conference cfp: Clone Towns?

CHORD Conference Call for Papers

Clone Towns?

The High Street in Historical Perspective



10 and 11 September 2008

University of Wolverhampton, UK



CHORD invites submissions for a conference devoted to exploring the changing nature of the high street, from the medieval to the contemporary period, in Britain and elsewhere.

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):

· Shops and Selling

· Buildings and Architecture

· Window shopping, Strolling and Leisure

· Globalisation and Branding

· High street businesses

· Lighting, Transport and 'Improvement'

· High street fashions

· Crime and Disorder

· The Impact of Out-of-town Shopping



Please send proposals (including title and c.200 words abstract) to the address below by 4 April 2008. For further information, please see:



http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/clones.html



or contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.

E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk