On the Surface: The Heritage of Mines and Mining
Training Type: Conference
Suitable for: Consultants, Others with an interest in urban land management, Students, Regulators, Problem holders, Practitioners, Developers
Provided By: The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University UK, in partnership with the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Language: English
Venue: University of Innsbruck, Austria, Austria
Date(s): 14/04/2011 to 16/04/2011
Duration: -3 Days
Cost: 
Abstract submission date:  The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University UK, in partnership with the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, welcome abstracts from a variety of disciplines and fields including: architecture, art history, history, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, geography, tourism studies, museum studies, archaeology, ethnology, linguistics and economics. Indicative themes of interest to the Conference include: · Histories and ethnographies of former mining communities · Issues of preserving and managing mining heritage sites · Mining for tourists – visitor experiences of mining heritage · Interpreting and representing former mining activity · Legacies and linkages with the contemporary mining sector · Mining labour - mobilities and mining diaspora · Memory, identity and belonging in former mining communities · The languages of mining communities Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to the conference manager Daniela Carl (ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than November 19th 2010.
Oral presentations requested: Yes
Poster sessions: No
Activities: Yes
Exhibition: Yes
Pre-conference field trips: No
Technical tours/ site visits: Yes
Post conference field trips: No
Other conference activities: 
Contact: daniela carl
Email:  ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk
Web Link:  http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html
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