TOURIST PRODUCTIONS CONFERENCE
Sunday April 26, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
721 Broadway, 6th fl. Studio
For full texts of the research papers on which the oral presentations were
based, go to READINGS and scroll down to the
list of online articles.
8:30-9:00 Breakfast reception
Welcoming remarks: BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT
9:00-9:45 EPIC TOURISM
Chair: WENDY CLUPPER
BLAGOVESTA MONCHEDJIKOVA, Brooklyn Bridge Bound
NIELS DACHLER, Brooklyn Bridge Epilogue: A Different Bridge for a
Different Tourist
SUZANNE MULDER, The Word in Stone: A Vertical Tour of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
JOHN WINELAND, The Havana Biennale as Tourist Discourse
Discussants: KERMIT DUNKELBERG and DAWSON PRATER
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9:45-10:30 THE SPACE OF TIME
Chair: ARIN MASON
WENDY CLUPPER, The Production of Heritage at Living History Farms
BRIAN WALLIS, Step into the Past: The House Museum as Time
Capsule
PATRICK MARTINS, Unique Copies: The Case of Camden Yards
SARA BRADY, 160 Acres of Steel: How Bethlehem's Historic District
Erases the South Side
Discussants: LIZ SEVCENKO and LISA KNAUR
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10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
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10:45-11:40 HOOFING MANHATTAN
Chair: SUZANNE MULDER
TONI SANT, The Wall Street Aura
SOPHIA VACKIMES, Wall Street Enshrined
DANA M. BOLL, A Grayline Bus Tour Through Harlem
SUJANI REDDY, Good Tunes, Good Vibes, Good Times: Transcending
the Streets of Harlem Through Gospel Tourism
JEAN BAKER, House Tours: Theatrical Productions on the Most
Intimate Stages
Discussants: JAMYLA BREWTON and KATE BROWER
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11:40-12:30 ANIMATING SPACE
Chair: ELIZABETH SMITH
LIZ SEVCENKO, New York Yiddishkeit and Ethnic Delicacies: The
Battle for Jewish Cultural Hegemony and the Lower East Side
Immigrant Festival
JILLIAN GOULD, "This Looks Like Chinatown": Walking Tours of the
Jewish Lower East Side
EDYA KALEV, "The Ghost of a Performance": First Person
Interpretation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Discussants: ELKE KASCHL and SUZANNE GLICKSTEIN
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12:30-1:15 LUNCH
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1:15-2:00 FLYING SAUCERS
Chair: SUJANI REDDY
CLAUDIA BRAZZALE, Little Italy
LISA MAYA KNAUER, Cuban Restaurants in New York: Making Place,
Performing Identity
ARIN R. MASON, Placemaking: 'Les Deux Gamins' as Heterotopia
LACEY TORGE, What's the Post-Tourist to Eat? Commodifying and
Consuming Kitsch at the Original Drag Queen Restaurant
Discussants: PATRICK MARTINS and BARRY PERLMAN
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2:00-2:45 PALACES OF CONSUMPTION AND MEMORY
Chair: JULIA ULRICH
BARRY PERLMAN, Maceyland, "The World's Largest Store" and Other
Themes: Marketing Macy's to Tourists
MINAKO ESHI, "Japaneseness" at Yaohan
M.J. THOMPSON, Hand Bags
SUZANNE GLICKSTEIN, Documenting a Life: The Home as Environmental
Scrapbook
Discussants: BRIAN WALLIS and GLORIA McKENNA
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2:45-3:00 COFFEE BREAK
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3:00-3:20 TRAUMA AND TOURISM
Chair: JOHN WINELAND
JULIA ULRICH, "Meeting Hate with Humanity": Educational Tours on
the Holocaust at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust
KAYOKO TERAMOTO, "Tule Lake Pilgrimage: "A Journey of Remembrance
and Discovery"
Discussants: MINAKO ESHI and BLAGOVESTA MOMCHEDJIKOVA
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3:20-4:10 HERITAGE PERFORMANCES
Chair: TONI SANT
ADRIA IMADA, Producing "Polynesia": Radio Hula and New York's
Hawaiian Cultural Foundation
JAMYLA BREWTON, Memory, Community, Tradition: African Dance
Classes Uptown
ELKE KASCHL, Beyond the Nation in Israeli Folk Dancing: The
Politics of Space and Authenticity at the 92nd St. Y and the Town
and Village Synagogue
MICHELLE DENT, Mexican folklorico
GLORIA McKENNA, The Music of Nanad Bach: Taming the Old World,
Living in the New World
Discussants: CLAUDIA BRAZZALE and JAVIER SERNA
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4:10-5:00 TRAFFICKING IN INDIGENEITY
Chair: SARA BRADY
RAMIZA KOYA, In Morocco: Producing and Critiquing Modernity in
Edith Wharton's Travelogue
ELIZABETH SMITH, "Primitive Other" or "Our Distant Ancestors"?:
Nubian Identity in Tourism in Egypt
KERMIT DUNKELBERG, We're Still Here: Presenting Native
Americanness at the National Museum of the American Indian
JAVIER SERNA, Ghost Dance
DAWSON PRATER, Zoning and the Senses: Thematizing Indigeneity and
Nature at Foxwood's Gambling Casino
Discussants: LACEY TORGE and ADRIA IMADA
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5:00-6:00 WINE RECEPTION and VIDEO SCREENINGS