The Crown Revisited: Are Monarchies a Relic of the Past or the Wave of the Future?

february, 2024

06feb2:30 pm3:50 pmThe Crown Revisited: Are Monarchies a Relic of the Past or the Wave of the Future?

Time

(Tuesday) 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm

Location

USF Student Center

200 6th Ave S

Event Details

Once seemingly doomed by more modern forms of government, monarchies are back in the news. Making headlines in Thailand, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and, of course, the UK. Does The Crown have a future?

Speakers for this event

  • Alan Fyall

    Alan Fyall

    Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management

    Dr. Alan Fyall is Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management and is a member of UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research. Dr. Fyall is also a Fellow, International Academy for the Study of Tourism, elected Second-Vice-President, Board Member of TravelAbility, the Blue Community Consortium and former Board Member of the Bournemouth Tourism Management Board (DMO) and Solent Synergy Limited. His current research interests relate to tourism sustainability and resilience with a specific focus on the impacts of tourism on resident communities of tourist destinations. Dr. Fyall has made a sustained impact on these fields. Key experiences include: Design and delivery of numerous tourism destination development and management research projects for clients in the UK, European Union, Africa, the Caribbean, USA, and Southeast Asia. Clients include the ESRC (UK), Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Malaysian Government, the Supreme Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (Saudi Arabia), World Travel & Tourism Council and Ocean Panel; Contributing co-lead author to the recently published Opportunities for Transforming Coastal and Marine Tourism: Towards Sustainability, Regeneration and Resilience, commissioned by the Ocean Panel; Co-Editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management (Impact Factor of 8.4 and CiteScore of 13.4) and sits on the editorial boards of many leading journals; Research contributions are well cited: h-index of 51, i10-index of 109 and 20,390 total citations (Google Scholar, October 14, 2023); Supervision of over 26 Ph.D. students through to completion and external examination of over 40 Ph.D. dissertations in the UK, India, France, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

    Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management

  • Donald Morrison

    Donald Morrison

    Moderator

    Donald Morrison is an author, journalist, and educator. In a long career at TIME magazine, he served as editor of its World section in New York, its Asian edition in Hong Kong, and its European edition in London. He has taught at New York University's London Center, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Institut d'etudes politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Mr. Morrison is the author, co-author or editor of books on subjects as diverse as Chinese democracy, the Obama presidency and photojournalism. His "The Death of French Culture," a 2009 French best-seller, was published in the U.S. and the U.K. in 2010. He is currently Europe Editor of the London-based magazine PORT, as well as a columnist and advisory board member at The Berkshire Eagle. His weekly podcast commentary is featured on NPR's Robin Hood Radio, Podcasts.com and other news outlets. He has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Le Point, The New Republic, Smithsonian, and Quartz. Mr. Morrison holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics. He is married to Ann Morrison, former Executive Editor of Fortune magazine and Editor of Asiaweek.

    Moderator

  • Taoufik Djebali

    Taoufik Djebali

    Taoufik Djebali was born and raised in Tunisia, a former French possession in North Africa, known for its cohesion and religious tolerance. In the 1980s, like many North African students, he decided to move to Paris to pursue higher education after earning a degree in English. In Paris, he got a degree in sociology and a Ph.D. in American studies on race and public policy. Djebali then started a career in teaching at the University of Caen in the northwest of France. Since then, he has been dividing his time between the port city of Caen, Paris, and Tunisia where he teaches as a Visiting Professor. He has published articles on racial, ethnic and immigrant issues in the United States and Tunisia.

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