CHORD Workshop and Call for Papers

Retailing History: Texts and Images

 29 April 2009

CHORD invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the nature of the texts and images associated with retailing and retailers, including commercial images, artistic and literary representations, photographs and postcards, the printed word and the visual arts. Proposals are invited from any disciplinary perspective and focusing on any historical period. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*       Photography and visual representations
*       Slogans, catch-phrases and branding
*       Retailing and the visual arts
*       Advertising and promotional material
*       Literary, biographical and autobiographical representations
*       Retailing, nostalgia and the heritage industry
*       Print and press representations, self-presentation and advice

The workshop will be held at: the University of Wolverhampton, UK

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) preferably by e-mail, to the address below by 6 February 2009.

Fee: £ 14. For further information, please contact Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail:  [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Workshop web-page: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/texts.html

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

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