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ESRC RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES ON Identities and Consumption

Seminar Three
The new consumers: Childhood and youth
Monday September 11th 2006
12.30 to 5.30pm

The Open University, Michael Young Lecture Theatre

Programme

12.15 – 1.15 Lunch and refreshments

1.15 – 1.30 Introductions and welcome (in Michael Young Lecture Theatre)

1.30 – 2.15 ‘The Meaning of Style? Style reflexivity in contemporary youth
culture’ Associate Professor Dannie Kjeldgaard, University of Southern Denmark

2.15 – 3.00 ‘Boys, bevvies and bacon sarnies: Culinary images for thinking
young men’ Paul Hewer & Douglas Brownlie, Strathclyde University &
University of Stirling

3.00 – 3.15 Tea/coffee (in Foyer of 8 West)

3.15 – 4.00 ‘Beckham: Hero, villain or a bit of both? The children's
viewpoint’ Patricia Gaya Wicks, University of Exeter

4.00 – 4.45 ‘Childhood transitions, consumption and the gender agenda’
Stephanie O’Donohoe, The University of Edinburgh

4.45 – 5.00 Closing remarks - Christine Griffin, University of Bath