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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006
PARLIAMENTARY ROOM, 4070 VILAS HALL
9:00 - 10:15:	OPENING ADDRESS
"Citizens, Consumers, and the Good Society"      Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego
Moderator: Lewis Friedland, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15 - 10:30:	BREAK
10:30 - 12:00:	NEW CONSUMPTION AND NEW MEDIA
"Mobilizing Global Social Justice Responsibility-Taking"      Michele Micheletti, Karlstad University, and Dietlind Stolle, McGill University
"Dolls and Politics"      Guliz Ger, Bilkent University
"Online Political Consumption"      Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
Moderator: Michael Xenos, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00 - 1:15:	DIALOGUE LUNCHEON - NAFZIGER ROOM, 5055 VILAS
1:15 - 2:45:	LIBERATING THE CITIZEN-CONSUMER
"The Carnivalesque Dimensions of Contemporary Consumer Culture and their Implications for the Politics of Consumption"      Craig Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Can Consumer Citizens Escape the Market?"      Eric J. Arnould, University of Arizona,Tucson
"Why Not Share Rather Than Own?"      Russell Belk, University of Utah
Moderator: Michelle Nelson, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
2:45 - 3:15:	REFRESHMENT BREAK - NAFZIGER ROOM, 5055 VILAS
3:15 - 4:45:	SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY & POLITICAL CONSUMERISM
"Political Brands and Consumer Citizens"      Margaret Scammell, London School of Economics
"Logo Logic: The Ups and Downs of Branded Political Communication"      Lance Bennett and Taso Lagos, University of Washington
"Patagonia Politics: Brands as Agents of Political Change?"      Douglas Holt, University of Oxford
Moderator: Douglas McLeod, University of Wisconsin-Madison
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006
PARLIAMENTARY ROOM, 4070 VILAS HALL
9:00 - 10:30:	CONSUMPTION, COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
"Cold War Shoppers: Consumerism as State Project"      Matthew Hilton, University of Birmingham
"Buying Into Downtown Retail: The Centrality of Retail to Postwar Urban Renewal in American Cities"      Eizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
"Who Looks After the Citizen Interest in Media and Communication?"      Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics
Moderator: Elizabeth Covington, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:30 - 10:45:	BREAK
10:45 - 12:00:	CLOSING ADDRESS
"In Defense of Consumer Critique: Re-visiting the Consumption Debates of the 20th Century"      Juliet Schor, Boston College
Moderator: Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin-Madison