[Seminar] Enduring Legacies: War Heritage and Tourism in Asia and the Pacific

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Center for Tourism Research (CTR), Wakayama University, holds a Seminar.

Professor Keir Reeves (Federation University Australia) will present the legacy of war and tourism in the Asia and the Pacific.

*No registration, no registration fee required.

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Theme

Enduring Legacies: War Heritage and Tourism in Asia and the Pacific

Abstract

The legacy of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific is an enduring one. Increasingly, cultural heritage and tourism serve as the touchstones by which current generations engage with the experience and memory of war and peace. The idea of contested memory provides one way of explaining interpretations of the past and management of heritage sites in the present day. While history is a discipline that studies the past, heritage is the constructed depiction of the past in the present day and tourism often serves the vehicle that drives popular memories of war and more practical concerns such as site visitation and, for some areas, regional development. This is equally true for Pacific Island states as it is for continental Asia. While they are often spoken of as having an intellectual commonality in terms of their concern with understanding the past history, heritage and tourism are all often deployed for political purposes and directly influence the ways that communities and, for that matter, nation states remember the past.

Date

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Time

13:30¡«15:00

Venue

CTR Common Room, Bldg. West 1, Wakayama University
(Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city)

Speaker

Prof. Keir Reeves£¨Chair of History at Federation University Australia)

Professor Keir Reeves currently holds a Chair of History at Federation University Australia. His previous principal teaching and research positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University have been in global cultural heritage, cultural tourism and history. His professional positions include an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Industry at the University of Melbourne, a five-year Monash Fellowship (later Senior Monash Fellowship) as well as Chief Investigator roles on five ARC Projects. He has also been Visiting Fellow to Clare Hall Cambridge, a Visiting Researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, a Senior Rydon Fellow and Bicentennial Fellowships at King¡¯s College London. Keir was also a visiting fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Keir¡¯s publications include co-editing Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ¡®difficult heritage¡¯ (Routledge, 2009). He also contributed to the Bruce Scates-led Anzac Journeys: Walking the battlefields of the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2013), that was shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Historical Association Ernest Scott Prize. In 2019 he was a visiting fellow to the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University.

Contact

Center for Tourism Research
Wakayama University

Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN

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