Call for Papers The Spaces of Luxury: Places, Spaces and Geographies from the Renaissance to the Present Call for Papers

University of Warwick, London 5-7 February 2015 We live in a world obsessed by luxury. More than ever, ‘luxury’ retains substantial importance in the economic, social and cultural life of the West and increasingly in the ‘emerging economies’ of Asia. Yet, luxury is not just a construct of affluent contemporary societies. Luxury as a concept and practice has a long, complex and well documented role in history as well. Over the past two years, the Leverhulme-funded International Network ‘Lux..