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Welcome to the European Society for Periodical Research. Since its inception in 2009, ESPRit has proven its value as an international network for periodical researchers. We are proud of our inspiring annual conferences which bring together scholars from inside and outside of Europe and of the peer-reviewed Open Access Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) which has entered its seventh year.  Until recently, ESPRit membership has been informal, consisting mainly…

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ESPRit online seminars, Autumn 2021: ‘Crossover influences and local identities of the popular illustrated periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ Autumn series 2021, Session 3 - December 10, 3PM CET: 1) Yelizaveta Raykhlina (New York University), From Paris to the Russian Provinces: Russian-language Fashion Magazines of the late 1830s and 1840s as Domains of Cultural Adaptation and Women’s Entrepreneurship”. This presentation explores the role of the Russian-language il…

ESPRit online seminars, Autumn 2021: ‘Crossover influences and local identities of the popular illustrated periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ Autumn series 2021, Session 2 - November 19, 3PM CET: 1) Susann Liebich (Heidelberg University), A New Zealand ‘quality magazine’: The Monocle, 1937-1939 In May 1937, a new magazine appeared in the New Zealand print market place: The Monocle, using the sub-title ‘New Zealand’s quality magazine’ was the country’s first dedicated men’…

ESPRit online seminars, Autumn 2021: ‘Crossover influences and local identities of the popular illustrated periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ In order to build our online ESPRit community, we are organising a series of one-hour online seminars in collaboration with the ETMIET/KENI team from Panteion University (Athens).  The first series was held in the Spring of 2021. Recordings are available on our website. You are now invited to opening session of the…

In order to build our online ESPRit community, we are organising a series of one-hour online seminars in collaboration with the ETMIET/KENI team from Panteion University (Athens).  Available recordings of past seminars are published on this page. 26 March 2021 (chair: Peter Buse, Liverpool University) Keynote lecture by Victoria Kuttainen (James Cook University, Autralia): “Portholes, Channels, and Seductions: The Messy Affordances of Antipodean Periodical Scholarship” 16 April 2021 (…

Convegno internazionale | International conference L’Europa radicale. Riviste e intellettuali tra Sinistra e Nuova Sinistra 1958-1968 | Radical Europe. Periodicals and intellectuals between Left and New Left 1958-1968 Dipartimento di Studi storici - Università degli Studi di Milano 27 November 2020  online via Microsoft Teams Programme: 9.30 a.m. PADRI E COMPAGNI: PANZIERI, BASSO, PARRI (chair: Daniela Saresella) Giovanni Scirocco (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Raniero Panzie…

Date: Wednesday 11 November 2020  This online event, part of an AHRC-funded impact project marking the centenary of feminist magazine Time and Tide, will explore the status of women in the media and publishing landscape today in conversation with influential female journalists, editors, and publishers, including Polly Toynbee of the Guardian and Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books. Panel 1 – “Women, Politics, and the Press” – will interrogate the status of women in spheres of print jour…

The 9th International ESPRit Conference on 'Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space and Time, Competition and Transfer', which was supposed to be held in Bochum from 16-18 September 2020, has been postponed to 14-16 June 2021.  Instead, we are organising an ESPRit annual meeting and a workshop on periodical studies on 17 September 2020 from 13:00 CET via Zoom.  Programme Times given are CET 13.00 — Annual general meeting (for registered ESPRit memb…

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The Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. It publishes research from a broad range of critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives, including, but not limited to, cultural history, literary studies, art history, gender studies, media studies, history of science and digital humanities. As the official journal of ES…

Bild-Sequenzierung im Journal: Comic, Fotoreportage, Cinéroman und illustrierte Filmzeitschrift 12–13 June 2020, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Organised by the DFG Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature, the Committee for Comics Studies and the Committee for Photography Studies at the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Jan Baetens (Leuven) and Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf (Regensburg) The premise of the workshop is that periodicals, as soon as they are capable…

Book Reviews and Beyond. The Transformations of Literature and Art Criticism in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century Milan, 3-5 juin 2020 Although unquestionably all-pervasive within the history of modern and contemporary press, the ‘review form’ has been to present an understudied practice. In fact, this multi-faceted, cross-disciplinary form that has persistently accompanied the different phases in the evolution of “print-capitalism” has hardly been analysed from a theoret…

This interactive map shows geographical locations of ESPRit committee members, past and future conferences, partner organisations and important resources for periodical research.

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Future States, a nearly carbon-neutral conference (NCNC) hosted by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, is now open for registration. The conference explores the constructive tensions between modernity and nationalism in popular magazines across the globe, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Running from 23 March – 5 April 2020, this is a landmark event in magazine studies, with talks by 35 leading scholars from 15 countries, and multiple Q&As and discussio…

Sara Boezio (University of Warwick)  Peter Buse (University of Liverpool)  Carlotta Castellani (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) Pedro Castelo (Birkbeck College, University of London) Andrea Chiurato (Università IULM)   Michael James Erdman (British Library) Kristin Ewins (Örebro universitet)   Andrea Gremels (Goethe University Frankfurt) Fabio Guidali (Università degli Studi di Milano)  Maaike Koffeman (Ra…

ESPRit was formally registered as a research society with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in 2018. The first annual general meeting decided to put in place a paid membership structure to support our activities as a community of scholars, including an annual conference, postgraduate workshops and bursaries, and the publication of our peer-reviewed online Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS). Paid-up members are granted a vote at the annual general meetings and discounts at future eve…

In December 2022, the European Society for Periodical Research will move its news and mailing list service to Google Groups. The Listserv mailing list will no longer be active. Please join our Google Group if you wish to receive information about our annual conferences, new issues of the Journal for European Periodical Studies and other news concerning ESPRit. Subscribers can also use the Google Group service to exchange information, ask questions, or share new publications with the periodical…

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Fout elected members sit on the ESPRit Board: Chair – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Università IULM) Vice Chair — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Universiteit Gent) Treasurer — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Secretary — Thi…

ESPRit, the European Society for Periodical Research, was founded in 2009 by a group of periodical researchers from Austria, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, and the United States. The aim of the organization is to unite the resources of individual scholars from various disciplines who work with periodicals. Researchers throughout Europe find periodicals of their own and other nations indispensable resources for understanding such practices as the reception of literature, t…