I was privileged to be part of the organizing team of the 2023 Consumer Culture Theory Conference in Lund. Together with the chairs Sofia Ulver, Jacob Östberg, Benjamin Hartmann and coordinator Hossain Shahriar, the 2023 CCT conference in Lund was a success!

I feel honored to be part of the community we call CCT. Inspired by the brilliant work and ideas I’ve heard throughout the conference but also thankful for all the moments of laughter from meeting dear friends. It was a pleasure arranging the conference.

The international CCT conference was held from Tuesday, June 27 to Friday, June 30, 2023 ​at AF-borgen, the epicenter of studentlife in the city since 1851, located on the beautiful Lund University campus in the city of Lund, Sweden.

This year’s theme was “Utopia Revisited” and my highlight was the keynote panel debate entitled ”Utopian and dystopian thinking: Hope, despair and the shaping of the future”. We were able to bring together three wonderful scholars for the debate: Professor Peter Fleming, University of Technology, Sydney (author of The Worst Is Yet To Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide), Professor Sylwia Chrostowska, York University, Toronto (author of Utopia in the Age of Survival Between Myth and Politics), and Craig Thompson, Wisconsin School of Business as the panel moderator.

Please visit www.cctc2023.com to read more about the conference.