Biography
Emily Mannheimer is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Communication and Culture. She is part of the Erasmus Initiative ‘Vital Cities and Citizens’ which is concerned with making cities more healthy and inclusive places. Emily's sub-project, 'Imagining the Divided City', investigates the role of tourism as a means for (re)defining heritage and identity in the post-conflict context of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The project is supervised by prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders and prof. dr. Maria Grever and dr. Amanda Brandellero.
Emily obtained her BA in International Development Studies at Portland State University with a Minor in Arabic Language. She also received an MSc in Cultural Anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Lecturer | Department of Arts and Culture Studies
- mannheimer@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Emily Mannheimer (2022) - Re-imagining a new Northern Ireland: Tourism and social transition after conflict
- Emily Mannheimer, Stijn Reijnders & Amanda Brandellero (2022) - Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (5), 1-16 - doi: 10.1177/13678779221081148 - [link]
- Emily Mannheimer (2020) - Navigating Post-Conflict Timespaces: Game of Thrones Tourism and the "New Northern Ireland" (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2020) - Telling the Troubles: Authorizing conflict heritage through guided tours (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2019) - Game of Thrones Tourism and the Imaginative Heritage of the "New Belfast" (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2019) - Doing Dark Tourism Research in Belfast (And Beyond) (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2019) - Authorizing from below: Negotiating conflict-heritage through tourism in Belfast (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2018) - Tourism as a tool for peace-building: A case for Northern Ireland (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Emily Mannheimer (2018) - Spatializing Troubles tourism narratives in Belfast (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
