The 2013 CHORD Conference<\/p>\n
on: ‘Retailing and the Senses: Historical Perspectives’<\/p>\n
will take place at the Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds on 5 September 2013<\/p>\n
The programme, together with abstracts, registration forms and further information about the venue, can be found at:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/home.wlv.ac.uk\/~in6086\/2013conf.htm<\/a><\/p>\n 9.30 – 10.00 Clare Backhouse, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, \u2018Broadside ballads, Dress and the Senses in Seventeenth-Century England\u2019<\/p>\n 10.00 – 10.30 Lucy A. Bailey, University of Northampton, UK, \u2018An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop\u2019<\/p>\n 11.00 – 11.30 Ben Highmore, Sussex University, UK, \u2018Proven\u00e7al Herbs and the Chicken Brick: Sensual Orchestration at the first Habitat Store\u2019<\/p>\n 11.30 – 12.00 Ai Hisano, University of Delaware, US, \u2018The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States\u2019<\/p>\n 13.30 – 14.45 A Touch of Cloth<\/p>\n Serena Dyer, University of Warwick, UK, \u2018\u201dDiscomposing the Goods\u201d: Sensory Shopping and the Consumption of Clothing, 1750-1850\u2019<\/p>\n Angela Loxham, Lancaster University, UK, \u2018Clothing, Touch and Liberal Governance\u2019<\/p>\n Danielle Sprecher, University of Leeds and Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK, \u2018How Does It Handle? The Place of Cloth in the Marketing and Selling of Menswear in Britain, c.1945-1980\u2019<\/p>\n 14.45 – 15.15 Stephanie Rains, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, \u2018Touch Wood: Women, Shopping and the Politics of Sitting Down\u2019<\/p>\n 15.45 – 16.30 Contemporary Retailing and the Senses<\/p>\n Amber Martin, University of Nottingham, UK, \u2018Sex Shops and the Senses: The Sensory Nature of Sex Product Consumption\u2019<\/p>\n Tracy Smith, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, ‘Pleasure, Identity and the Absence of Touch: The Conflicting Characteristics of the Online and Physical Retail Environments’<\/p>\n 16.30 – 17.00 Katy Mullin, University of Leeds, UK, \u2018Victorian Shop-girls, Sexuality and the Senses\u2019<\/p>\n The 2013 CHORD<\/span> Conference<\/p>\n on: ‘Retailing and the Senses: Historical<\/span> Perspectives’<\/p>\n will take place at the Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Leeds<\/p>\n on 5 September 2013<\/p>\n The programme, together with abstracts, registration forms and further information about the venue, can be found at:
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