10:00-10:30 Opening and Welcome Address
10:30-12:00 Introductory Keynotes:
Eric Arnould (Syddansk Universitet, Odense), “My Favorite Things” in Consumer Research: What Has Changed since the 1980s?
Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main): The Values of Things: “Actual,” Symbolic, Emotional, ... – Fuzziness and Uncertainties
LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:20 Global Aspects:
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick): Printed to Impress: Indian Cotton Textiles in Afro-Eurasia before the European East India Companies
John Styles (University of Hertfordshire): Innovation and Obsolescence: European Textiles for the Body and the Household, 1400-1760
COFFEE BREAK
15:40-16:20 Object biographies:
Karin Dannehl (University of Wolverhampton): Industry‘s Favorite: an Example of Hollowware Production and Supply from Early Eighteenth- Century England
16:20-17:00 Favorite Gifts:
Christina Janine Maegraith (Newnham College, Cambridge): Communal Favourite Things: Exchange and the Choice of Gifts in Seventeenth-Century Bohemia
Saturday, December 13, 2014
9:00-10:20 Gendered Objects:
Renata Ago (Università degli Studi di Roma „La Sapienza“): Successful Men and Their Homes in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Gabriela Signori (Universität Konstanz):
Ringomania: Ring Production and Consumption in Late Medieval Konstanz
COFFEE BREAK
10:40-12:00 Smell, Taste, and Touch:
Asa S. Mittman (California State University, Chico): Touching the Past/Being Touched by the Past
Otto Gecser (ELTE, Budapest): Some Like It Hot: The Preference for Piquant Food between the Middle Ages and Modern Times
LUNCH BREAK
13:30-14:10 Things and Identity:
Joanita Vroom (Universiteit Leiden): The Unbearable Brokenness of Artefacts: Dining Utensils as Social Markers in the Byzantine World (ca. 10th-15th c.)
14:10-14:50 Favorite Spiritual Materiality:
Denis Renevey (Université de Lausanne): The Religious Materiality of the Name of Jesus
14:50-15:30 Favorite Images of Favorite Things:Practices – New Theories?
Keith Moxey (Columbia University, New York): Thingly Time
Followed by a final discussion