This multidisciplinary scientific meeting will take place in Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel Island – Azores, at the facilities of the University of the Azores, and at other spaces that allow the decentralization of works.
The 1st edition, which will take place from 28 to 30 September, will focus on the theme Leisure, Travel and Tourism. Theses wide-ranging issues have been of enormous relevance from the distant past to the present day, because socializing and sociability have always integrated the habits of everyday life and travel, motivated by multiple imperatives, eventually triggering sightseeing tours which, since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, have enchanted social elites, ultimately extending to mass tourism. There were numerous travelers who crossed the Atlantic, first by sea and later by air, bridging both continents and islands.
Thus, the Conference seeks to bring together, in different panels, scholars and specialists in these matters, to analyze and debate the role of leisure and the habit of travel in daily life, at different periods of History, as well as their contribution to the increase of tourism that today has a global dimension.
Panels:
The Festivities in rural or urban context
Forms of leisure and sociability
Leisure and social places
The pleasure of the good food
Healthy mind in a healthy body – sports and tourism
Atlantic Crossings
Petit Tour and Grand Tour
Itineraries and touristic tours
Contributions to Cultural Tourism
Conference Languages – Portuguese; English, Spanish; French.
Call for papers – to 30 April.
Proposals for communication should include name of the author with the institutional affiliation, the indication of the panel, title, abstract (up to 200 words) and keywords (maximum 6). Please send attached a short biographical note (up to 250 words). All proposals should ne sent to : cham@uac.pt and with the subject: I Atlantic Conference.
Acceptance Information – until 17 June.
Inscriptions – until 31 July.
- PhD Speakers – 75 euros
- PhD Students and Grantees – 25 euros
- CHAM members ant teachers of the University of Azores – free of charge.
The organization ensures the accommodation with breakfast.
Scientific Board
Isabel Soares Albergaria (CHAM – Universidade dos Açores)
Irene Vaquinhas (CHSC – Universidade de Coimbra)
João Paulo Oliveira Costa (CHAM – FCSH – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Margarida Vaz do Rego Machado (CHAM – Universidade dos Açores)
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (CHSC – Universidade de Coimbra)
Maria Izilda Matos (PUC – S. Paulo – Brasil)
Robert Beck (Dép. d’Histoire – Université François-Rabelais, Tours)
Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester)
Susana Serpa Silva (CHAM – Universidade dos Açores)