2011 The Architecture of Shopping

07 Sept Susan Strasser, Department of History,

“Woolworth to Wal-Mart: Mass merchandising and the changing American culture of consumption”

14 Sept Sandy Isenstadt, Department of Art History,

“The spaces of shopping”

21 Sept Anne Krulikowski, Department of History,

“The shop around the corner: Neighborhood stores in the American City”

28 Sept MEET IN THE MARK SAMUELS LASNER COLLECTION, Room 116A, UD Library
Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Researcher,

“Collecting as shopping”

05 Oct David Ames, Center for Historic Architecture and Design,

“The shopping center as retail pinball machine, and you are the ball”

12 Oct Sharron Lennon, Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies,

“Online visual merchandising: Perceptions are everything”

19 Oct Hye-Shin Kim, Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies,

“Shopping beyond buying: Shopping as entertainment”

26 Oct J. Ritchie Garrison, Department of History,

“The architectural and material politics of markets and shopping, 1700-2000”

02 Nov Amy Powis, Department of English,

“From trading posts to Trader Joe’s: How shopping for food moves American culture”

09 Nov Tim Murray, Special Collections, University Library,

“Catalog shopping from Burpee to Sears and everything in between”

16 Nov David Suisman, Department of History,

“(Way) before MP3s: The origins of shopping for music”

30 Nov David Shearer, Department of History,

“Shopping in the Soviet Union”

07 Dec Lance Winn, Department of Art,

“Shopzilla and the Amazon forest! The dialectics of consumption