Senior tourism

MULTI- AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

MULTI- AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKERS: Danilo Cavapozzi, Enrico Capiozzo, Lisa Danese, Simone Francescato, Flavio Gregori, Roberta Maierhofer, Valeria Minghetti, Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Mirko Petrić, Anna Scacchi, Cinzia Schiavini, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Francesca Zantomio

ORGANIZERS: Daniela Ciani Forza e Simone Francescato

CONTACTS: dciani@unive.it simone.francescato@unive.it

International Conference Friday, 28 February 2014 Ca’ Foscari, Aula Baratto Dorsoduro 3246 Venezia Image: film still from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

10.00 am

MULTI- AND INTERDISCIPLINARY 28 February 2014 PERSPECTIVES Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari

10.00

Welcome by the Authorities

10.30

Roberta Maierhofer

14.30

An Unlikely Old Tourist in M. Thomsen’s The Saddest Pleasure

CULTURE/SOCIOLOGY

11.00

15.00

Mirko Petrić & Inga Tomić-Koludrović

Break

11.45

Danilo Cavapozzi & Francesca Zantomio

15.30

Break

15.45

Flavio Gregori

(Ca’ Foscari University)

12.15

Valeria Minghetti

Have a Lovely Pythonesque Holiday (but Never Mention the War): British Tourism in Fawlty Towers 16.15

(CISET)

12.45

Lunch break

14.00

Maricel Oró-Piqueras (University of Lleida) LITERATURE

Undermining Retirement as Leisure Time in D. Moggach’s These Foolish Things

Cinzia Schiavini

(University of Milan) VISUAL STUDIES

Cruising to be Young Again: The Mystification of Senior Tourism in Love Boat

ECONOMICS

Senior Tourism and Accessibility: Evolving Trends and Key Issues

(Ca’ Foscari University) VISUAL STUDIES

ECONOMICS

Explaining Tourism in Older Age: The Role of Disability and Financial Resources Across the Economic Crisis

(University of Padua) Never Too Late for Remembering: Cruising the Past in P. Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow

CULTURE/SOCIOLOGY

11.30

Anna Scacchi LITERATURE

(University of Zadar)

Tourism and Aging: A Sociological Perspective

(Ca’ Foscari University) LITERATURE

(University of Graz, Founder E.N.A.S.) (Un)Comfortably Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: Life as Travel

Simone Francescato

16.45

Break

17.00

Enrico Capiozzo & Lisa Danese (Veasyt)

DISABILITY STUDIES

VEASYT Network: A Proposal for a Collaborative On-line Platform for Accessible and Senior Tourism