Spices and Stockings

Léonard Defrance, Femmes buvant le café (1763), dessus de porte Musée d'Ansembourg, Liège

Léonard Defrance, Women drinking coffee (1763), via Wikimedia Commons

About the workshop

The workshop aims to provide an opportunity to explore, discuss and enrich our understanding of the mechanisms driving consumption and underpinning the formation of different consumer societies in Europe 1600 to 1850 in a transnational and comparative perspective. The ambition is, as the name “Spices and Stockings – Cultures of Consumption in the Periphery” indicates, to highlight consumer cultures in northern and southern Europe, i.e. in the peripheries of the Anglo-Saxon dominance, both in terms of historical context and current research. Our intention is that the workshop will contribute with new knowledge and new perspectives on Early Modern European consumer societies. We encourage you, especially junior scholars, to take the opportunity to present case studies from the “periphery”.

The workshop is part of a larger project that aims to strengthen a network of consumer historians in the North and South of Europe. The meeting in Uppsala is conceived as an occasion to develop questions, issues, perspectives and methods for future work and funding applications. The Workshop is organized within the framework of the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences NOS-HS 2014/2015 Grant for Explorative Workshop.

 

About MIRA

The workshop "Spices and Stockings" is organized by the research group MIRA, a network of early-career female historians, spans three years. It’s members are Dr. Marie Ulväng, Uppsala University, Sweden, Dr. Amelia Almorza Hidalgo, Pablo de Olavide, Spain, Dr. Irene Fattacciu , University of Turin, Italy, Dr. Ragnhild Hutchinson, The Norwegian University College for Agriculture and Rural Development, Norway and Dr. Maj G. Ringgaard, National Museum, Denmark

Uppsala University, Sweden June 12-14, 2015. Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences NOS-HS 2014/2015 Grant for Explorative Workshop.