Lancaster University's
> Material Culture and Consumption Group
> Seminars 2004/05
>
> All seminars take place in County South D26, 4.15 - 5.30pm.
> All welcome.
>
> Tuesday 12th October
> (please note this seminar is on Tuesday rather than the normal
> Wednesday)
> Gavin Jack and Campbell Jones,
> Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy,
> University of Leicester
> 'Sucking, bleeding, breaking: on the dialectics of vampirism, capital
> and time'.
>
> Wednesday 17th November
> Justine Lloyd
> ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney
> 'Home alone: selling new domestic spaces'
>
> Wednesday 1st December
> Ruth McElroy, Liverpool John Moores University
> 'Labouring at leisure: aspects of lifestyle and the rise of home
> improvement'
>
> Wednesday 19th January
> James Howard, Independent Studies
> '"Being in the know": consuming the news'
>
> Wednesday 16th February
> Yoke-Sum Wong, Sociology dept
> (title to be announced)
>
> Wednesday 9th March
> Anne Cronin and Celia Roberts, Sociology dept
> 'Advertising Viagra and the (re)production of gender'
>
> Wednesday 16th March
> Nick Prior, Edinburgh University
> 'Boxes of speed: museums and cities'
>
> June 2005
> Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College, New York
> (Date and title to be announced)
>
> For more information, contact Anne Cronin ([log in to unmask])
>
>
>
> Dr Anne Cronin
> Sociology Department
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster, LA1 4YD, UK
> Tel. (01524) 593594
> [log in to unmask]
> <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/staff/cronin/cronin.htm>
>
|