TEAAS 2023 is the only academic event that brings together academic scholarship on themed experiences and attractions in an exciting one-day symposium featuring presentations from a variety of academic fields. This year’s Symposium theme, “The Multiverse of Theming: Understanding Themed Attractions Across Dimensions,” promotes and reflects the multiple perspectives, disciplines, and worlds through which our understandings of theming and attractions experience is situated.
This year’s Symposium will feature a full program of original academic research in themed experience and attractions, a poster-paper networking lunch, keynote speakers, and morning and afternoon coffee. The Symposium will be held on the last day of the IAAPA Expo on Friday, November 17th, 2023, 9AM-5PM at the Orange County Convention Center (Room TBA) in Orlando, Florida.
The event is presented by the Themed Experience and Attractions Academic Society with generous partner level support from IAAPA, as well as support from the School of Business at Farmingdale State College (SUNY), and ThemedAttraction.com.
Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
Bethanee Bemis is a museum specialist with the Division of Political and Military History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She is curator for the ongoing exhibit Mirror, Mirror for Us All: Disney Theme Parks and the American Experience (through March 2024), and the author of the recently published Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives: Mirror, Mirror, for Us All (Routledge, 2023). She has written and spoken extensively about Disney’s influence on the American experience and American identity.
More speakers to be announced…
Academic Presentations:
The theme of this year’s Symposium is “The Multiverse of Theming: Understanding Themed Attractions Across Dimensions,” and will feature presentations and posters on the latest academic research on themed experience and attractions ranging over a wide array of topics, including attractions design and engineering, themed narrative and storytelling, management and operations, guest experience, and more.
Registration is open now open at the Symposium’s Eventbrite page. Early bird Symposium ticket price is $60. All tickets will include the full day of presentations, keynote speakers, a poster-paper networking lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee. Tickets to the IAAPA Expo are not required to attend the TEAAS 2023.
For more information, contact the Themed Experience and Attractions Academic Society at [email protected] or visit teaacademicsociety.org for more detailed information regarding the Symposium and Academic Society. For information about submitting an abstract for the symposium, go to: http://teaacademicsociety.org/events-symposium/.
