Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Ready to roll Finally, the day has arrived and we are ready to roll. Today is the start of what promises to be an exciting 3 days of intellectual stimulation and human connection...Check out the … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage 2026 Conference (1-3 June 2026): ready to roll
In the last week of August 2025, I spent one intense week with a group of wonderful colleagues in a research sandpit event organised by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in Westelbeers. We worked together in developing a research proposal under the the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) Call ‘Slavery pasts: (understudied forms of) impacts and … Continue reading €3.2 million consortium grant for research into the understudied impacts of the Dutch slavery past.
Course schedule DatesStart timeEnd timeLocationCoordinatorregistrationsapp/max May 25-June 3, 2026WageningenMarcella HaanApply Course description The Centre of Expertise for Transformative Mobilities at WUR (CENTMOB), invites to a graduate workshop on Critical Tourism Studies focused on systematically and critically investigating complex socio-environmental dynamics, governance structures, power relations and inequalities in relation to mobilities. Through the democratization of travel, transport … Continue reading Critical Tourism Studies PhD Graduate Workshop (Summer School): 25 May – 3 June 2026 at Wageningen University & Research
Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Submissions closed We are happy to notify interested persons that unfortunately, the deadline for expression of interest has now passed. The deadline was Friday 30 January. We have received an overwhelming number of high quality … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage conference, 1-3 June 2026: submissions closed
Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Keynote Speakers Nancy Jouwe is a Netherlands-based cultural historian and works as a freelance researcher, lecturer, writer and curator. She is part of a Papuan refugee community in the Netherlands. Her father hails from West … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage conference, 1-3 June 2026: keynote speakers confirmed
Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Call For Participation: What happens on a guided tour of Auschwitz? Which narratives emerge on an organized visit of a former slave plantation? Which stories get told by guides in a museum that curates colonial … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage conference, 1-3 June 2026: 3rd and final call for participation
Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Call For Participation: What happens on a guided tour of Auschwitz? Which narratives emerge on an organized visit of a former slave plantation? Which stories get told by guides in a museum that curates colonial … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage conference, 1-3 June 2026: 2nd call for participation
Tourism, memory and heritage emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration 1-3 June 2026 Amsterdam & Wageningen The Netherlands Call For Participation: What happens on a guided tour of Auschwitz? Which narratives emerge on an organized visit of a former slave plantation? Which stories get told by guides in a museum that curates colonial … Continue reading Tourism, Memory and Heritage conference, 1-3 June 2026: first call for participation
Collaborate and contribute to a monumental tapestry about the Dutch Slavery past. The Cultural Geography Chair Group at Wageningen University and Research is the host and coordinator for the making of a piece of the tapestry of the project ‘Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past’. In an earlier iteration of the project last Spring we moved around … Continue reading Tapestry project! Join in at Wageningen University!: Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past (Draden van ons Nederlands Slavernijverleden)
In Ghana (Akan Twi) we say that "Ti koro nko agyina" which literally means that "One head (person) does not hold council.". We also know that two is often better than one. In this context, I am delighted to announce that I am now recruiting for a postdoctoral researcher as many hands makes light work. … Continue reading Vacancy Notice: Postdoctoral researcher for ‘Tourism’s intersection with slavery and colonial heritage in the context of cultural memory politics’
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 