{"id":207,"date":"2010-10-27T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=207"},"modified":"2010-10-27T19:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:43:45","slug":"conference-elite-formation-consumption-and-urban-spaces-tagung-26-27-11-10-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces (Tagung), 26. – 27.11.10, Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces (Tagung)<\/p>\n

Cultural Perspectives on African Decolonization<\/h3>\n

During the second half of the twentieth century the African continent was shaped not only by political but also by social and cultural change and crisis. In the rapidly growing cities, new social spaces and groups emerged. These actors often portrayed themselves as \u2018modern\u2019, and their emerging social practice not only mirrored this change but also played an active part in moving the boundaries of social distinction in colonial societies \u2013 between new elites, traditional elites, urban middle classes and workers as well as Europeans. This transcending of boundaries can be explored in many different ways. New marketing strategies for consumer products and luxury goods, promising a career, success, and high social status, aimed at urban elites and middle classes. Political imaginations were debated in the press; in clubs and associations an emerging collective identity could be negotiated. New cultural codes in language, clothing, behavior, leisure time and sociability evolved, at times challenging the colonial order. Focusing on the practice and discourse of African actors, the conference looks at decolonization not only as a political but also as a profoundly cultural process, and seeks connections between both approaches. The conference will be held in English.<\/p>\n

Visitors are welcome. We kindly ask you to announce your participation by sending a mail to josephinefriedrich@gmx.de by 15th November 2010.<\/p>\n

The conference is organized in cooperation with the International Research Centre “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History”.<\/p>\n

Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, 26.11.2010<\/p>\n

16:00-17:30: Enrolment<\/p>\n

17:30-18:30: Address of welcome and introduction: Andreas Eckert\/ Regina Finsterh\u00f6lzl\/ Daniel T\u00f6dt (Berlin)<\/p>\n

18:30-20:00: Keynote by Sean Nixon (Essex): Cultural Intermediaries or Market Device? Some thoughts on conceptualizing advertising<\/p>\n

20:00-22:00: Reception<\/p>\n

Saturday, 27.11.2010<\/p>\n

10:00-12:00: Panel 1 \u201cConsumption and Advertising\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Discussant: Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt)<\/p>\n

Andrea Scheibler (Oxford): Materiality and sociality in late colonial Nairobi: consumption, contestation and the Tai Tai class<\/p>\n

Regina Finsterh\u00f6lzl (Berlin): Advertising, decolonization and social change in Ghana, 1940-1970<\/p>\n

Simon Heap (Woking): Marketing Modernity. Star Beer in Nigeria, 1949-1966<\/p>\n

12:00-13:00: lunch break<\/p>\n

13:00-15:00: Panel 2 \u201cElite formation and sociability\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Discussant: Michael Pesek (Berlin)<\/p>\n

Jean-Herve Jezequel (Bordeaux): Living like and \u201aEducated Man\u2018. Ponty Graduates\u2019 cultural repertoires in Colonial West Africa, 1930s-1950s<\/p>\n

Daniel T\u00f6dt (Berlin): \u2018Quelle sera notre place dans le monde de demain?\u2019 – Discourse and Sociability of the \u2018\u00c9volu\u00e9s\u2019 in Belgian Congo, 1945-1960<\/p>\n

Dominique Connan (Florenz\/Paris): \u2018Multiracialism\u2019 and the Socialization of the African Elites in Late Colonial Nairobi: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the United Kenya Club, 1946-1963<\/p>\n

15:00-15:30 coffee break<\/p>\n

15:30-17:00: Panel 3 \u201cStaging Decolonization? Urban spaces of change\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Discussant: Andreas Eckert (Berlin)<\/p>\n

Jinny Prais (New York): \u2018Do Gold Coast Youth Think?\u2019 The Struggle to Define a New Urban Aesthetic and Modernity in Colonial Accra, 1930s<\/p>\n

Susann Baller (Basel): Urban Youth and Decolonization in Senegal: Sport and Culture Clubs in the 1950s and 1960s<\/p>\n

17:00-17:30: coffee break<\/p>\n

17:30-18:30: Final comments by Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Liverpool\/Berlin)<\/p>\n

Contact information:<\/p>\n

Regina Finsterh\u00f6lzl \/ Daniel T\u00f6dt
\nHumboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin
\nregina.finsterhoelzl@staff.hu-berlin.de
\ndaniel.toedt@staff.hu-berlin.de
\nTel: +49-(0)30-2093-4984
\nFax: +49-(0)30-2093-4893<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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