Preliminary Programme

Showing: Material and Consumer Culture (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-1 MAT03 Global Luxury Commodities: Production, Exchange, Consumption and Valuation
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Beverly Lemire
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Bernd Stephan Grewe : Towards a Global History of Luxury: Transcultural and Decentered Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon
Karin Hofmeester : Diamonds: a Global Luxury Commodity Shaping Global Connections
Karin Pallaver : "The Mysterious End of the World in Which Beads are Found under Ground": Venetian Glass Beads in 19th-Century East Africa
Giorgio Riello : From Luxury to Fashionable Necessity: The Success of Cotton Textiles in the First Global Age



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
N-2 WOM23 MAT7 Convents, Consumption and Material Culture in Early Modern Central Europe
Hörsaal 33 first floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Women and Gender Chair: Ute Stroebele
Organizer: Janine Maegraith Discussants: Sofia Murhem, Göran Ulväng
Veronika Capská : Books and Prints “pro foro externo” Published by Convents in the Early Modern Habsburg Monarchy
Ellinor Forster : The Self-conception of Convents and Chapters in Early Modern Times Reflected in their Material Culture
Janine Maegraith : Sugar, Spices and Coffee: Exotic Comestibles within Convent Walls and Changes in Consumption Pattern. The Case of Gutenzell 1670 – 1812
Christine Schneider : Between Monastic Vow and Economic Constraint: How Poor does a Nun have to be?
Igor Sosa Mayor : ‘Hygienisation’ of the Home? Sacred Objects in House Chapels and their Ecclesiastical Control


W-2 MAT04 Global Trade and European Fashion: People and Commodities in the Transformation of European Material Culture, c. 1500-1800
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Michael North
Organizer: Beverly Lemire Discussants: -
Christine Fertig, Ulrich Pfister : Coffee, Mind and Body: Stories of Globalization and Consumption, Hamburg, 18th Century
Veronika Hyden-Hanscho : Beaver Hats in Vienna: Global Dimensions of French Commodities, c. 1650-1750
Beverly Lemire : A Question of Trousers: Mariners and Empire in the Crafting of Democratic Male Dress in Britain, c. 1600-1820
Renate Pieper : Red and Blue: New Colours from a New World (1550-1650)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
R-3 ELI01a A Taste for Luxury in Sweden, Finland and Russia, c. 1750–1850 – Luxury and National Taste I
Hörsaal 42 second floor
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Organizers: Ulla Ijäs, Johanna Ilmakunnas Discussant: Jon Stobart
Ulla Ijäs : The Mania of Copying the Luxury of St. Petersburg in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century Vyborg, Russia/Finland
Sofia Murhem, Göran Ulväng : To Buy a Plate. Retail and Shopping for Porcelain and Faience in Stockholm during the 18th Century
Marie Steinrud : To Bring Delight to a Nose: The Swedish Ironmasters and their Network of Commissioners
Lauri Suurmaa, Raimo Pullat : Probate Inventories as Sources for the Study of the History of Luxury in Estonian Towns in the Early Modern Period (18th Century)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
R-4 ELI01b A Taste for Luxury in France, Spain and Britain, c. 1750–1900 – Luxury and National Taste II
Hörsaal 42 second floor
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ulla Ijäs
Organizers: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Jon Stobart Discussant: Henrika Tandefelt
Kerry Bristol : A Tale of Two Sales: Sir Rowland Winn and No.11 St James’s Square, London, 1766-1785
Natacha Coquery : Luxury Goods beyond Boundaries. The Parisian Market during the French Revolution
Nadia Fernandez de Pinedo, Corinne Thépaut- Cabasse : A taste for French style in the Bourbon Spain: eating, drinking and clothing in Madrid (1740’s)
Johanna Ilmakunnas : ‘Luxury of Needlework. Elite Women, Material Culture and Handicrafts in French Eighteenth-century Paintings
Jon Stobart : ‘A Very English Affair? Furnishing the Hanoverian English Country House’



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-5 MAT09 Nouveaux Riches and Country House Culture in Europe, 1750-1914. Comparative Research on ‘Landed’ Consumption Styles of the Rich and Very Rich
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Yme Kuiper
Organizer: Yme Kuiper Discussant: Jon Stobart
Kate Smith : Nabobs No More: Returning East India Company Families
Elyze Storms-Smeets : Textile ‘Barons’ as a New Landed Elite in the 19th Century: a Geographical and Comparative Approach
Henrika Tandefelt, Maria Vainio-Kurtakko : New Money and Old Families – Coexistence, Competition and Consumption Finland c. 1870–1920
Fred Vogelzang : Industrialists and Country House Culture in the Dutch Province of Limburg during the 19th Century



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
J-6 ASI03 History of Materials, Objects and Waste in Asia
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Networks: Asia , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Saurabh Arora : An Exploration into the Materiality of Colonial Governance: Mixing Humans and Nonhumans in South Indian 'Criminal Settlements’ 1911-1930
Evelien de Hoop, Dr. Saurabh Arora : Material Meanings: Historicizing the Indian 'Wasteland’ as a Performative Classifier
Chieko Nakajima : Privy, City, and Empire: Human Waste Disposal in Semi-Colonial Shanghai


W-6 MAT08 Mass Consumption Society Contested. The Politics of Consumer Concerns from a Global Perspective (1945-2000)
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Gita Deneckere
Organizer: Giselle Nath Discussant: Alexander Sedlmaier
Martin Gerth : The History of Boycott Movements in Germany
Sanjukta Ghosh : Decolonisation and the Consumer Politics of Hunger in Bengal 1944-50.
Fruzsina Müller : Jeans Production in Socialist Hungary
Giselle Nath : Postwar Consumer Movements in Belgium: Politicization, Depolitization and Competition (1957-1970)
Peter van Dam : Moralizing the Global Marketplace. Fair Trade in the Netherlands since the 1960s


X-6 TEC03a Technologies @ Home: Uses, Practices and Negotiation of New Technologies in Nineteenth-Century Urban Homes
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Britt Denis
Organizers: Britt Denis, Ellen Janssens Discussants: -
Abigail Harrison Moore : Palpitatingly Modern Luxury: Electrifying the Country House.
Ellen Janssens : Domestic Water Use in the Pre-waterworks Era (Antwerp, Belgium 1800-1880)
Timo Myllyntaus : Life Styles Coloured by Heating Technology. Contrasts of Urban and Rural Homes in Pre-modern Finland
Leda Papastefanaki : Sewing at Home. The Sewing Machine and the Household in Greece, 19th Century
Emily January Petersen : “Invent This, O Ye Men”: The Female Inventor of the Dishwasher and Communication



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
X-7 TEC03b Domestic Technologies
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg : Make Music but Waste no Energy: The Player Piano, Political Economy and Psychophysiology
Clive Edwards : Consumer Timber Choices as Signifiers in 20th Century Furniture
Isabelle Favre-Felix : The Rise of Television in France: a Path towards a New Consumer Society ? (1945-1985)
Susan Haight : Modeling Domesticity in Toronto: the T. Eaton Company’s House Displays 1926-1950



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-9 MAT11 Rural Artisans, Shops and Consumers
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lucy Bailey : ‘A Veritable Palace of Delight’: The Sentimental Portrayal of Childhood and the Village Shop in Victorian Literary and Visual Culture
Béatrice Craig : Modernity, Respectability and the Early 18th Century Canadian Rural Consumer
Marie Ulväng : Clothing, Gender, Values and Valuations in 19th Century
Merja Uotila : Rural Artisans in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland
Ann Wilson : Production, Consumption and Agency: Catholic Images in Late Nineteenth-century Ireland


Z-9 MID04 The 'Props' of Everyday Life? Material Culture, Daily Practices and Urban Values in Late Medieval and early Modern Urban Society
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Middle Ages Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizer: Inneke Baatsen Discussants: -
Kim Overlaet, Inneke Baatsen : A Spoonful of Meanings? An Analysis of the Layered Meanings of Silver Spoons in Sixteenth-century Mechelen
Maxime Poulain : Cultural Identity and Social Standing: the Case-study of Middelburg
Isis Sturtewagen : Clothing the Children. Dress and Daily Life at the Begard School of Bruges in the mid-16th Century.
Katherine Wilson : The Function of Textiles in Domestic Spaces from the Evidence of Testaments and Inventories from Later Medieval Dijon, Douai and Tournai



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-10 MAT12 Marketing & Advertising
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Klara Arnberg, Jonatan Svanlund : Mad Women: Gendered Business in the Swedish Advertising Industry, 1870-1980
Gerulf Hirt, Sandra Schürmann : When the Cigarette Went to War: Investigating the Branded Product's Political Cultures during and after World War I
Sorcha O'Brien : Making Meaning with Ephemera – Electrical Technology and Irish National Identity in the 1920s
Cheryl Roberts : A Price for Fashion: A Young Working Class Woman’s Wardrobe in 1930s London.



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-13 MAT16 The Kitchen – a Room for Social Utopias, Ideals and Everyday Life during the Long Twentieth Century
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Jenny Lee Discussants: -
Rosalia Guerrero Cantarell : The Kitchen as a Loving Gendered Workplace in 1930s Sweden
Jenny Lee : Sowing Vegetables and Reaping Morality – Ideals on the Benefits of Kitchen Gardening
Fredrik Sandgren : The Freeze-chain Completed? When the Deepfrozen Food System Invaded the Swedish Kitchen 1945-1960
Abhijit Sarkar : The State in the Kitchen: State-Intervention in Food and Popular Responses in Wartime India (1939-45)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-14 MAT17 Jewish Space and Material Culture in Central Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Lisa Silverman Discussants: -
Dieter Hecht : The Mapping Wall: Framed Jewish Family Pictures
Louise Hecht : Appropriation of Jewish Space on the Wiener Ringstrasse: a Poet’s Apartment in Palais Schey
Elana Shapira : Bringing Culture to the Viennese? Jewish Patrons and Entrepreneurs Fashioning the Viennese Ring and the Entertainment Park Prater
Lisa Silverman : Vienna’s Jewish Geography: Imagining the Leopoldstadt



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-15 POL MAT14 The Politics of Shopping in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: Reconsidering Party, Gender, Rhetoric and Activism
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Kerstin Brückweh
Organizers: - Discussant: Vit Simral
Lawrence Black : The Knowledge Economy: Progressive Grocers, Shoppers and the Politics of Labeling in C20 Consumer History
Gidon Cohen : Consumption and Political Identity in Post-war Britain
Philippa Haughton : “Widening the Scope of Advertising’s Vision”: the Women’s Advertising Club of London’
Emily Robinson : “For Progressive Men only": The Politics of Commerce in Inter-war Britain
Will Wilson : Materiality, Festivity, and the Structuring of Society in the Third Reich, 1933-1939



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
W-16 MAT15 Visualizing Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Leif Runefelt
Organizers: Leif Runefelt, Karin Sennefelt Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Eva Deak : Clothing Colors in Early Modern Transylvania (17th-18th Century)
Lucas Haasis : O Captain! My Captain! Hierarchies in 18th Century Correspondences between Merchants and Ship`s Captains
Astrid Pajur : Order and Disorder in an Urban Setting: Perceptions and Practices of Social Order in Early Modern Tallinn
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Filtering Impressions: Meeting with Fashionable Goods in Danish Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Karin Sennefelt : Looking at Social Hierarchy: Stockholm 1650–1750


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