Material Cultural and Consumption Group, Lancaster University
'Consuming the City' symposium
Thursday 27th May 2004
Conference room 3, Conference Centre (Lonsdale College), Lancaster University, UK
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction
10.15-10.45 Malcolm Miles (City Cultures Research Unit, University of Plymouth)
'Housing Change: from Hassan Fathy to the Barefoot College.'
10.45-11.15 Beatriz Jaguaribe (School of Communications, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
'The shock of the real: the aesthetics of realism and the urban experience'.
11.15-11.30 discussion
11.30-11.45 coffee
11.45-12.15 Justin O'Connor (Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University)
'Manchester's Northern Quarter: creative industries and urban regeneration'
12.15-12.45 Adrian Mackenzie (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University)
'From cafe to Parkbench: wi-fi and technological overflows in the city'
12.45-1.00 discussion
1.00-2.00 lunch
2.00-2.30 Nick Gebhardt (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University)
'Mass events, mass objects: the music of urban America'
2.30-3.00 Bella Dicks (Sociology dept, University of Cardiff)
'On interpretation: technologies of transformation in urban display'.
3.00-3.15 discussion
3.15-3.30 tea
3.30-5.00 Roundtable discussion
5.00 close
Registration details
Symposium organisers: Dr Anne Cronin & Prof Kevin Hetherington
The number of places at the symposium is limited, so please book in good time. Registration and lunch are free for postgraduate students; staff registration fee is £20 (includes buffet lunch and tea/coffee). Details of accommodation can be provided upon request.
Please email/print out this form and send it to:
Dr Anne Cronin, Sociology dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL.
Please make cheques payable to 'Lancaster University'. (Lancaster participants may pay by internal transfer - please send your details).
REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
University/affiliation:
Staff/student (please delete as applicable)
Fee enclosed if applicable:
Postal address:
Email address:
<<cityconfprog.doc>>
For further information, contact Anne Cronin: [log in to unmask]
Material Culture and Consumption Group website:
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/materialculture.htm
Sociology dept website:
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/
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