in the United States Borderzone SARA COFFEY, The Asia Society: Where Asia and America Meet SANSAN KWAN, Cloud Gate Dance Theater's "Nine Songs": Heritage, Site, Invented Tradition, Commemorative Ceremony Discussants: MARION JACOBSON and JEAN WILLIAMS -------------------------------------------------------------- 5:00-6:15 Changing Places Chair: ERIN MEE JODY SPERLING, The Magic Carpet Revue ASHLEY GALAWAY, An Afro-Cuban Dance Class: Extractions from a Bembe ASHLEY DAVID, Dancing African Dance in New York City: Travelers, Pilgrims, and a Touristic Borderzone SHANTI PILLAI, Destination Darshan: A Contemporary Pilgrimage CHARLOTTE CASTILLO, "This Path We Travel," A Walk in Two Worlds: National Museum of the American Indian ANN AXTMANN, The Native American Pow Wow: Cultural Heritage and Tourism Discussant: CYNTHIA OLIVER ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6:15-6:30 Closing Remarks: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -----------------------------------------------------------------