Fall 2008 HST 290 Conference on Mass Consumption and Marketing in the Cold War Era

November 24, 2008

Panel 1: Youth and Marketing, 1969-1989

Tess Roehrig, “3 Days of Peace, Love and Music”

Sarah Shouse, {Just Say No Campaign}

December 1

Panel 1: Mass Consumption and Cultural Change

Matt Anderson, Byteniks: Counterculture Changes the Face of America Through Personal Computers

Timmy Swiatek, The 1960s: Changing Times and Marketing Lines

Betty Manchester, The Concept that Forever Changed Contraception

Andrew Scott, Social Themes of Advertisements in Men’s Magazines, 1977-1979

December 3

Panel 2: Marketing and the Leisure Sector in the Cold War Era

Jason Attig, Speed, Weed, and Alcohol: NASCAR, Tobacco, and Advertising During the 1970s

Justin Fischetti, James Dean and Celebrity Consumption in the Post War Era

Karla Albertson, Comedy in the Age of Uncertainty: Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live

Panel 3: Image and the Presidency

Casey Braswell, The Change of Advertising Before and After the 1^st Televised Debate

Lynne Walker, Sold to America! Richard M. Nixon