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CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
COUNTERING CONSUMERISM:
RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR RESPONSES
20 - 22 APRIL 2006
VENUE: GRADUATE CENTRE,
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
An interdisciplinary conference linking the themes of
'Spirituality' and 'Consumerism' is being organised as
the major culminating event of an ESRC/AHRB Cultures
of Consumption Phase Two research project on
'Alternative Hedonism and the Theory and Politics of
Consumption'.
The project is being undertaken by Professor Kate
Soper and Dr. Lyn Thomas within the Institute for the
Study of European Transformations (ISET) at London
Metropolitan University.
The conference will be of interest to academics in the
following fields: anthropology, philosophy, geography,
history, religious studies, politics, media and
cultural studies, sociology of consumption and/or
religion, and/or secularity. It should also interest
NGOs, charities, political parties and pressure groups
concerned with consumption, sustainability and
environmental issues; and religious and secular groups
concerned with issues of consumption and
self-realisation.
Jackie Ashley of The Guardian, Madeleine Bunting,
author of Willing Slaves, Colin Campbell, Professor of
Sociology, York University and Professor Ziauddin
Sardar, Editor of Futures will speak at the
conference, and we are in discussion with a number of
other invited plenary speakers.
We shall also consider suitable responses to this call
as potential plenary speakers.
Details +44 (0)207 133 2927
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