ESRC Research Seminar Series

on Identities and Consumption: 2006-2007        Provisional Programme

 

1        Consumption, cyber-identities and new forms of citizenship                   

            Half-day seminar                                                         University of Bath: 30th January 2006

 *   Prof. Jim Gee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 *   Prof Andrea Press, University of Illinois, USA                                * Jacob Habgood, LSRI,

  *  Dr Monica Whitty, Queens University, Belfast                                     Nottingham University

 

2        Branded identities, marketing and the process of commodification     

Half-day seminar                                                   University of Birmingham: 24th April 2006

 *   Prof. Russell Belk, University of Utah, USA, Visiting Professor at Department of Marketing, Lancaster University Management School 

 *   Prof. Richard Elliott, Business School, University of Warwick                                              

 *   Prof. Doug Holt, Said Business School, Worcester College Oxford  

 *   Yasmin Sekhon, Birmingham University Business School

 

3        The new consumers: Childhood and youth                          

Half-day seminar                                                Open University, Milton Keynes: July 2006

 *   Prof. Kenichi Kawasaki, Komasazawa University, Japan

 *   Dr Liz Moor, Middlesex University                                                                                     

 *   Dr Christine Griffin / Agnes Nairn / Patricia Gaya Wickes, University of Bath

 *   Postgrad speaker tba

     

4        Representation, identities and consumption                                                                            

Half-day seminar                                 Goldsmiths College, University of London: Nov 2006

*   Prof. Karin Ekstrom, University of Gothenberg, Sweden                                                       

*   Prof. Ann Gray, University of Lincoln

     Dr Sean Nixon, University of Essex

*   Claire Barratt, Central St Martin’s College of Art, London

    

5        ‘Money’s too tight to mention’: Consumption on the margins     

Half-day seminar                                  University of Teesside, Middlesboro: February 2007

 *   Prof. Elizabeth Chin, Occidental College, LA, USA                                                             

 *   Prof. Rob MacDonald, University of Teesside

      Dr Robert Hollands, University of Newcastle

 *   Elena Zezlina-Phillips, Anglia Ruskin University

    

6        Disordered consumption: Health, identities and social policies around consumption       

1.5 day conference                                                                   University of Bath: July 2007

      *    Prof. Sally Casswell, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

*    Dr Shane Blackman, Canterbury College                                        * Postgrad speakers tba

*    Dr Sarah Riley, University of Bath                                                                                       

      Don Shenker, Director of Policy + Services, Alcohol Concern (UK Government Alcohol Strategy)

      * Clive Henn, Senior Alcohol Adviser, Department of Health (Adviser on UK Government Alcohol Strategy)

      Andrew Brown, DG, Advertising Industry Association (Advertising industry perspective on proposed legislation)

* Dr Sandra Passmore, Birmingham Health Education Unit (Nutrition policies in schools)

 *   Fin Cullen, Goldsmith’s College, London

 

For further information, and if you wish to go on the Seminar Series mailing list, contact:

Dr Christine Griffin                                                                   Email: c.griffin@bath.ac.uk

Department of Psychology                                                                       Tel: 01225 385293

University of Bath

 

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