The first seminar in the 2025 Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) on-line seminar programme will be taking place on Monday 24 February 2025 (UK times)
Find out more here: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
The programme on 24 February is:
10.00 Seminar opens – welcome
10.05 – 10.35 Nada Elnahla, Maynooth University, Ireland, ‘Canadian Tire “Funny” Money’
10.40 – 11.10 David Magalhães, University of Coimbra, Portugal, ‘When trade’s needs are stronger than legal dogmas. Aestimatum and the Roman roots of “sale or return” ’
11.10 – 11.20 Break
11.20 – 11.50 Rebecca Carrai, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Italy, ‘Forgotten Bodies: Women and IKEA’s Corporate Settings (1960s-80s)’
11.55 -12.25 Fawzeyah Alsabah, UCL, UK, ‘Her West End: Exploring London’s West End Department Store through the Voices of Arabian Gulf Women, 1960-onward’
Participation is free and open to all, but registration is required. If you would like to attend this or any of the other seminars, please e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk specifying which dates you would like to attend.
For further information, including programme and abstracts, please see: https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/2025-2/
or e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Image credit: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005.