CHORD 2025 On-line Seminars on the History of Retailing and Distribution
Call for Papers, deadline – 10 January 2025
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites submissions to its 2025 on-line seminars on ‘Retailing and Distribution History’: we welcome papers focusing on any aspect of retailing and / or distribution history and on any period or geographical area. We invite both experienced and new speakers, including students and / or speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are very welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submitting their proposal (please see contact details below).
We invite both 20-minute papers and 10-minute ‘work in progress’ presentations. All papers will be followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Seminars will take place online, and we anticipate that each seminar will include two or three papers. To facilitate international, as well as UK, participation, three of the seminars will take place between c. 10.00 and 12.00 UK time and two between c. 14.00 and 16.00 UK time.
Seminar contributors will be invited to submit posts based on their contributions to the CHORD blog. You can read previous blogs here:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/category/conference-blogs/
The proposed 2025 dates are:
Monday 24 February 2025 c. 10.00 and 12.00 UK time
Monday 24 March 2025 c. 14.00 and 16.00 UK time
Monday 28 April 2025 c. 10.00 and 12.00 UK time
Monday 19 May 2025 c. 14.00 and 16.00 UK time
Monday 23 June 2025 c. 10.00 and 12.00 UK time
To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c.300 to 400 words, specifying your preferred dates and whether you are proposing a 10 or a 20 minute presentation (as a Word or similar file. Please do not submit a pdf file) to Laura Ugolini, at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by Friday 10 January 2025.
For further information, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk or see here:
https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/2025/
Image: Detail of Jean Michelin, The Baker’s Cart, 1656.Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.59).