Events at The University of Manchester
  • University home
  • Events
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
  • Conferences
  • Lectures and seminars
  • Performances
  • Events for prospective students
  • Family events
  • All Events

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire - Making tastes, making markets: Cultural intermediaries in the Chinese fine wine market

image
Dates:18 May 2016
Times:16:00 - 17:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Sustainable Consumption Institute
Speaker:Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire
See travel and contact information
Add to your calendar

Other events

  • In category "Seminar"
  • By Sustainable Consumption Institute

Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer of Cultural Production and Consumption, University of Leicester, will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 18 May 2016, entitled 'Making tastes, making markets: Cultural intermediaries in the Chinese fine wine market' the seminar will be in the Penthouse, 10th Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School between 4.00 - 5.30 pm. Coffee and registration from 3.45 pm.

Abstract

Twenty years ago there was a miniscule wine market in China; today China is among the world’s top wine consuming countries. Popular narratives about that transformation typically focus on the Chinese consumer: the spectacular impact of Chinese nouveau-riche fine wine investors; the rapidly growing Chinese middle class and its thirst for wine as a gift, badge, and body of knowledge. Under-examined are the cultural intermediaries who make the market possible, articulating production and consumption by aligning the points of attachment of wine (as product and practice) with those of Chinese cultural values.

Speaker

Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire

Role: Senior Lecturer of Cultural Production and Consumption

Organisation: University of Leicester

Biography: Jennifer Smith Maguire’s research examines the construction of markets, tastes and value. Major conceptual areas of interest include the role of cultural intermediaries as key taste makers; the production and consumption of provenance as a form of value; and the construction of new regimes of good taste. All of these interests—and more—have informed a range of studies set within the worlds of fine wine in Australia, France, the United States, South Africa and China.

Travel and Contact Information

Find event

Penthouse
Manchester Business School West
Manchester

Contact event

Katrina Farrugia

0161 275 0189

sci@manchester.ac.uk

Share / follow event

Contact us

  • +44 (0) 161 306 6000

Find us

The University of Manchester
Oxford Rd
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK

Connect with the University

  • Facebook page for The University of Manchester
  • Twitter page for The University of Manchester
  • YouTube page for The University of Manchester
  • Google+ page for The University of Manchester
  • Pinterest page for The University of Manchester

  • Privacy /
  • Copyright notice /
  • Accessibility /
  • Freedom of information /
  • Charitable status /
  • Royal Charter Number: RC000797
  • Close menu
  • Home
    • Featured events
    • Today's events
    • The Whitworth events
    • Manchester Museum events
    • Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre events
    • Martin Harris Centre events
    • The John Rylands Library events
    • Exhibitions
    • Conferences
    • Lectures and seminars
    • Performances
    • Events for prospective students
    • Family events
    • All events