| 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 |
