Thank you for making the conference great! We’ll meet next in Gothenburg or Oslo.

A number of participants appeared in media during the conference. Here are links to a few appearances:

• Bjørn Erik Thon and Bertil Elenius on digital television, >>Radio Vega.
• Steve Woolgar on consumers and citizens, >> Hufvudstadsbladet.
• Marianne Pipping Ekström and Inger M. Jonsson on women dining alone, >>Finfood.

Edda Müller’s key address is now available >> here.
Marianne Paasi’s presentation on FP7 is now available >>here.

There are pictures from the conference on Flickr, >>see here! Please feel free to add your own pictures with the tag “consumer2007″.

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Key speakers:

Professor Steve Woolgar, Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Woolgar has published widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems and social theory. homepage

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Professor Frank Trentmann, School of History, Classics and Archeology, University of London, Director of Cultures of Consumption research programme. Trentmann focuses on consumption, civil society, and political culture in the modern period. homepage

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Prof. Dr. Edda Müller, Executive Director Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. - vzbv since its foundation, January 2001, Vice-Chairman of the Council for Sustainable Development and Member of Stiftung Warentes’s Management Board. homepage

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Conference announcement

The Nordic Forum for Consumer Research is a committee set down by the Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Consumer Affairs to foster consumer research of relevance to consumer policy and to broaden the interaction between consumer researchers and policy-makers in government, agencies, and organizations. We now have the pleasure to inform you that thanks to the support from the Nordic Council of Ministers, a consumer policy research conference, entitled Towards a New Consumer? Towards a New Consumer Policy? will take place in Helsinki on October 3-5, 2007.

The programme and schedule of the conference are outlined on this website. Note the deadline of March 1, 2007, for the submission of abstracts.

We sincerely hope that you will participate in and contribute to the conference by a presentation of your research. We also very much welcome suggestions of relevant topics for special sessions at the conference, and not least of issues suited for round-table discussions between policy-makers and researchers.

There will be further announcements concerning the conference, but we hope that you and your colleagues will already mark these dates in your calendar.

Sincerely,

Folke Ölander
Chairman, Programme Committee

Thank you for making the conference great! We’ll meet next in Gothenburg or Oslo.

A number of participants appeared in media during the conference. Here are links to a few appearances:

• Bjørn Erik Thon and Bertil Elenius on digital television, >>Radio Vega.
• Steve Woolgar on consumers and citizens, >> Hufvudstadsbladet.
• Marianne Pipping Ekström and Inger M. Jonsson on women dining alone, >>Finfood.

Edda Müller’s key address is now available >> here.
Marianne Paasi’s presentation on FP7 is now available >>here.

There are pictures from the conference on Flickr, >>see here! Please feel free to add your own pictures with the tag “consumer2007″.

____________________

Key speakers:

Professor Steve Woolgar, Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Woolgar has published widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems and social theory. homepage

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Professor Frank Trentmann, School of History, Classics and Archeology, University of London, Director of Cultures of Consumption research programme. Trentmann focuses on consumption, civil society, and political culture in the modern period. homepage

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Prof. Dr. Edda Müller, Executive Director Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. - vzbv since its foundation, January 2001, Vice-Chairman of the Council for Sustainable Development and Member of Stiftung Warentes’s Management Board. homepage

____________________

Conference announcement

The Nordic Forum for Consumer Research is a committee set down by the Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Consumer Affairs to foster consumer research of relevance to consumer policy and to broaden the interaction between consumer researchers and policy-makers in government, agencies, and organizations. We now have the pleasure to inform you that thanks to the support from the Nordic Council of Ministers, a consumer policy research conference, entitled Towards a New Consumer? Towards a New Consumer Policy? will take place in Helsinki on October 3-5, 2007.

The programme and schedule of the conference are outlined on this website. Note the deadline of March 1, 2007, for the submission of abstracts.

We sincerely hope that you will participate in and contribute to the conference by a presentation of your research. We also very much welcome suggestions of relevant topics for special sessions at the conference, and not least of issues suited for round-table discussions between policy-makers and researchers.

There will be further announcements concerning the conference, but we hope that you and your colleagues will already mark these dates in your calendar.

Sincerely,

Folke Ölander
Chairman, Programme Committee