From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 3 November 2006 19:07:57 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: 'Consumption Constrained'
Consumption Constrained: Austerity and Rationing in the 20th Century
International Workshop 28 – 29 April 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Tartu, Estonia (deadline for receipt of proposals 20 December
2006)
The twentieth century has witnessed a multitude of attempts in different
national settings to constrain consumption with a view to the fulfilment of
a variety of different economic agendas. Usually this has happened in
response to a perceived state of crisis such as that brought about by the
prosecution of war, or the assumption of power by authoritarian regimes or
by occupying powers. These and other extraordinary circumstances have given
rise to measures intended to conserve supplies, to re-direct resources (to
re-armament or industrialisation, for example), to maintain survival
rations, or to ensure the fair distribution of goods.
The scope and shape of such schemes, their relative success or failure, the
modes of their subversion, and their intended and unintended consequences
might all provide useful starting points for discussion. It is hoped to
explore a range of historical moments and geographical contexts, as well as
different political frameworks and ideologies. These could include the USSR
1920-22 or 1941-45, Europe during World War I or II, South America or the
Middle East.
Emerging and established scholars are invited for a period of energetic
reflection and debate. Proposals are welcomed which address any of the
following or related themes.
• Meanings of austerity, nation-building and foundation legends
• Commonalities and disparities; democracies and dictatorships
• Illicit activities, survival strategies, the 'black market'
• Standards of living and product standards
• State measures and acts of resistance; adaptation
The organising team are Dr. Olaf Mertelsmann (Tartu), Dr. Orit Rozin (Tel
Aviv) and Dr. Lesley Whitworth (Brighton).
Please send proposals of no more than 350 words and a short CV to:
[log in to unmask] by 20 December 2006.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 2 November 2006 14:03:41 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fwd: Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
19 – 23 July, 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom
Whatever the prophecies of ‘virtual’ reality, we inhabit and move through
the ‘real’ world of objects. Though tourism and travel are bound to concepts
of time and space, they are also rooted in the material world – a tangible
world of places, things, edifices, buildings, monuments and ‘stuff’. The
relationships we develop and share with these things varies from the remote
to the intimate, from the transient to the lasting and from the passive to
the passionate. Within the practices of tourism and its use (and non-use) of
the material world, and, though the act of travel, objects are given
meaning, status, and are endowed with symbolism and power. Objects
construct, represent and even define the tourist experience. Our journeys
through the world of objects generate a plethora of emotions – pleasure,
attachment, belonging, angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear – and feed
on-going discourse and narratives. Moreover, through tourism, and our
touristic encounters, the material world itself is challenged and changed.
CALL FOR PAPERS
In this, our fifth annual international research conference, we seek to
explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material culture
– the built environment, infrastructures, consumer and household goods, art,
souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes. As in previous events, the conference
aims to provoke critical dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries and
epistemologies and thus we welcome papers from the following disciplines:
aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history,
cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history,
heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies,
philosophy, political sciences, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial
planning.
Key themes of interest to the conference include:
· Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic/political economies of
tourism objects
· The dialectics of tourism objects and places / spaces
· Structures / infrastructures of international tourism – building /
architecture / design for tourism and tourists
· Aesthetics of objects in a touristic context
· Tourist art and art for tourists
· The performance of material culture in the tourism realm
· Language and the translation of objects in tourism
· The tourist souvenir - commodity fetishism and religious relics
· The tourist object as metaphor and memory
· Ownership, display and interpretation - contested pasts and presents
· Curating for tourism – collecting the worlds of the tourist
· Overcoming the material through the virtual – future realms of
tourist experience
Please submit your 300 word abstract including a title and full contact
details as an electronic file to Professor Mike Robinson
([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible but no later than March 23rd 2007.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 2 November 2006 13:59:53 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fwd: PhD Studentships
Possibly of interest to design history graduates.
PhD Studentships in Tourism and Cultural Change
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University,
UK, is offering PhD studentships as part of the University’s programme of
recruiting 100 PhD students as part of its centenary celebration of
occupying its Headingley Campus.
We would welcome applications/proposals from students who have completed a
Masters course in an appropriate discipline (anthropology, cultural studies,
ethnology, geography, sociology, history etc.) and who have interests in one
or more of the research themes of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.
Each studentship will have a bursary of £12,300 per annum, together with
payment of fees of £3120 per annum, and will be for a period of three years
subject to satisfactory progress. The fees fully cover candidates with full
citizenship within any of the European Union countries. For applicants
outside of the EU, additional fees of £4,880 per annum will need to be met
by the candidate or other sponsoring institution. The closing date for
applications is Friday 27th October 2006.
Staff of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change have a wide range of
research interests. These include:
Heritage tourism – tangible and intangible heritage;
Tourism and cultural landscapes;
Symbolic cultural economies and tourism;
Tourism aesthetics;
Mobilisation of material cultures in tourism;
Cultural tourism development;
Tourist behaviours, encounters, exchanges and contact zones; Tourist/tourism
narratives;
Tourism and performance - ritual, festivals/festivity, liminality and play;
Tourism, the media and popular culture;
Tourism and visual culture – photography, film etc.;
Ethics of tourism – global mobilities, exclusion, development politics etc.
For more information regarding the procedure for applications/proposals –
including downloadable application forms please visit:
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/research/100_phd_students.htm
Contact:
Professor Mike Robinson
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts & Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Old School Board
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 3ED
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541
fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544
www.tourism-culture.com
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From: Maisoon Rehani <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 30 October 2006 17:07:51 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars
Conference at PMC on the 24th November 06
See attached flyer re Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of
the Tsars Conference at Paul Mellon Centre on the 24th November06
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From: "Ugolini, Laura" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 30 October 2006 17:03:30 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Conference cfp: 'Business Links'
Reminder:
Call for Papers
2007 ABH and CHORD Conference
BUSINESS LINKS:
Trade, Distribution and Networks
A conference to be held on 29 and 30 June 2007 at the University of
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
The Association of Business Historians (ABH) and the Centre for the History
of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a joint
conference to explore the history of trade, distribution, business networks
and retailing. All historical periods, geographical areas and methodological
approaches are welcome. Themes of interest include, but are not limited, to:
· International, national, regional and local trade
· Business networks
· 'Middlemen' and wholesalers
· The internet and on-line commerce
· Transport, river and maritime trade
· Financial and stock markets
· Trade, consumers and consumption
· Knowledge transfer
· Commercial innovation and entrepreneurship
· The retail trade and retail employment
· Trade, the state and regulation
· Economic migrants and migration
· War, trade and the military
Organisers also welcome papers on any topics related to business history,
even where they do not focus on the conference theme.
Proposals are welcome either for individual papers or sessions (generally
one-and-half hours). Please send one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 key
words, brief CV and if proposing a session, a cover letter with title and
one-paragraph session description (if possible via e-mail), to the address
below by 31 January 2007.
For more information, please contact: Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS,
University of Wolverhampton, Room MC233, MC Building, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB.
Tel.: (044) 01902 321890. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html
ABH web-pages: http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/abh/
Conference web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2007conf.html
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From: "Chris L Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 30 October 2006 09:28:30 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Architecture in the Space of Flows
All,
The below conference/call for papers may be of interest to a few colleagues-
apologies for cross posting.
Architecture in the Space of Flows: buildings - spaces - cultures
21 - 24 June 2007
Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK.
Call for papers:
http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/flows/
Flows of energy, libido, capital, water and information make our lives
possible. The buildings and spaces that support our activities inflect the
flows; we tap into them, surf them, block them at our peril, or we may be
excluded from them. Flows are global, but have local effects. Buildings are
local, but their embodied energies flow from great distances, and their
embodiments can cause local or distant turbulences. Everything is moving,
intensifying, dispersing; growing, decaying, proliferating, networking,
sedimenting, eroding.
Understanding ourselves, our buildings, our cities as modulators of flows
represents a fundamental shift in sensibility away from the perfect
Euclidian geometries of Vitruvian man, to the productive consumer, the
desiring subject. Cultures and spaces are fluid and relational, and
designers are searching for ways to give expression to these telluric
undercurrents that are shaping and re-shaping our worlds. New sensibilities
are taking shape, and it is the aim of this conference to explore and gain
understanding of emergent possibilities.
The conference, or confluence, will be transdisciplinary, bringing together
people who are developing ways of thinking about places and our responses to
them, making use of ideas of flux.
Keynote Speakers:
Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union
Emily Apter, New York University
Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University
Erin Manning, Sense Lab, Concordia University (to be confirmed) Brian
Massumi, Université de Montréal (to be confirmed)
Convenors:
Andrew Ballantyne, Jean Hillier, Sally Jane Norman and Chris L. Smith
Hosted by:
Tectonic Cultures Research Group, School of Architecture, Planning &
Landscape and Culture Lab
Contact:
Karen Ritchie
Tectonic Cultures Research Group
SAPL
Claremont Tower
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
e-mail [log in to unmask]
http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/flows/
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