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Wealth and Status in an Age of Trump: The Cultural Production and Consumption of the Super-Rich 17 May 2017, 2.00-5.30; reception to follow The University of Leicester: Fielding Johnson Building, First Floor Council Suite Room 1 The global economy has been shaped by the rise of multinational corporations and global brands, outsourced labour, and the increased withdrawal of the state. At the same time, protracted economic slowdown and austerity measures, implemented alongside a continued concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, have resulted in a growing popular awareness of global and local inequalities, which have shaped public views on wealth and luxury. As a result, the cultural production and consumption of the super-rich have become areas of interest for researchers across a wide range of fields, including political economics, sociology, cultural studies, management, and creative industries and media studies. The recent rise of Trump as a political, cultural, and media event has opened up new opportunities for interrogating the connections between wealth, luxury, and power. Attention has been given to the aesthetics of Trump as a magnate and politician, in addition to speculation on the changes that will occur on a global scale as a result of a new US government marked by an increased influence of corporations and the super-rich. This, paired with growing inequality, urgently calls for critical reflections on the cultural production and consumption of the super-rich, and the representational politics of wealth. This event will address the politics, aesthetics and ontology of wealth and luxury, via such topics as: * The politics and aesthetics of the production and provision of luxury goods and services * The spatial politics of wealth and the consumption of luxury * The relationship between wealth, status and politics * Mechanisms and implications of the concentration of wealth * The aesthetics of luxury and the politics of vulgarity This half-day event will bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts to discuss the current landscape of luxury, power and the cultural production and consumption of the super-rich. Speakers: Professor John Armitage (University of Southampton) Professor Sarah Hall (University of Nottingham) Professor Jonathan Beaverstock (University of Bristol) Dr Jo Littler (University of London) This is a free event, but spaces are limited. To register click here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wealth-and-status-in-an-age-of-trump-the-cultural-production-and-consumption-of-the-super-rich-tickets-32618663300>. More information on the event can found on our events page<http://www2.le.ac.uk/institutes/cameo/cameo-events>. This event is part of the Cultural Production and Consumption research strand of CAMEo, the University of Leicester's Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies. For more information on CAMEo please visit www.le.ac.uk/cameo<http://www.le.ac.uk/cameo>. Dr Paula Serafini Research Associate CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies University of Leicester www.le.ac.uk/cameo<http://www.le.ac.uk/cameo> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------