> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> 'Figuring Addictions/Rethinking Consumption,'
> International, Interdisciplinary Conference
> 4 -5 April 2002
> Institute for Cultural Research
> Lancaster University, UK
>
> Plenary speakers;
> Rachel Bowlby, Professor of English at the University of York, UK (to be
> confirmed)
> Robin Room, Professor of Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm
> University, SW
> Mark Seltzer, Professor of English, Cornell University, USA
>
> The Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University announces an
> international, interdisciplinary conference which will consider the
> relationships between consumption and (broadly defined) notions of addiction,
> compulsion and habit. We encourage participants to critically consider the
> ways
> in which race, class, sexuality and gender figure in the following themes ...
>
> histories of consumption and compulsion
> consuming compulsions (eg monomania, inebriety, opium-eating, hysteria,
> kleptomania); medicine and patent medicine; disease models of addiction;
> advertising and visual culture; trade and colonialism; temperance movements
> and
> sobriety; sites of consumption (eg departments stores, museums, public
> houses,
> 'shooting galleries'); alcohol and alcoholism
>
> drug cultures and consumer cultures
> commodity fetishism; possession and exchange; credit and debt; property
> rights
> and patents; branding; medicines and 'drugs'; marketing; 'shopaholism';
> habits
> and patterns; cultures and sub-cultures; collections and exhibitions; food
> and
> consumption (eg bulimia and anorexia); anti-consumerist movements; the 'drug
> war'; geo-economic networks; smuggling; markets and 'black markets';
> neo-colonialism
>
> addiction and representation
> literature and metaphor; technologies of writing; advertisements; film and
> documentary; autobiography and biography; time and narrative; photography;
> visualising practices; art and artists; languages of science
>
> pleasure and desire
> prohibition and pleasure; habit, freedom and regulation; bodies and fears;
> technology and bodies; identities and identification; desire and compulsion
>
> compulsion and freedom
> social policy and regulation; welfare and rights; health campaigns; harm and
> risk assessment; self-help and recovery programmes
>
>
> Please submit abstracts in electronic form by 15 December 2001 to June Rye
> ([log in to unmask]). Abstracts should be no more than 350 words long. In
> addition, please include your name, institutional affiliation, contact
> address,
> email, research interests, and relevant publications. We will accept
> individual
> papers and also submissions of panels of 3 themed papers.
>
> For information about the Institute for Cultural Research, please visit our
> website;
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/cultres/
>
> Institute for Cultural Research
> Lancaster University
> Cartmel College
> Lancaster LA1 4YL
> Tel. 01524 592497
> Fax. 01524 594273
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