[Workshop] CTR workshop series 2025 Extra Session “Transculturalism, Mobility, and Performance Events”
公開日 2025.08.05
The Center for Tourism Research (CTR), Wakayama University has held workshops for students and young researchers since 2022. Three sessions have been held in a hybrid format at Wakayama University and online this year.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Leo Rafolt from the Academy of Arts and Culture, University of Osijek, Croatia, for another session. He will present the intersections between transculturalism, mobility, and performance art, drawing insights from mobility studies, (trans)cultural theatre and performance studies, and human geography. In doing so, the presentation will focus on how performance, in its diverse forms, serves as a dynamic site for the negotiation and expression of fluid cultural identities in an increasingly “overheated” world (T. Hylland Eriksen).
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CTR workshop series for students and young researchers 2025
Extra Session “Process Theorizing in Tourism Management Research”
Overview
This lecture will try to present the intersections between transculturalism, mobility, and performance art, drawing insights from mobility studies, (trans)cultural theatre and performance studies, and human geography. The focus will be put on how performance, in its diverse forms, serves as a dynamic site for the negotiation and expression of fluid cultural identities in an increasingly “overheated” world (T. Hylland Eriksen). Building on the work of scholars such as Patrice Pavis and Erika Fischer Lichte, the lecture will try to reflect on how various mobilities – from the physical movement of artists and audiences (especially in the context of cultural tourism) to the circulation of ideas and aesthetics – fundamentally shape the recreation of transcultural dynamics. These events are not merely reflections of cultural exchange but active processes through which new cultural formations emerge, closely connected with notions of migrations, indigineusness, degrowth, emancipation, etc., thus challenging static notions of identity and belonging. Furthermore, the lecture incorporates several case studies to understand how performance events reconfigure and are reconfigured by specific places and spatialities, especially drawing attention to Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, therefore considering the spatial dimensions of transcultural encounters as a critical lens for understanding the lived experiences of global connectivity and the continuous unfolding of cultural landscapes.
Date
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Time
2:50~4:20 PM (JST, GMT+9)
Venue
[Online] Zoom
[In Person] Room 107 (Conference room), Bldg. West.1, Wakayama University
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Speaker
Professor Leo Rafolt (The Academy of Arts and Culture, University of Osijek, Croatia)
Leo Rafolt (b. 1979, Zagreb) is a tenured full professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture, University of Osijek, Croatia, where he teaches (trans)cultural and performance studies. He earned his PhD in theatre and performance studies at the University of Zagreb. Rafolt has taught at numerous universities across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and held fellowships in countries including France, Japan, Norway, UK, and the USA. He has published extensively, editing several collections and authoring 15 books in Croatian, English, Polish, and French, most recent one being Monta?stroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics: Never Mind the Score (2022), and M/F x Staging a/nd Archive (2023).
●Moderator：Professor Michiyo Yoshida (Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, Japan)
Registration
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