Preliminary Programme

Showing: Material and Consumer Culture (all days)
Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
C-1 MAT02 Life Stories of Consumption
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lewis Siegelbaum
Organizers: - Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Matleena Frisk : New consumer goods, adolescent identities and embodied gender in mid 20th century Finland
Joeri Januarius : Keeping Up Appearances? Clothing, Haircuts, and Material Culture of Mineworkers’ Families in the 1950s
Lesley Whitworth : The American Notebooks: Natasha Kroll's 1948 US retail research trip



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
I-2 TEC02 National Technological Politics
Room D1, Pauli
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Meyer
Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Kristina Söderholm : Shared problems, shared costs and common solutions. Cooperation for clean technology development in the Swedish pulp- and paper industry 1900-1990.
Sabil Francis : Negotiating Technology: The IITs in India
Lewis Siegelbaum : Sputnik and the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, 1958
Will Wilson : 'A Nation at Work' Exhibition Düsseldorf 1937: Producing and Consuming


R-2 MAT05 Material and Consumer Culture in Transformation
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Merijn Knibbe
Organizers: - Discussant: Merijn Knibbe
Eloy Alves Filho, Arlete Salcides : The use of traditional and modern technics in the small farms in Brazil
Ingo Heidbrink : US Influences on Danish Colonial Greenland - The material culture
Alan Hutchinson : The introduction of new consumer goods in the Northern Trade
Jaco Zuijderduijn : Investment Strategies in 16th Century Holland



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
R-3 MAT04 Court Consumption
Atelier R3, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Jonathan Spangler Discussant: Peter Stabel
Christina Antenhofer : Luggage for a life yet to live: The Bride’s treasure as an example for female material culture
Luc Duerloo : Tangible Courtesies: Diplomatic Gift Exchange at the Archducal Court of Brussels
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier : The "Menus Plaisirs" administration and its material sphere. A study on material court culture in the 18th century France
Dries Raeymaekers : Living like Kings and Loving it. Consumption and Display at the Court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in Brussels, 1598-1621
Jonathan Spangler : Material Culture in the Court of the Guise: inventories, libraries, furniture and visual representations of power and piety in 17th-century Paris



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
R-4 MAT03 Homemaking, Cherishing and the Senses
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Paddy Dolan
Organizers: - Discussant: Paddy Dolan
Kennan Ferguson : Eating the Nation
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger : Consumption fantasies in modern literature 1820-1860
Sara Pennell : Home is where the hearth is? Exploring the uses and means of the hearth in Restoration & later Stuart London (17th c.)
Margaret Ponsonby : A Home of One's Own? Spinsters, Bachelors and the Consumption of Homemaking in the Long 18th Century
Natalie Scholz : Whose authority reigns in the living room? Contested meanings of the past and the present in West German discourses on ‘Wohnkultur’ during the 1950s


Z-4 TEC01 The Development of New Consumer Cultures
M204, Marissal
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizers: - Discussant: Lesley Whitworth
Gabriele Balbi : How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone case study
Clive Edwards : Developing new markets in the European furniture industry through the use of lamination and bentwood design and technology, 1830-1880
Alberto Grandi : The refrigeration industry and changes in food consumption
Hiroki Shin, Colin Divall : Rapid travel in comfort: quality of passenger experience in the history of Britain's railways



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
C-5 ECO03 Fashion and Art Markets
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Networks: Economics , Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizers: - Discussant: Jon Stobart
Laura Ibisco, Valdo D'arienzo : The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Ian Mitchell : ‘I designe my books for posterity’: book collectors and conspicuous consumption in early modern England
Klas Nyberg : The economics of art and art industry: Patrons, artists and artisans in 18th century Stockholm


O-5 ANT04 Ancient Globalisation and Connectivity
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Networks: Antiquity , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Brooks Kaiser
Organizers: - Discussant: Brooks Kaiser
Colin Elliott : Inflation, Debasement and Economic Integration in the Third Century AD
Neville Morley : Consumption, commodities and control: the dynamics of Roman globalisation
Martin Pitts : Globalising processes and connectivity in Roman Britain


R-5 MAT01 Enlightenment and Divertissement:Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Hester Dibbits
Organizers: - Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Marieke Lefeber : Top hits of the rich; The role of the music on musical clocks in the eighteenth-century Netherlands
Kathryn Norberg : Cultural Capital in the Boudoir: Courtesans as Tastemakers in Eighteenth Century Paris
Kari Telste : An Eighteenth Century Reception Room: New Consumer Goods and International Trade Relations in Norway



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
N-6 MID01 Fabric and Gender I
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Shennan Hutton
Organizer: Shennan Hutton Discussant: Barbara Hanawalt
Rui Faria : Sheltering the Body, Storing Clothes and Tidying up the House: Material Culture in Northwest Portugal, 1540-1600
Joana Sequeira, Arnaldo Melo : Women’s role in Portuguese textile production in the Later Middle Ages
Peter Stabel : Dress as a social marker. The material culture of Bruges women in the late Midddle Ages


R-6 MAT06 Consumer Culture in the Early Modern Countryside
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Karin Dannehl
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Dannehl
Christof Jeggle : Providing Textiles on the Countryside. The Business of the Perrollaz-Chartier in Laufenburg / Rhine around 1800.
Olanda Barbosa Vilaça : Clothes for the Body, Clothes for the Bed: the Uses of Textiles in a Rural Environment (Northwest Portugal, 1750-1810)



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
N-7 MID02 Fabric and Gender II
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages , Women and Gender Chair: Laura Van Aert
Organizer: Shennan Hutton Discussant: Walter Prevenier
Valdo D'arienzo, Laura Ibisco : The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Laura Michele Diener : "Sacred Labor: Medieval Nuns and Textile Production"
Shennan Hutton : Organizing Specialized Production: Gender in Medieval Flemish Wool Cloth Industry


R-7 MAT07 Experiences of Chance, Motivation and Risk in Gambling
Atelier R3, Pauli
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Roberto Garvia
Organizer: Riitta Matilainen Discussant: Roberto Garvia
Orsi Husz : Work ethics and lottery ethics. Changing moral attitudes towards lottery in Sweden 1890s - 1939
Maria Kaizeler, Horácio Faustino & Rafael Marques : Why Do People Buy Lottery Products?
Sytze Kingma : Dostojevski and Freud: Autonomy and Addiction in Gambling
Riitta Matilainen : The roulette as a symbol of Western and continental way of life in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
A-9 MAT08 Old Collectables in a Modern World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chairs: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme Discussants: Dries Lyna, Ilja Van Damme
Manuel Charpy : Trafficking the world, trafficking the times. The market of exotic antiques in Paris between 1850 and 1914
Jozef Glassée : Collecting and donating art. On the relationship between private art consumption and donations to the fine arts museums of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent (c. 1800–c. 1914)
Julia Petrov : "Bits of Kernooze"; Homosociality and antiquarianism in Britain, 1880-1914
Adriana Turpin : The emerging antiques market in early 19th century England



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
K-11 MAT09 Authenticity, Canonization, Professionalization and the Museum
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: - Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Abigail Harrison Moore : Authentic Objects?: The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Antiques Trade in the early Twentieth Century
Uta Protz : The Construction of New Cultural Elites: The Foundation of the Vereniging Rembrandt (1883), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (1897), the Société des Amis du Louvre (1897) and the National Art Collections Fund (1903)
Mark Westgarth : Putting History in Order: Sir Samuel Meyrick’s ‘Period Rooms’ at Goodrich Court, 1828-1831


T-11 EDU10 Children, Youth and Cultural Transformation
M202, Marissal
Networks: Education and Childhood , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paddy Dolan : The Development of Childhood Subjectivity in Ireland since 1840: A Figurational Approach
Shurlee Swain : We are the stories we tell about ourselves



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
C-12 MAT10 Branding across Borders
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum
Networks: Economics , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Harm Nijboer
Organizers: - Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Bert De Munck : Guilds, branding and the location of value. Trade marks and monograms in early modern tableware industries
Katarina Friberg : Without boundaries – a consumer co-operative ideal and logo
Oliver Kühschelm : The Call for Patriotic Consumption in the Interwar years
Jennifer Scanlon : Branding Girlhood
Ilja Van Damme : A ‘knowledgeable’ retailer or a ‘recognizable’ product? An inquiry into early-modern branding strategies (Antwerp, 17th-18th centuries)



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
F-13 MAT13 Medieval Royal Treasuries: Consumption and Circulation of Luxury Goods
Vestibule, muziekcentrum
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Discussants: -
Luis Urbano Afonso : Beyond gems and gold: interpreting secular culture in the treasures of Portuguese high-aristocracy and royalty (c.1280-c.1340)
Hermenegildo Fernandes : Treasure and politics behind an Inventory: Denis of Portugal household accounts as a young king (1278-1283)
Isabel Guimarães Sá : Inhabited spaces: chambers, churches and oratories. The example of Portuguese queens and princesses (1450-1550)
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Adriana Almeida : Luxury and fashion in the 14th century. Precious fabrics, pearls and gold in the wardrobe of Leonor of Portugal



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
A-14 ELI12 Elites through material culture
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Organizer: Jari-Matti Kuusela Discussant: Jari Okkonen
Danielle De Vooght : Performing power at the table. Dining at the Belgian royal court of the nineteenth century
Laura Giacomini : The Life of the Milanese Elite in their Residences as Reconstructed through Estate Inventories (XVI-XVII century)
Jari-Matti Kuusela : Burials of the Finnish Iron Age as material discourses of the elite
Samuel Vaneeckhout : The origin of prehistoric elites in Finland



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
N-16 ELI13 Elites by the book: novels, diaries, autobiographies, account books, recipe books, inventories
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Paul Janssens
Organizers: Nikolaj Bijleveld, Yme Kuiper Discussant: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Yme Kuiper : Nobility and Fiction: the representation of the nobility in the 'roman fleuve' around 1900
Jaap Moes : Some aspects of the life style of Dutch aristocracy around 1900
Hanneke Ronnes : The memory of the noble house
Jon Stobart : Tea and cakes: elite consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England
Wybren Verstegen : Private landownership, nobility and nature conservation in the Netherlands 1928- 1973


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