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Public Lectures Series 2003/2004
Over 2003 and 2004, the programme ran a series of public lectures at the Royal Society.
Each listing below has a link to an abstract, some to an accompanying paper, and most have mp3 recordings. You can listen to these directly by clicking on 'listen now'. This will open a seperate window with a player application - leave this window open and you can continue browsing while you listen.
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The Error of our Ways: Historians and the Birth of Consumer Society
Food Wars: Food and the Contradictions of Consumer Culture
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Consuming Sex: Consuming Revolutions and Sexual Revolutions, London in the 1950s-60's
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Power of Pla$tic
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Consumer Kids: Competent or Victimized?
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Clothing Desire : Issues in the Histories of Fashion and Consumption
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A Consuming Public
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Sustainability Reinvented
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Consumption and the Good Life?
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Policy Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
Consuming Routines: Rhythms, Ruptures, and the Temporalities of Consumption
International Workshop,
3-5 May 2007 European University Institute, Florence, Italy. click to view the programme
Consumption: Emerging themes, new approaches
A workshop for young researchers,
7-8 December 2006, Birkbeck College, London.
Models of Omnivorous Cultural Consumption
A seminar organised in collaboration with the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester. 29 November 2006.
click to view the flier
Research Conference of the ‘Social status, lifestyle and cultural consumption' project
25-26 November 2006, University of Oxford. For further information about the conference please contact: tw.chan@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Consuming Italy: Consumption in Italy and the Consumption of Italy
A conference at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, 17-18 November 2006.
click to view the programme
Drought: Past, Present and Future
10 November 2006. Workshop at UKWIR, 1 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1.
For further information please
click here for a leaflet (pdf) .
Presentations from this workshop are available from the workshop’s pages on Lancaster University’s site – click here
Annual Cultures of Consumption programme conference 2006
University of Durham, 28-29 September 2006
Food and Globalization II
A follow-up International Workshop, New Hall, Cambridge,8-10 June 2006. Co-organised with Alexander Nuetzenadel (Cologne)
Customer Service
Energywatch Head Office, London, 8 May 2006. A Seminar co-organised with Allan Asher, chief executive, Energywatch
Countering Consumerism: Religious and Secular Responses
Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, 20-22 April 2006.
A conference organised by Kate Soper of the 'Alternative Hedonism' project. Over a hundred participants from the United States and Europe came together to examine secular and religious critiques of ‘consumerist’ culture and the reasons – and rewards – for seeking alternatives to it. The programme, The Guardian article by Jackie Ashley and Kate Soper’s plenary address can be found on the London Met website by clicking here
Citizenship and Consumption: Agency, Norms, Mediations, and Spaces
University of Cambridge, 30 March-1 April 2006. An International Workshop co-organised with Kate Soper, Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University
The two-day interdisciplinary workshop provided a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship. Experts looked at civil society and governance, media consumption and culture, welfare and public services, and ethics and environment. A collection of papers will appear as Citizenship and Consumption with Palgrave Macmillan in 2007
For conference papers please click here
What Consumers Know: Lessons from New Research on Consumer Perceptions of Food, Motivation, and Ethics
Food Standards Agency, London,16 March 2006. Co-organised with the Food Standards Agency in collaboration with ESRC Social Science Week 2006.
The seminar challenged conventional assumptions about the supposed ignorance and motivations of consumers. Researchers presented new findings about how consumers and producers understand food chains, what makes people participate in ‘alternative’ and organic food networks, and about the limits of a consumer identity in ethical consumption
Baby Boomers in Europe: Patterns of Consumption and Lifestyle from Three Countries
The Royal Society, London, 10 March 2006. A Seminar organised in collaboration with ESRC Social Science Week.
Experts from France, Finland, and the United Kingdom presented new research on baby boomers and the dilemmas they face in everyday life
Restless Interiors
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2 November 2005. A one day workshop organised with the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
Annual Cultures of Consumption programme conference 2005
University of Glasgow, 29-30 September 2005
The Politics of Necessity
St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, 9 - 10 September 2005. An Interdisciplinary Workshop, organised with Dr. Bronwen Morgan
Interpretive Approaches To Governance
Birkbeck College, London, 20 July 2005. A workshop organised by Prof. Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley
Choice and Voice
HM Treasury, London, 24 June 2005
Technological Change and the Consumer as Citizen
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 2 June 2005. A one-day workshop. Co-organised with Prof. Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Prof. Fred Steward (Sustainable Technologies Research Programme, Brunel)
Food and Globalisation
An international workshop at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassenaar), 19 - 21 May 2005, organised with Alexander Nuetzenadel (NIAS)
Fashion's World Cities Conference
London College of Fashion and The Museum of London, 29 - 30 April 2005.
For further information please click here.
Also at The Museum of London, a major exhibition, "The London Look: Fashion From Street to Catwalk", 29 October - 8 May 2005
Social Bases of Cultural Consumption
University of Oxford, 18 March 2005. A one-day Workshop organised by Dr Tak-Wing Chan (Oxford). For further information please contact Dr Chan at tw.chan@sociology.oxford.ac.uk
Consumption and Material Culture: Historical and Methodological Issues
University of Hertfordshire, 11 March 2005. A workshop organised by Prof. Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire).
click to view the programme
Consumption, Routines and Rhythms
A Workshop and Conversation organised by Dr Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University and Prof Richard Wilk, Indiana University, 16 December 2004
Chewing Things: Comparative Cultures of Consumption
Workshop at St Anthony's College, Oxford, 3 December 2004
Click to view the programme
Knowing Consumers: Actors, Images, Identities in Modern History
International Conference ZIF (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung/ Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld (Germany), 26 - 28 February 2004
For more information and conference papers, please click here
Consumption, Modernity and the West: Re-thinking Narratives of Consumerism
California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, 16 - 17 April 2004.
For more information, please click here
