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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…