Contrasting Theories of Consumption: a Workshop

Thursday 7^th November

Arrival, Tea & Coffee

Welcome, Introduction to Conference

Stan Metcalfe (University of Manchester, UK)
Dale Southerton & Alan Warde (University of Manchester, UK)

Session 1

Staffan Hultén & Anna Nyberg (Stockholm School of Economics)
'The consumer in marketing research'

Margaret Hogg & Emma Banister (UMIST, UK)
'The Negative Self and the Refusal of Tastes in Consumer Behaviour'

Lunch

Session 2

Paul De Gay (Open University, UK)
'Self-Service: shopping, consumption and personhood'

Bonnie Erickson (University of Toronto, Canada)
'Network Impacts on Politics as Delegated Consumption' or
'Who You Know and How You Want Government to Spend Your Money'

Tea & Coffee

Session 3

Celia Lury (Goldsmiths College, UK)
'The brand as a complex object and relations in time with consumers'

Douglas Holt (Harvard Business School, USA)
'Black Looks for Sale: Branding Race in the USA'

Conference Dinner at local restaurant

Friday 8^th November

Tea & Coffee

Session 4

Don Slater (London School of Economics, UK)
"Modernity Under Construction: Comparative Ethnographies of Internet"

Kaj Ilmonen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
"Sicuality and commitment to goods"

Lunch

Session 5

Irene Cieraad (Society of the History of Technology, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
'Sense and Sensibility: Technology and Consumption'

Ulrich Wengenroth (Munich Centre for the History of Science and Technology)
'What theories of consumption can achieve in the 20^th century history of technology: the service character and semiotics of everyday technologies.'

Tea & Coffee

Session 6

Closing discussion