BEYOND THE SHOP; CHORD Workshop and Call for Papers

BEYOND THE SHOP, 1500-2000:
Acquisition and Exchange Outside the Formal Market

2 April 2008

CHORD invites all interested researchers to a workshop devoted to the discussion of selling, acquiring and exchanging commodities and services outside the ‘formal’ retail market. Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Gifting and Lending
* Charity
* Hawking and Street Selling
* Theft
* Barter and Exchange
* Self-provisioning, Making and Mending
* The relationship between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ markets
* Garage Sales, Jumble Sales, Car Boot Sales ...

The workshop will be held at:
the University of Wolverhampton, UK

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 18 January 2008. Fee: £ 9. For further information, please contact Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Or see: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/exchange.html