[eccr] 'Consuming the City' symposium, Lancaster University

>Material Cultural and Consumption Group, Lancaster University
>
>'Consuming the City' symposium
>
>Thursday 27th May 2004
>Conference room 3, Conference Centre (Lonsdale College), Lancaster 
>University, UK
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>
>10.00-10.15     Welcome and introduction
>
>10.15-10.45     Malcolm Miles (City Cultures Research Unit, University of 
>Plymouth)
>                 'Housing Change: from Hassan Fathy to the Barefoot College.'
>
>10.45-11.15     Beatriz Jaguaribe (School of Communications, Federal 
>University of Rio de Janeiro)
>                                 'The shock of the real: the aesthetics of 
> realism and the urban experience'.
>
>11.15-11.30     discussion
>
>11.30-11.45     coffee
>
>11.45-12.15     Justin O'Connor (Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, 
>Manchester Metropolitan University)
>                                 'Manchester's Northern Quarter: creative 
> industries and urban regeneration'
>
>12.15-12.45     Adrian Mackenzie (Institute for Cultural Research, 
>Lancaster University)
>                                 'From cafe to Parkbench: wi-fi and 
> technological overflows in the city'
>
>12.45-1.00      discussion
>
>1.00-2.00       lunch
>
>2.00-2.30       Nick Gebhardt (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster 
>University)
>                 'Mass events, mass objects: the music of urban America'
>
>2.30-3.00       Bella Dicks (Sociology dept, University of Cardiff)
>                                 'On interpretation: technologies of 
> transformation in urban display'.
>
>3.00-3.15       discussion
>
>3.15-3.30       tea
>
>3.30-5.00       Roundtable discussion
>
>5.00            close
>
>
>Registration details
>
>Symposium organisers: Dr Anne Cronin & Prof Kevin Hetherington
>
>The number of places at the symposium is limited, so please book in good 
>time. Registration and lunch are free for postgraduate students; staff 
>registration fee is £20 (includes buffet lunch and tea/coffee).
>
>Details of accommodation can be provided upon request.
>
>Sociology dept website:
>http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/
>
>Material Culture and Consumption Group website:
>http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/materialculture.htm
>
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>Consuming the City
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>
>Please complete this form and send it to:
>Dr Anne Cronin, Sociology dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL.
>
>Please make cheques payable to 'Lancaster University'. (Lancaster 
>participants may pay by internal transfer - please send your details).
>
>
>Name:
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>University/affiliation:
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>Staff/student (please delete as applicable)
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>Fee enclosed:
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>Postal address:
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>Email address:
>For further information, contact Anne Cronin: (a.cronin /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)
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>
>Dr Anne Cronin
>Institute for Cultural Research/Sociology dept
>Lancaster University
>Lancaster LA1 4YL
>UK
>Tel. (01524) 593594
>(a.cronin /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)

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