Dear colleagues,
please find below the program of the international conference "VISUALIZING CONSUMER CULTURE,COMMODIFYING VISUAL CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD" co-organized by Paris Sorbonne University and Sorbonne Nouvelle University on October 21 & 22, 2016.
If you would like to attend, please fill the attached registration form and send it before october 1rst to: [log in to unmask]
Clémentine Tholas Disset (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) & Claire Dutriaux (Paris Sorbonne)
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VISUALIZING CONSUMER CULTURE,COMMODIFYING VISUAL CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD
OCTOBER 21, 2016, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE
OCTOBER 22, 2016, UNIVERSITE SORBONNE NOUVELLE
Organised by HISTOIRE ET DYNAMIQUE DES ESPACES ANGLOPHONES (HDEA-CSTI, EA4086), Université Paris-Sorbonne
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD (CREW, EA4389), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
With the Participation of Conseil scientifique de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Commission de la recherche & SRIE de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Scientific committee:Claire Dutriaux (Paris-Sorbonne), Clémentine Tholas-Disset (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Laurent Châtel (Paris-Sorbonne), Catherine Purcell (Paris-Sorbonne), Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Donna Kesselman (UPEC), Jean Kempf (Lyon II), Jennifer Gauthier (Randolph College).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
MAISON DE LA RECHERCHE, 28 RUE SERPENTE, 75006 PARIS
9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION / WELCOME ADDRESS
9:30-11:00 “VISUALIZING FOOD” / Chair: Hélène Le-Dantec – Lowry
• Irina MIHALACHE (University of Toronto), “The Chef’s Apron as Visual Culture: Curating Consumer Experience in Restaurants’ Kitchens”
• Brigitte PEZANT (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), “A Perceptual Approach to Marks & Spencer’s Food Commercials”
• Eléonore OBIS (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “Commodifying Visual Culture in the Wine Business: the Case of the USA”
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:30 “ICONOGRAPHIES OF CAPITALISM” / Chair : Donna Kesselman
• Thibaut CLÉMENT (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “ʻThey all trust Mickey Mouseʼ: Consuming and Showcasing Capitalism in Disney Theme Parks”
•Yvonne-Marie ROGEZ (Université Panthéon-Assas), “Consumerism Challenged: the Shopping Cart in Contemporary North-American Art, Film and Iconography”
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Geneviève COHEN-CHEMINET (Université Paris-Sorbonne
“AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISRUPTIVE OBJECTS: THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE COMMONPLACE INTO ARTIFIED OBJECTS”.
2 :30-4:00 “THE SPECTACLE OF SOPHISTICATION: LUXURY AND FASHION” / Chair: Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet
• Stefania MASÈ (Macerata University), “The Process of Artification for Luxury Brands Searching for a New Balance between Ethics and Aesthetics”
• Guillaume SIROIS (McGill University), “A Media of a Special Kind: Spectacular Exhibition Venues and the Development of a Luxury Brand”
• Alice MORIN(Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), “Smells Like Seduction: Staging Perfumes in Fashion Magazines, 1970s-1980s”
4:00-4 :30 COFFEE BREAK
4:30-6:00 “HISTORY OF COMMODIFICATION” / chair: Clémentine Tholas-Disset
• Emmanuel FALGUIÈRES (Université Paris-Diderot), “The Canvasser, the County Atlas and the Farmer: Commodifying the Image of the Land in the Midwest (1860-1920).ˮ
• Alecia SIMMONDS (University of Technology Sydney), “Possessive Love: The Legal Life of Romantic Objects in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.”
• Anne LESME (Université Aix-Marseille), “The Historical Characters of American Girls Dolls: Spectacle and Visual Culture as the Agents of Consumerism”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2016
MAISON DE LA RECHERCHE, 4 RUE DES IRLANDAIS, 75005 PARIS
9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Sarah BANET-WEISER (Director of the School of Communication at USC Annenberg)
“THE VISION OF EMPOWERMENT”
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 “BODIES: GENDERED CONSUMPTION” / Chair: Karen Randell
• Stephanie MERCIER (Université de Poitiers), “Visualising Bodies as Commodities on the Shakespearean Stage”
• Amy D. WELLS (Université de Caen), “White Dress, Blue Liquid: The Visual Marketing of Feminine Hygiene Products”
• Marianne KAC-VERGNE (University of Picardie-Jules Verne), “Gendered Consumerism in Pretty Woman”
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:30 “COMMODIFYING IDENTITY” / Chair: Laurent Chatel
• Keith CORSON (Rhodes College), “Commodifying Resistance: Basketball, Hip-Hop, and the Selling of Black Youth Culture”
• Emilie CHEYROUX (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), “Latinos Transnational Visual Culture: Tension between Consuming and Integrating”
• Karine CHAMBEFORT (Université Paris Est Créteil), “Martin Parr’s Signs of the Times: a Portrait of the Nation’s Tastes: Antidote Pictures to Consumerism?”
• Martine LAMBERT-CHARBONNIER (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “From Commodity Fetishes to Symbols: Danny Boyle’s Simulations of British Culture in the London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony”
3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:45-4:45 “DIGITAL CAPITALISM” / Chair: Divina Frau-Meigs
• Olivier FRAYSSE (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “Rereading Debord”
• Dawn WOOLLEY (Royal College of Art), “Hysterical Selfies and the Commercial Construction of Identity on Social Networking Sites”
4:45-5:00 CLOSING REMARKS
Registration fees: 20 euros
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