Communicating National and European Trends in Planning, Agriculture and Population Development
- 30/07 2006 - 07/08 2006 -
Please register via email to
josef.schmied@phil.tu-chemnitz.de
Plans so far for the bus trip via Calais/Dover:
London (Docklands, Millennium Village, East London, Thames) Oxford (town & gown), Cotswolds (image of rural England, gentrification) Bath (World Heritage, urban tourism), Bristol (water front development, urban regeneration), Cribb's Causeway (retailing) Glastonbury, Taunton, Dartmoor (National Parks) Plymouth (planning, retail regeneration, market hall, regional development) South Coast (tourism) und Poundbury (urban village) Brighton (seaside development, dirty weekend and binge drinking), Rye, Hastings (1066 and all that).
Costs will depend on subsidies we receive, which can only be applied for when we have a list of provisional participants (below € 400!!).
Dates
April 11
June 17
August 30
South England topics for student papers:
1. A political geography of the United Kingdom
2. British policy under Tony Blair (Karsten Mahlberg)
3. Tourism in Britain and the heritage industry
4. Ethnic minorities in Britain (Nab Raj Roshyara)
5. The countryside – image and reality
6. National Parks in the United Kingdom
7. Landscapes and gardens – the cultural environment
8. History of settlement, place names and cultural heritage
9. Food: typically British, typically Cornish (Bertine Stelzer)
10. Marketing Brighton: from the Georges to the Gay and Binge Drinking Capital (Torsten Menzel)
11. The education and health system in Britain
12. Dialects in Southern England (Kristiane Dürich)
13. London English: Cockney and all that (Claudia Kamke)
14. "Brick Lane", a novel and an immigrant tradition (Katrin Uhlig)
15. A literary tour of Wessex following Thomas Hardy
16. A literary tour of Jane Austin's England: Bath and the countryside
