Preliminary Programme

Showing: Material and Consumer Culture (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
W-3 MAT05 Material Culture of the Aristocracy
Room 2.12
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Bruno Blondé
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Veerle De Laet : "In his Majesty's Service". Cultural go-betweens in 17th and 18th centuries Brussels
Eva Deak : Materials and colors of clothes in a princely court: the example of Alba Iulia during the reign of Gabriel Bethlen



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
H-6 MAT14 Material culture and modernization
Room 1.1
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Brigitte Le Normand
Organizers: - Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Natalya Chernyshova : ‘Even the Most Backward Segments of Society Have Put on Jeans’: Consumption and Social Status under Late Soviet Socialism, 1964-1985
Emília Marques : Material culture and social conflict: distinction and counter-distinction in the Portuguese “Carnations Revolution” (1974)
Tibor Valuch : The power of consumption - The changing of fashionable clothing in Hungary in the second half of the 20th century



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
B-7 MAT06 Heritage and material culture on display I
Cave B
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Hester Dibbits
Organizers: Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Hanna Snellman Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Judy Jaffe-Schagen : Presenting identities.
Kathrin Pieren : Negotiating minority identities though the public display of material culture
Hanna Snellman : Ethnicity Captured by Museums
Marta Vilar Rosales : Things from Home. Memory, material culture, identity narratives and Portuguese colonial experiences.



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
B-8 MAT07 Heritage and material culture on display II
Cave B
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Judy Jaffe-Schagen
Organizers: Hester Dibbits, Judy Jaffe-Schagen Discussant: Marga Altena
Hester Dibbits : The exhibition of ‘European migrant culture’
Kate Mcintyre : At Home in the Museum?
Kati Mikkola : Nation-Building and Self-Taught Folklore Collectors in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Finland
Uta Protz : The Export of Works of Art and the Construction of Cultural Identity
Nancy Stockdale : Selling the Sultan and His People: Christopher Oscanyan's Oriental and Turkish Museum



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
H-9 MAT03 Courts and food
Room 1.1
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizers: Danielle De Vooght, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Peter Scholliers
David Burrow : Food at the Russian court in the 19th century
Danielle De Vooght : Culinary networks of power (Belgium, 2nd part 19th century)
Anne Lair : France: Examples of Food Court during the Second Empire
Özge Samanci : Ottoman Courtly Banquets Arranged in French Style (1850-1918)



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
K-10 NMMAT Network meeting: Material and Consumer Culture
Room 4
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
A-11 MAT08 The performativity of objects I: technology
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tiina Männistö-Funk : The summer of sound - The Finnish gramophone fever phenomenon in 1929
Marco Musillo : Knowledge and Use of ‘Chinese’ paper in seventeenth-century Milan and Europe
Lewis Siegelbaum : "Cars, Cars, and More Cars: The Faustian Bargain of the Brezhnev Era"
Ine Van Dooren : Magic Lantern 19th Century production boom: diversity, standardisation and popularity.



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
A-12 MAT09 The performativity of objects II: public and private
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Lesley Whitworth Discussant: Marta Vilar Rosales
Karin Dannehl : Objects’ role in explaining ephemeral activity
Stella Moss : ‘ “Safeguarded From Perils”: Youth, Gender and the Interwar English Public House’
Hana Pelikanova : Housing Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia in the Light of Oral History Sources



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
A-13 MAT10 The performativity of objects III: commodities
Cave A
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eugénie Briot : Fashion sprayed and displayed: the parisian market of perfumery at the turn of the XXth century
Jonathan Morris : The Cappuccino Conquests : The Transnational History of Italian Coffee
Marina Moskowitz : Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Rachel Worth : Marks & Spencer and the Impact of Mass-produced Clothing on Notions of Fashion



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
A-14 LAB17 The performativity of objects IV: The Social History of Food
Cave A
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizer: Julie Guard Discussant: Linda Lane
Oskar Broberg : Alternative Visions and Organic Branding. The Construction of a Market for Organic Milk in Sweden 1970-2000
Christine Garcia : The Cultural Revolution of Animal Rights Veganism
Julie Guard : The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s
Franca Iacovetta : Food Wars and Culinary Pluralism in a Cold War City: Toronto, 1940s-1960s


V-14 MAT12 Globalization and Material Culture
Room 2.10
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Corinne A. Pernet
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Damayanthie Eluwawalage : The European Influence in Colonial Australian Fashion and Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Kennan Ferguson : “Mastering the Art of Nationalism: Julia Child and the Gustatory Construction of French Culture”
Jasmina Guseva : Globalization and New Trends in Culture
Beverly Lemire : Rethinking Asian trade and Europe’s material culture:



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
T-15 MAT13 The propensity to spend, gamble and save
Room 9
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizer: Harm Nijboer Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Pat Ayers : The World Reshaped: the impact of Liverpool factory closures on working-class consumption, 1978-88
Gerard Borst : Working-class saving in the Netherlands, 1870-1970
Jean-Francois Constant : State regulation and the social construction of consumer trust, 1870-1914
Paddy Dolan : Social interdependencies and the advancing threshold of consumption needs
Riitta Matilainen : Consumer dreams of Finnish gamblers in the era of an emerging consumer society



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
D-17 MAT01 Second hand circuits of exchange: selling, the retailer and regulation
Cave D
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Laura Cruz : All Ruiled Up: Reconstructing Second Hand Book Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands
Dries Lyna : In the twilight between old and new. The second-hand markets for paintings in 18th century Antwerp and Brussels.
Ian Mitchell : Second-hand Book Trades in England, c.1680-1850
Martin Wottle : What’s new? Legal discourse on second-hand goods in 18th and early 19th century Stockholm.



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
L-18 MAT02 Second hand circuits of exchange: buying, the consumer and their motivations
Room 5.1
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Jon Stobart
Organizers: Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme Discussant: Jon Stobart
Clive Edwards, Margaret Ponsonby : A desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of second-hand furniture, 1750-1850.
Robin Jones : 'souvenirs of people who have come and gone': second-hand furnishings and the Anglo-Indian domestic interior, 1840-1920
Kristina Lilja, Sofia Murhem & Göran Ulväng : Second-hand furniture fashion. Auction consumption of furniture in Sweden 1690-1850
Alison Toplis : A stolen garment or a reasonable purchase? The male consumer and the illicit second hand clothing market in the first half of the nineteenth century


O-18 MAT15 Memories, Materiality and Economies in the Mennonite Diaspora
Room 7.1
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Royden Loewen
Organizers: Royden Loewen, Harm Nijboer Discussant: Royden Loewen
Anna Sofia Hedberg : “We should always live like this” – Old Colony Mennonite Images of the Past and Idea of the Forthcoming
Lisette Hijink : Old Order Mennonite women and their material culture
Yme Kuiper : Between frugality and civility. Dutch Mennonites and their taste for the 'world of goods' in the eighteenth century.
Carel Roessingh : Mennonites, Migration and the Invention of New Cultures: Low German Mennonites of Belize


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