This workshop will bring together advanced doctoral researchers and recent PhDs from the social sciences and the arts and humanities to discuss new research and methods in the study of consumption. The aim is to foster dialogue across conventional disciplinary boundaries and to give young researchers a chance to share ideas and explore possibilities for future multidisciplinary collaboration.
Consumption involves a diverse set of practices, goods, and values that has attracted ever-expanding attention from a range of academic communities and research traditions, stretching from history and sociology to geography, economics, psychology, the creative and performing arts, philosophy and law. The expansion of this field makes it ever more challenging yet vital to create bridges between these disciplinary traditions and fields of inquiry. The workshop will be an opportunity for young researchers to meet and share their research, to enter into dialogue with researchers from other disciplines, to reflect about current methodological issues, and to explore possibilities for collaboration.
The workshop is organised by the Cultures of Consumption research programme, jointly sponsored by the ESRC and the AHRC, but is open to all interested young researchers from across the social sciences and the arts and humanities. The workshop will include panels and short presentations as well as more informal, flexible formats for joint discussion, and a roundtable to explore emerging directions of research with Prof. Peter Jackson (geography, Sheffield), Prof. Elizabeth Shove (sociology, Lancaster), and Dr. Frank Trentmann (history, Birkbeck).
Interested participants should submit by 1 September 2006 a one-page statement about their own research and the question or subject they would like to see explored at the workshop, plus a one-page short CV, including full contact details. Applicants should have recently completed their PhD or comparable degree, or be in the advanced stages of their doctoral research. Please send paper copies to: Stefanie Nixon, Cultures of Consumption research programme, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX. Please mark the outside of your envelope with ‘young researchers workshop’.
Places are limited. Availability will be confirmed by 2 October 2006. The Cultures of Consumption programme will pay for accommodation and economy-fare travel. Further guidance on making your travel arrangements will be issued once places have been confirmed.
For further information please see: www.consume.bbk.ac.uk or contact Stefanie Nixon at esrcConsume@bbk.ac.uk / 020 7079 0601.
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