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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:26:18 +0200
From: Guliz Ger <ger@bilkent.edu.tr>
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Seminar on Consumption Theory
11-17 June 2007
Bilkent University, Turkey
ABOUT THE SEMINAR
This is a 7-day intensive seminar to be held at the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. The intended audience includes doctoral students and faculty members, especially junior faculty members; however, anyone interested is welcome.
The website for the seminar is: http://crts.bilkent.edu.tr/act7.html. This website also includes a similar seminar run in 2005.
Objectives of the Seminar: 1. The goal of the seminar is to familiarize scholars with the socio-culturally inspired studies of consumption or Consumer Culture Theoretics (CCT). The readings and the speakers highlight an interdisciplinary perspective and seek to expose the participants to discussions of consumption in marketing, anthropology, sociology, communication, and cultural and gender studies. The historical, socio-cultural, economic and ethical dimensions and challenges of consumption in developed and developing nations in the contemporary global world are emphasized.
2. We will discuss what constitutes a theoretical contribution and how to theorize. Thus, the seminar also aims to enable the participants to conceptualize their work in relationship to the literature.
Seminar Coordinators: Güliz Ger, Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey, ger@bilkent.edu.tr.
Berna Tari (contact person), Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey, tberna@bilkent.edu.tr.
Faculty:
Eric Arnould, University of Arizona
Søren Askegaard, University of Southern Denmark-Odense
Russell Belk, University of York
Güliz Ger, Bilkent University
Douglas Holt, Oxford University
Sidney Levy, University of Arizona
Arvind Rajagopal, New York University
Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University
Richard Wilk, Indiana University
Location and Dates: The seminar will take place at Bilkent University, Faculty of Business Administration premises, located 13 kilometers away from downtown Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The seminar will begin at 9:00 a.m. Monday, June 11 and end the night of Sunday, June 17. Information about the university can be found on the web site http://www.bilkent.edu.tr. Two websites about life in Turkey and Ankara are http://www.mymerhaba.com; http://goturkey.kulturturism.gov.tr
Other course Information: The seminar will be held in English and is 6 ECTS credits. Participants are free to choose to make a presentation and get course credit or not. Those participants willing to present their research projects will receive feedback, will be evaluated, and receive course credit. The number of participants is limited to 25. The tuition and fees for the seminar is 625 Euros in total. This amount includes participation in the seminar, accommodation, and meals as well.
Seminar Prerequisites: There are no particular prerequisites for the participants. Selection will be based on the letter of interest, which is expected to address the student’s dissertation research interests and the fit of this seminar with their doctoral studies. For those participants who do not want to receive course credit, the letter of interest is expected to indicate their research interests and the reason why they want to participate in the seminar. The letter of interest should be between 1000 and 1500 words. Letters of interest should be sent to Berna Tari (tberna@bilkent.edu.tr) as an attachment to an e-mail message. The deadline for applications is April 6, 2007.
Program Summary: The program consists of lectures, panels, and meetings. A reading list will be sent to the participants after they register. The participants will come to the seminar ready to make a brief presentation of their research project. At the end of the seminar, they will make another presentation that will indicate how their research project will be modified based on the inspirations from the seminar. Students will be evaluated based on their presentations, participation, and the capacity shown in enriching their perspective. The program is below.
SEMINAR PROGRAM
Monday, June 11
09.00 – 09.20 Welcome
09.20 – 18.00 Participant presentations
Participants present their research projects
18.10 – 18.30 Faculty appointments
Participants make appointments with faculty to discuss their
projects.
Tuesday, June 12
09.00 – 12.40 Sidney Levy
‘Integrating Information: A Multi-Method Approach to Situational
Analysis’
12.40 – 13.00 Meetings with the faculty
Participants meet with faculty to get individual feedback.
14.30 – 18.10 Elizabeth Shove
‘Consumption and Practice; the Design of Everyday Life’
18.10 – 18.30 Meetings with the faculty
Wednesday, June 13
09.00 – 12.40 Russell Belk
‘Sharing, Gift Giving, and Commodity Exchange’
14.00 – 15.00 Meetings with the faculty
15.00 – 18.40 Eric Arnould
‘Identity, Community, and Value in Consumer Culture Theory’
Thursday, June 14
09.00 – 12.40 Douglas Holt
‘Sociology of Consumption; Critical Approaches to Consumption’
12.40 – 13.00 Meetings with the faculty
14.30 – 18.10 Søren Askegaard
‘Structuration of Consumption’
18.10 – 18.30 Meetings with the faculty
Friday, June 15
09.00 – 12.40 Richard Wilk
‘Consumption History and Branding’
12.40 – 19.00 Trip to the museum & free time
Saturday, June 16
09.00 – 12.40 Güliz Ger
‘Globalization and Consumption’
14.00 – 17.40 Arvind Rajagopal
‘Politics of Consumption’
Sunday, June 17
09.00 – 10.30 Faculty panel
Faculty discusses the emergent issues of CCT and different
approaches to studying consumption.
10.40 – 15.30 Final presentations
Participants briefly present how they intend to further their
projects.
15.40 – 17.00 Faculty panel
Faculty gives general feedback to participants and
deliberates on how to publish research papers.