CHARM 2023 Conference Program

Esse quam videri: Marketing history for real

21st Biennial Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM)

1 to 4 June 2023, Duke University, Durham, NC

Thursday, June 1st  
5:00 to 8:00 p.m.Registration
Glaxo Pre Function Area
Welcome to Durham and Duke University!
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.Opening Reception and Welcome
MarketPlace Bar
sponsored by
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History,
Duke University

Welcome remarks by Edward Balleisen,
Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
& Business Historian, Duke University

Dinner
MarketPlace Restaurant
Friday, June 2nd  
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Registration Outside Glaxo Classroom  
8:00 to 8:30 a.m.Breakfast Marketplace Restaurant
Enjoy the breakfast buffet, with reserved seating area for CHARM attendees.
Come as you are ready. 
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.Session 1a– Glaxo Classroom
CHARM meets RIM (Race in the Marketplace)
Chair:
Judy Foster Davis

Political Rhetoric and the Marketing of Racial Resentment:
1960s to Present
Judy Foster Davis
Eastern Michigan University, USA

For the Sake of Peace and Humanity Boycott Nazi Germany: Marketing the
Non-Sectarian Anti-League to Champion Human Rights
Richard A. Hawkins
University of Wolverhampton, UK

Race and Reputation: The Case of Billboard Jackson
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Virginia Tech, USA
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.Session 1b – Meeting Room A
Marketing History in the Arts
Chair:
Mary Ellen Zuckerman

Marketing History of Recorded Success: Evidence from Billboard
Top 100 (1976-2015)
Jiyoon An
Broadwell College of Business and Economics, USA

Firearms in Motion Pictures and Television: Genres, Production Issues,
and Societal and Marketing Consequences**
Terrence Witkowski
California State University, Long Beach, USA

How Printers and the Development of their Technology
Were Part of the Evolution of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Joanne McNeish
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
10:00 to 10:30 a.m.Break Glaxo Pre Function Area 
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Session 2a – Glaxo Classroom  
Advertising History

Chair: Eric Shaw  

Anxiety in Vogue: 100-Year Scoping Review of Mental Health Advertising in Vogue Magazine
Jane Machin Radford University, USA & Dominique Tobbell University of Virginia, USA  

The Creative Side of Rosser Reeves: An Exploration of the Poetry and Fiction of Advertising’s ‘Price of the Hard Sell’
Daniel Marshall Haygood Elon University, USA  

“We Believe in Advertising, and We Believe in TV”: Benton & Bowles on Television in the 1950s-60s
Cynthia B. Meyers College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA  
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Session 2b – Meeting Room A  
Marketing History Potpouri

Chair:  Richard Hawkins
 
History of the Development of the Marketing Discipline in France: The Science of Display in fashion shops between 1900 and 1938**
Caroline Ardelet HESAM University, France & Michel-Pierre Chélini Université d’Artois, France  

Marketing via Shangbang (Business Cliques) in pre-1949 China
Qiang (Tony) Yan
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, USA 
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.Lunch MarketPlace Bar  
Enjoy the lunch buffet.
1:00 to 2:00  p.m.Session 3a – Glaxo Classroom  

Advertising & Marketing Resources & Publications
Chair:
Jacqueline Reid Wachholz
AM (formerly known as Adam Matthew Digital)
Ellie Davey Corrigan, Senior Development Editor
&
Advertising & Society Quarterly (ASQ)
Emma Hymas, Managing Editor

Learn about AM’s advertising and marketing database resources
and online journal ASQ.
2:00 to 2:30 p.m.Break Lounge area outside Glaxo Classoom  
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.Session 4a – Glaxo Classroom
Historical Method and the History of Marketing Thought
Chair
: Karen Fox

What’s So Historical About Historical Marketing?*
Kerryn M. Lyes (PhD Student)
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Forgotten Classics: Principles of Merchandising by Melvin T. Copeland (1924)
Eric H. Shaw
Florida Atlantic University, USA
&
Walter Liu
University of Miami, USA
3:30 to 4:00 p.m.




4:00 to 5:00 PM
Walk to Duke University’s
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Walk is about 15 minutes,
van transportation is available for those in need.

Gallery talk & tour of the Hartman Center’s exhibit:
“’Let’s March Forward Together!’ The Rise of Black Advertising Professionals
and Consumers”
Located in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s
Mary Duke Biddle Exhibit Suite

Walk back to JB Duke Hotel
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.  CHARM Awards Banquet Dinner
Marketplace Restaurant

Stanley C. Hollander Best Paper Award
Presented by Richard A. Hawkins, CHARM President

David D. Monieson Best Student Paper Award
Presented by Richard A. Hawkins, CHARM President

Saturday, June 3rd    
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Registration Glaxo Pre Function Area
8:30 to 9:00 a.m.Breakfast
Marketplace Restaurant
Enjoy the breakfast buffet, with reserved seating area for CHARM attendees.
Come as you are ready.
8:30 to 9:30 a.m.Session 5a – Meeting Room A  
JHRM Editorial Board Meeting
Everyone else gets to sleep in (a little bit)!  

Chair: Richard A. Hawkins, JHRM Editor
9:30 to 11:00 a.m.Session 6a – Glaxo Classroom  
Marketing in the Atomic and Digital Ages

Chair: Joanne McNeish  

Curiosities of the Atomic Age: Information Campaign to Remark Modernity in the World
Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta Universidata Pública de Navarra, Spain  

A Short History of Memevertising
Joe Musicco (PhD Student) Athabaska University & Sheridan College, Canada  

Is the World Wide Web a Brand? How the Web Founders Established the Web’s Early Brand Identity (1989-1999)
Deborah Barcella (PhD Student) Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.Session 6b – Meeting Room A  
Food & Health Marketing

Chair: Terry Witkowski  

The Business of Influence: Food Marketing and Health Professionals in the early 20th Century**
Rachel Greenfield Independent Scholar  

“She Also Serves”: Marketing for Food Conservation During World War One
Mary Ellen Zuckerman SUNY Geneseo, USA  

Lost Archives and Found Voices: Reconstructing the Marketing History of Medical Marijuana in Austria-Hungary
Jure Stojan Inštitut za strateške rešitve, Slovenia
11:00 to 11:30 a.m.Break
Lounge area outside Glaxo Classroom  
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Session 7 a – Glaxo Classroom  
Advertising History

Chair: Walter Liu  

The Integration of the Advertising Function in Marketing within the Philips Company, 1959-1975
Matthias Höfer (PhD Student) University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg  

The Origin of AIDA: Who Invented and Formulated the AIDA Model?
Akinori Iwamoto Kansai University, Japan  
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Session 7b – Meeting Room A  
Consumption History

Chair: Joe Musicco
 
Onnagata: Historicizing the Construction of Consumer Mythology
Yuko Minowa Long Island University, USA  

‘The Very Latest Modom’: The British Commerical Gas Association and Content Marketing in Interwar Britain
Michael Heller Gurdeep Kohli Brunel University, UK  
12:30 to 2:00Awards Luncheon and Annual General Meeting
Marketplace Restaurant  

Annual General Meeting  
2:00 p.m.

2:15 p.m.


3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Time to enjoy Durham or depart for home.

Walking tour participants meet in hotel lobby and depart hotel for downtown.

Taste of Carolina downtown walking and tasting tour
starting from the Durham Visitors Center.
(for those who opted in on the registration form) 

*These papers have been nominated for the David D. Monieson Best Student Paper Award
**These papers have been nominated for the Stanley C. Hollander Best Paper Award