Speakers
Dr. Anne Cronin is senior lecturer at the Lancaster University (Sociology Department) and a member of the Centre for Gender and Womens' Studies and the Material Culture and Consumption Group. She is mainly interested in consumer culturem advertising, material and visual culture. In 2000, she published Advertising and Consumer Citizenship: Gender, Images and Rights and in 2004 Advertising Myths: The Strange Half-Lives of Images and Commodities.
Marga Altena is a historian of visual culture and works as a researcher, teacher and publicist. Having completed her studies in art history and classical archeology, Marga Altena specialized in the history of photography and film. Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled Visuele strategieën. Foto’s en films van fabrieksarbeidsters in Nederland (1890-1919), Visual Strategies: Photos and Films of Female Factory Workers in the Netherlands (1890-1919), (Amsterdam 2003), was carried out at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has been teaching gender history and visual culture at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Free University Amsterdam. She is presently engaged in a research project on the construction of ethnic difference in Dutch, British, and Canadian news media in the 1886-1928 period.
Kees Ribbens is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam, which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Furthermore, he is research associate of the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He graduated cum laude in modern history in 1991 (University of Nijmegen). Ribbens received his PhD degree in 2001 (Utrecht University). During his participation in the Dutch graduate school of cultural history (Huizinga Instituut), 1996-2000, he visited Indiana University, USA and Universitetet i Oslo, Norway. He has worked as researcher and teacher at the University of Nijmegen and the Utrecht University. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a postdoc fellow at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
February 12, 2009