With apologies if you have already received this e-mail: a reminder that the call for papers dead-line is friday 4 May 2012.
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2012 CHORD Conference and Call for Papers

'Retailing and Distribution History'

5 and 6 September 2012

University of Wolverhampton, UK

Conference web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2012conf.html

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites conference proposals that explore retailing and / or distribution from a  historical perspective. Papers focusing on all historical periods or geographical areas and based on any methodological and disciplinary perspective are welcome. Themes of interest include - but are NOT limited to:

* Commercial cultures; retailing and distribution in popular culture and the media

* Innovation and change / stagnation and failure

* Credit, finance and the economics of retailing and distribution

* Large-scale retailing -super, hyper, monster...

* Crime and illegal practices

* Politics, the state and individual enterprise; ethics and fairness

* Markets, informal exchanges, penny capitalism

* Retailing and distribution in hard times

* Advertising, marketing and sales strategies

* Retailing and distribution work, from 'management' to the shop floor

* Distribution networks, business links

PROPOSALS are invited both for individual papers and for sessions. TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, please send title, one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 key words and if proposing a session, a cover letter with title and one-paragraph session description, to:

Laura Ugolini at [log in to unmask] by friday 4 May 2012

CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

For more information, please contact Dr Laura Ugolini. E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Dr Laura Ugolini
Reader in History

Joint editor, Textile History

School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
MC Building
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
WV1 1LY
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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