Programme
Friday, May 2, 2008
14.15
Welcome (Christiane Eisenberg, Chairwoman)
14.30 - 18.00
Workshops (to be held in German)
18.00 Dinner
19.00 – 19.30
Introduction
Andreas Gestrich, London / Christiane Eisenberg, Berlin
The Cultural Industries: Structure and Aims of the Conference
19.30 – 20.30
Keynote Lecture
Wray Vamplew, Stirling
Economic Approaches to Sport and Cultural History
Saturday, May 3, 2008
9.00 – 10.45
18th Century: The Rise of Commercial Culture
Chair: Andreas Gestrich, London
Timothy Blanning, Cambridge
The Business of Music and the Status of the Musician in 18th-Century Britain
Ruti Ungar, Berlin/London
The Commercialisation of Honour: Boxing in 18th-Century England
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 13.00
19th Century: Operation of Business in a Modern Class Society
Chair: Andreas Fahrmeir, Frankfurt/M.
Peter Bailey, Indianapolis
British Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure Revisited
Klaus Nathaus, Berlin
Sport Clubs in a Commercial Society – with a Comparative View of the Germany Situation
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.00
20th Century: Modernisation and Expansion of Business
Chair: Christiane Eisenberg, Berlin
Dave Laing, London
The American (Dis-)Connection: British Popular Music after 1950
Dylwin Porter, Leicester
Media and the Business of Sport in 20th-Century Britain
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.15
Early 21st Century: The Cultural Industries as a Political Issue
Chair: André Kaiser, Köln
Franz Brüggemeier, Freiburg
The Creative Industries Concept and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Britain – a Historian's Perspective
18.00 Dinner
19.00-21.00
ADEF General Meeting
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Breakfast / End of Conference