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2004 Local Frameworks and Global Realities?
TOURISM, POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY

9-10 September 2004

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED GUESTS

Professor Michael Hall University of Otago, New Zealand	*‘Tourism, Governance and International Relations: Rethinking the Tourism and Security Relationship ’* C. Michael Hall is Head of the Department of Tourism at University of Otago, New Zealand. Before coming to Otago, he was previously Professor of Tourism and Services Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and had also held positions at the University of Canberra, Massey University, and the University of New England. He also holds an honorary professorship with Stirling University, Scotland and is a Senior Research Fellow of the New Zealand Natural Heritage Foundation at Massey University.
Professor Linda Richter Kansas State University, USA	*‘Democracy and Tourism: Nature of an Untidy Relationship ’* Linda K. Richter is professor of political science at Kansas State University where she teaches a variety of courses unrelated to tourism, but in which she inserts subversive tourism examples. She is a member of IAST, an associate editor of Annals of Tourism Research and the Encyclopaedia of Tourism and is on the editorial board of Tourism Recreation Research. She has written two books on Asian tourism and co-edited another as well as numerous book chapters and articles. Her focus is tourism development and public policy. She also writes on agrarian reform, gender, and ethics and her regional emphases are South and Southeast Asia.
Professor Tom Selwyn London Metropolitan University, UK	*‘Keeping the Lid on Whilst Cooking: an Account of an EU Institution-Building programme in Bosnia-Herzegovina ’* Tom Selwyn is Professor of Anthropology at International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University and a founding member of Tourism Concern. His research focuses on Tourism in less developed countries, especially Mediterranean, tourism and regeneration.
William Richter Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University, USA and Invited Guests	Think Tank Session: Emerging Themes in Tourism, Politcs and Democracy Bill Richter began at Kansas State University in 1966, and his contributions include serving as head of the political science department, director of the KSU South Asia Center, chairman of K-State's Landon Lecture Series and associate provost for international programs. His areas of interest include democratic development (including elections, the military in politics and political party development) and security issues in the subcontinent. He has co-edited two books on American public policy issues: "Combating Corruption/Encouraging Ethics" and "The Landon Lectures: Perspectives From the First 20 Years."
Film Screening The Wistrand Collection South East Film and Video Archive (SEFVA) University of Brighton, UK In 2001 Mrs. Sylvia Maxwell donated a collection of 16mm films to the South East Film & Video Archive, which were made by her father Theodore H. Wistrand. He was a Swedish diplomat and ambassador, stationed in Japan from 1936 till 1939. T.H. Wistrand bought a camera at the start of this service with the intention to document his family as well as record his interests and his travels. The collection entails some 18 films, taken between 1936 and circa 1951, among them the featuring the Balinese maestro dancer and choreographer I Ketut Marya instructing young dancers. The film made in Bali at the end of 1939 focuses on Balinese life, dance and rituals. Contemporaries identified people, scenes and locations and the film is now considered a unique treasure, not only of Balinese history but holding distinct global interest. The film illuminates the thriving relationships between East and West through tourism and art. Bali was a hotspot in the 1930s and many Westerners visited or stayed on the 'Paradise Island', such as Walter Spies, Colin McPhee, Margaret Mead and many others.