Comparative Studies of Consumption Conference

Tea/Coffee on arrival

Session 1: Comparative analyses of consumption

Alan Warde, Dale Southerton, Wendy Olsen and Shu-Li Cheng,
(The University of Manchester),
"Introducing Diffusions of Cultures of Consumption: challenges, rewards and pitfalls of comparative studies of consumption"

Peter Jackson,
(Sheffield University),
"Transnational commodity culture in London and Mumbai"

Lunch

Frank Trentmann,
(Birkbeck College, London and Director of ESRC Cultures of Consumption Research Programme),
"Comparing Cultures of Consumption: Historical Perspectives and Dilemmas"

Tea/Coffee

Session 2: Globalisation and consumer culture?

Jukka Gronow,
(University of Uppsala, Sweden),
“Consumption in Soviet Russia”

Margit Keller,
(University of Tartu, Estonia),
"Scarcity and/or abundance: reflections on post-Soviet consumer culture"

Practising consumption: Drinks and Conference dinner

Session 2: Globalisation and consumer culture? (continued)

Mike Savage,
(University of Manchester),
“Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and consumption”

Tea/Coffee

Session 3: Comparing practices of consumption: eating and reading

Eating:

Alan Warde, Dale Southerton, Wendy Olsen and Shu-Li Cheng,
(The University of Manchester),
"Trajectories of eating practices in the UK, Norway, USA, France and Netherlands"

Unni Kjaernes (SIFO, Norway) and Mark Harvey (University of Manchester),
"Trust and the institutionalisation of food consumption: a European comparison"

Lunch

Reading:

Alan Warde, Dale Southerton, Wendy Olsen and Shu-Li Cheng,
(The University of Manchester),
"Reading time: a comparison of UK, Norway, USA, France and Netherlands"

Andries van den Broek,
(Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands),
"Comparing reading practices of ethnic groups in the Netherlands: content and context of media consumption"

Tea/Coffee

Conference observations from Adrian Franklin and general discussion