Programme
History of Consumer Culture:
Objects, Desire and Sociability
23-25 March 2017, Gakushuin University, Tokyo
Day 1 Thursday
23 March 2017
10:30-10:45 Registration
10:45-11:00
Welcome speech by Satomi Ohashi
11:00-12:00 Keynote lecture 1 Toshio Kusamitsu Professor in Humanities and Culture, Open University of Japan Consumption and Biography
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:45 Session 1: Education and Collection (chair: Hiroki Shin)
Leah Clark Objects, sociability, and the spaces of collection in fifteenth century Italy
Kaz Oishi Humanities and Education in the Context of Globalized Economy in the Early 19th Century
Hiromi Kouno & Sunil Manghani Florence Nightingale as a National Heroine to Be Consumed
Yusuke Tanaka Anthony Panizzi and the politics of museum in Victorian Britain
14:45-15:00 Tea/coffee
15:00-16:45 Session 2: Sociable Objects (chair: Toshio Kusamitsu)
Karen Harvey Civic Pride and Civic Products? Objects and their Makers in 18th and early 19th century Birmingham and Sheffield
Yasuko Suga Social Interactions through Corrections Fairs: marketing objects made in prison
16:45-17:00 Tea/coffee
17:00-18:00 Keynote lecture 2 (chair: Kaz Oishi) Prof Lawrence Klein Professor of History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Politeness, Things and the Question of Civil Society
18:30-20:30 Conference dinner
Day 2 Friday
24 March 2017
10:15-11:30 Session 3: Luxury and Necessity (chair: Chikashi Sakashita)
Anat Rosenberg Shopping on your husband's credit: The doctrine of necessaries and the modernization of consumption
Hiroki Shin Between Luxury and Necessity: Electricity in Britain, 1920s–1950s
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-13:35 Session 4: Domestic Consumption (chair: Maxine Berg)
Jon Stobart Elite consumers and the pursuit of comfort in Georgian England
Satomi Ohashi Public sales and the local community: an aspect of the consuming culture in England in the 18th century
13:40-14:55 Session 5: Consuming Icons (chair: Akiko Shimbo)
Ariane Fennetaux Pockets, Consumption and Female Sociablity in Eighteenth-century London
Shinobu Majima Macro and micro innovations in eighteenth-century fashion
14:55-15:10 Tea/coffee
15:10-16:25 Session 6: Cross-Border Consumer Culture (chair: Lawrence Klein)
Josefine Baark The gift of giving: gift exchange as the foundation of early modern cross-cultural consumption
Aki Toyoyama Transaction and Translation of Modernity: Japanese Majolica Tiles in Colonial India
16:30-17:30 Keynote lecture 3 (chair: Toshio Kusamitsu) Prof Maxine Berg Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick Who Made Luxury? Craft Economies between the Local and the Global
Day 3 Saturday
25 March 2017
9:00-10:40 Parallel Session 1: Home and Education (chair: Yusuke Tanaka)
Dikla Yizhar Constructing Home: consumerism and the participatory turn in housing in Israel 1970s
Maria Cristache From 'culturedness' to westernness: old and new consumption practices in Romanian postsocialist homes
Oleksandra Sushchenko Commercialization of education and consumer vanity
Tatsuya Mitsuda Children as consumer: sweets and snacking in the construction of confectionary consumer culture in modern Japan
9:00-10:40 Parallel Session 2: Fashion and Body (chair: Shinobu Majima)
Kelly McCormick “My Sister is Making the World’s Cameras!” Depictions of Female Producers and Users of Cameras in Postwar Japan
Hadas Fischer Wearing the empire: suits, masculinity and the making of colonial citizenship in British-ruled Palestine
Basia Sliwinska The female body as a consumer object: from 'edible woman' to 'some body'
Cheryl Nye "I'm with the Band": constructing and deconstructing culture and subculture
10:40-10:45 Short break
10:45-12:00 Parallel Session 3: Changes in Culture (chair: Hiroki Shin)
Eli Cook Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books and the "Free-to-Choose" Culture of 1980s America
Oded Webman Performative consumption from Maison Dom-Ino to Ikea hackers
Elena Ivanova Gardening in the context of creative consumerism and development of public sphere
10:45-12:00 Parallel Session 4: Nation and Consumers (chair: Satomi Ohashi)
Michiko Sakaguchi Common devices and etiquette for a debutant: surviving extreme awkward situations in late-Victorian and Edwardian society
Darin Stephanov From medals to mugs: ruler visibility, 'ruler objects', and sociability in the late Ottoman and Russian empires
12:00-12:15 Closing Announcement and Depart for Optional Tour
Optional Tour to Mt Takao Area 12:30-13:30 Railway travel to Takaosanguchi Station
13:30-14:30 Lunch by Mt Takao at Takahashiya
14:30-15:00 A casual hike using chair lift to Sanjo Sation
15:00-15:30 Walk up paved road to the sacred Mt Takao Yakuo-in Temple
15:30-16:30 A view of Mt Fuji and cherry blossoms at Mt Takao summit
16:30-17:00 Descending from Mt Takao and crossing the suspension bridge
17:00-17:30 Back to Takaosanguchi Station and depart for the dinner
Rainy-day options
14:30-16:00 Visiting the newly built Takao 599 Museum
16:00-17:00 Trying out the natural hot spring Takaosan Onsen Gokurakuyu
17:00-17:30 Back to Takaosanguchi Station and depart for the dinner
Grand course dinner in a bamboo grove
18:00-20:30 Enjoy the sumptuous traditional dinner at Ukai Chikutei
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