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08 October 2010: Sean Nixon to give keynote at ‘Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces’ conference

Sean's talk is entitled Cultural Intermediaries or Market Device? Conceptualising Advertising and is part of a workshop 'focusing on the practice and discourse of African actors, looking at decolonization not only as a political but also as a profoundly cultural process, and seeks connections between both approaches. Possible topics include advertising messages of marketing experts; the local appropriation of European consumer goods; social spaces of the urban elite and middle classes; places of sociability in the cities and debates about cultural developments and political events.'