{"id":2249,"date":"2009-09-24T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:18:38","slug":"conference-understanding-markets-information-institutions-and-history-30-31102009-wilmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions and History, 30.-31.10.2009, Wilmington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A conference to recognize the contributions of Ernest Dichter<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ernest-dichter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> <\/strong>(Web)<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>and to celebrate the <strong>opening for his business records at the Hagley Museum and Library<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagley.lib.de.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> (Web)<\/a>. Sponsored by the <strong>Hagley Museum and Library <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong><strong>German Historical Institute, Washington DC <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghi-dc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Web)<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 30 and 31, 2009, in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagley.org\/library\/center\/conferences\/poster\/2009-135-PRESS-dichter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference-Poster (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Programme<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, October 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:00 Coffee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>8:30 Opening Remarks<br \/>\nHartmut Berghoff, German Historical Institute: From Practical Know-how to Science-based Management Tool: The Emergence of Modern Marketing in the 20th Century<br \/>\n9:30 <strong>Panel 1: Generations and Paradigms<\/strong><br \/>\nGerulf Hirt, Georg-August-Universitat G\u00f6ttingen: Caught Between Goebbels and Dichter: German Ad Experts from National Socialism to the Early Bonn Republic<!--more--><br \/>\nKenneth Lipartito, Florida International University: The Politics of Market Knowledge in Post World War II America<br \/>\nRegina Lee Blaszczyk, University of Pennsylvania and Hagley Museum &amp; Library: Psyched over Synthetics: Ernest Dichter, the DuPont Company and the Boomer Consumer<br \/>\nSean Nixon, University of Essex: Understanding the Ordinary Housewife: Advertising and Consumer Research in Britain 1948-67<br \/>\nComment: Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12:00 Lunch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1:00 Keynote Address<br \/>\nThomas Dichter (independent consultant &#8211; international development): Market Research as practiced by Ernest Dichter &#8211; Science or Art?<br \/>\n1:30 <strong>Panel 2: Marketing Products<\/strong><br \/>\nRoy Church, University of East Anglia: &#8218;Is the doctor in?&#8216; The Changing Role of Salesman in the US Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century<br \/>\nGregory A. Donofrio, University of Minnesota: Self-service: How Gas Stations were Marketed to Women<br \/>\nIngo K\u00f6hler, G\u00f6ttingen University: Recognizing Car Market Realities: Marketing, PR and Market Research of the German Automobile Industry in the 1970s<br \/>\nComment: Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3:30 Break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4:00 <strong>Panel 3: Uncertainty<\/strong><br \/>\nAlexander Engel, Institut f\u00fcr Wirtschafts-und Sozialgeschichte Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t: Into the Blue: Trying to Sell Indian Indigo in Traditional and Modern European Markets, 1780-1910<br \/>\nJamie Pietruska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cotton Guessers: Crop Forecasters and Rationalization of Uncertainty in the American Cotton Market, 1894-1905<br \/>\nAlexia Yates, University of Chicago: Why is There No MLS in France? Information and Intermediaries in the Parisian Housing Market in 19th and 20th Centuries<br \/>\nComment: Uwe Spiekermann, German Historical Institute, Washington DC<br \/>\n6:00 Reception<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:00 Dinner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:00 Coffee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>8:30<strong> Panel 4: Gathering Knowledge<\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel J. Robinson, University of Western Ontario: Letter Writing, Market Research, and Patent Medicines, 1880-1930<br \/>\nJosh Lauer, University of New Hampshire: Making the Ledgers Talk: Credit Management and the Origins of Retail Data Mining, 1920-1940<br \/>\nKerstin Br\u00fcckweh, German Historical Institute, London: \u201cBeware, you could be a target.\u201d A History of Consumer Classification in Britain<br \/>\nComment: Susan Strasser, University of Delaware<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:30 Break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>11:00 <strong>Panel 5: States and Markets<\/strong><br \/>\nS\u00e9verine Antigone Marin, University of Strasbourg: Introducing Small Firms to the International Markets: The Debates Over the Commercial Museums in France and Germany, 1880-ca.1910<br \/>\nStefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary University of London: How do States Understand Markets and Consumers? The Uses of Market Research in British Government Departments, 1920-1940<br \/>\nPatrick Hyder Patterson, University of California, San Diego: The Bad Science and the Black Arts: The Reception of Marketing in Socialist Eastern Europe<br \/>\nComment: Jan Logemann, German Historical Institute<br \/>\n1:00 Closing Comments: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University and Hagley Museum and Library<br \/>\nFor<strong> further info,<\/strong> please contact Carol Lockman at clockman#hagley.org  or 302-658-2400, ext. 243.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conference to recognize the contributions of Ernest Dichter (Web), and to celebrate the opening for his business records at the Hagley Museum and Library (Web). 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