Seminars in the Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage

The Xenia Series

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THE XENIA SERIES 
 
THE XENIA SEMINAR SERIES HAS BEEN NURTURING OPEN-ACCESS CONVERSATIONS SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2020. IT WAS INITIALLY SET UP BECAUSE OF A GLOBAL COVID-19 LOCKDOWN BUT HAS RETAINED AN ONLINE OR HYBRID MODE IN RECOGNITION OF OTHER OBSTACLES TO INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT. 
 
XENIA (GREEK: VARIOUS SENSES ILLUMINATING HOSPITALITY) CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF MONTHLY PRESENTATIONS (TEXTUAL, MUSICAL, ARTISTIC) ON THE OVERLAPPING TOPICS OF HOSPITALITY, HOSTILITY, SHARED SACRED PLACES, IDENTITY, HOME (INCLUDING LOSS OF HOME, HOMEMAKING, HOMECOMING, HOMELAND), EXCLUSION AND SEPARATION, MOVEMENT – INCLUDING TOURISM, PILGRIMAGE, JOURNEYS OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS – MEMORY AND MEMORIALISATION, DISLOCATION/FRAGMENTATION, CULTURAL HERITAGE, FESTIVALS/RITUALS OF BELONGING, AS WELL AS SPATIAL/TEMPORAL SOLIDARITIES AND FORMS OF RESISTANCE RELATING TO CLASS, GENDER AND SEXUALITY AND RACIAL INEQUALITIES.  

 
THE XENIA SERIES IS ORGANISED BY TOM SELWYN, GEOFF DEVITO, SAFET HADŽIMUHAMEDOVIĆ, AND A NETWORK OF COLLEAGUES FROM THE UNIVERSITIES OF SOAS, CAMBRIDGE, AND BETHLEHEM. XENIA IS LINKED TO THE BERGHAHN BOOK SERIES ARTICULATING JOURNEYS: FESTIVALS, MEMORIALS, AND HOMECOMINGS.