CALL FOR PAPERS
'Figuring Addictions/Rethinking Consumption,'
International, Interdisciplinary Conference
4-5 April 2002
Institute for Cultural Research
Lancaster University, UK
Confirmed plenary speakers;
Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK
Robin Room, Professor of Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm
University, SW
Mark Seltzer, Evan Frankel Professor of Literature, University of California at
Los Angeles
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/
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