with apologies for cross-posting - I hope the announcement below will be of interest to some euro-business-history list members
The 2013 CHORD Conference
on: 'Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives'
will take place at the Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds
on 5 September 2013
The programme, together with abstracts, registration forms and further information about the venue, can be found at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2013conf.htm
The programme includes:
Clare Backhouse, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, ‘Broadside ballads, Dress and the Senses in Seventeenth-Century England’
Lucy A. Bailey, University of Northampton, UK, ‘An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop’
Ben Highmore, Sussex University, UK, ‘Provençal Herbs and the Chicken Brick: Sensual Orchestration at the first Habitat Store’
Ai Hisano, University of Delaware, US, ‘The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States’
Serena Dyer, University of Warwick, UK, ‘”Discomposing the Goods”: Sensory Shopping and the Consumption of Clothing, 1750-1850’
Angela Loxham, Lancaster University, UK, ‘Clothing, Touch and Liberal Governance’
Danielle Sprecher, University of Leeds and Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK, ‘How Does It Handle? The Place of Cloth in the Marketing and Selling of Menswear in Britain, c.1945-1980’
Stephanie Rains, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, ‘Touch Wood: Women, Shopping and the Politics of Sitting Down’
Amber Martin, University of Nottingham, UK, ‘Sex Shops and the Senses: The Sensory Nature of Sex Product Consumption’
Tracy Smith, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, 'Pleasure, Identity and the Absence of Touch: The Conflicting Characteristics of the Online and Physical Retail Environments'
Katy Mullin, University of Leeds, UK, ‘Victorian Shop-girls, Sexuality and the Senses’
The fee is £26.
For further information and to register, please see the web-pages: home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2013conf.htm
Or contact Karin Dannehl at [log in to unmask] or Laura Ugolini at: [log in to unmask]
News about CHORD events can now also be found here: http://retailhistory.wordpress.com/about/
CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html
Karin Dannehl and Laura Ugolini
School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
MC Building
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
WV1 1LY
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