Upcoming Events

Mercredi 7 février, Bibliothèque Jacques Seebacher, Université Paris Cité, Campus des Grands Moulins, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris, bâtiment A, 2e étage, 16h-19h    Nathalie Simonnot (chercheur du ministère de la Culture, directrice du laboratoire de recherche de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles) : « Les revues muséales : un objet de recherche polymorphe »/ « Museum magazines: a polymorphous object of research »   Les r…

Call for Papers ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies 12th International ESPRit Conference (Urbino, 2024) 11 September 2024 Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Deadline for the applications: 8 March 2024 In conjunction with the 12th ESPRit Conference “Periodicals: S.T.E.A.M. Ahead!”, a postgraduate workshop will be held on 11th September. The workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic pertaining to periodicals from any historical period, geographical…

From 11-13 September 2024, ESPRit will convene its Twelfth International Conference at the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo to focus on the theme of PERIODICALS: S.T.E.A.M. AHEAD! In periodicals, the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (“S.T.E.M.”) and the Arts are imbricated with one another (“S.T.E.A.M.”) in both material and theoretical terms. The history of journals and magazines runs parallel to the industrial and scientific revolutions.&n…

Date: 27 October 2023 Venue: Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade We cordially invite you to the conference "Between Distant and Close Reading – Periodical Studies and Humanities in the 21st Century," which will be held at the Library of the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade. The conference program will be live streamed via the Institute's Facebook page. This event is a collaborative initiative of the Department of Periodicals in the History of Serbian Literature and Culture…

ESPRit ‘Periodicals and the Law’ Network (P&LN) online seminar series This seminar series will initially be organised during the 2023-2024 academic year by Aled Jones and Gioula Koutsopanagou, supported by a sub-group comprising Mara Logaldo and Nora Ramtke. Its purpose is to create a network for the creation of collaborative, transnational and comparative work on press regulation and press practices in print and visual material in and across different national contexts with respect to the…

We are inviting you to an online seminar on Friday, 12 January 2024, at 12.30pm CET. The seminar will feature the following papers: Dr Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire, UK): “Regional Magazines: A research Agenda” What happens to our idea of the magazine when we take it out of the city and into the provinces? This paper raises some research questions about magazines focused not on the international, the national or the local, but on those administrative units in betwee…

This series of work-in-progress sessions will be led by colleagues contributing to the Brill Handbook of Transnational Periodical Research, edited by Marianne Van Remoortel and Fionnuala Dillane, which is planned for publication in 2025. Seminar participants will each speak for 8-10 minutes on the challenges of ‘transnational’ work and on questions that their work-in-progress has raised to date. The workshops aim to deepen and enrich understandings of what we mean by transnational periodical re…

Call for Papers ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies 11th International ESPRit Conference (Leeds, 27-29 June 2023) Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK Deadline 28 February 2023 Visit the conference website: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/conferences/11-international-esprit-conference/ Postgraduate students working on any topic concerning newspapers, magazines and other periodicals from any historical period, geographical origin, and cultural context a…

In order to build our online ESPRit community, we are organising a series of online seminars in collaboration with the ETMIET/KENI team from Panteion University (Athens).  Recordings of past seminars are available under Resources. The programme for 2022-2023 is as follows:   8 December 2022, 6pm CET: RSVP/ESPRit Online Seminar on The Foreign Language Press Diana Cooper-Richet (Université Paris-Saclay): "The Transfopress network (2012-2022): object, activities, publi…

Call for Papers 11th International ESPRit Conference Periodicals and Belonging Time and venue: 27-29 June 2023, Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK Visit our website: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/events/conferences/11-international-esprit-conference/ The 11th International ESPRit conference will be held in Leeds, UK, on the theme of Periodicals and Belonging. This fruitful and timely theme is designed to encourage discussions and collaborations on the ways that id…

On March 3rd, at 4pm CET, we are organising an online seminar with the team from the Kassák Museum–Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest who hosted the 2022 ESPRit conference. Abstracts Gábor Dobó, 'Comrades and Censors: Tracing Implied and Actual Readers of Radical Periodicals During the Interwar Period' This presentation examines the readership and reading practices of Hungarian working-class communities in Budapest, New York City, and Chicago during the interwar period, with a particular foc…

On February 3rd 2023, at 3pm CET, ESPRit is organising an online seminar with the research group Spaces of Translation from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Nottingham Trent University. The members of the research team (Alison E. Martin, Marina Popea, Dana Steglich, and Andrew Thacker) will share some of the results from the project. Here is the abstract of their presentation: Our project studies a small constellation of important literary and cultural magazi…

On January 20th 2023, at 3pm CET, ESPRit is organising an online seminar on new computational approaches to periodical studies. The following speakers will shed their light on this topic:  Thomas Smits (Antwerp University): 'Distant Viewing the Illustrated World of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1900' Kaspar Beelen (Alan Turing Institute, UK), 'Mining Victorian Metadata. A computational analysis of historical press directories' Ben Lee (University of Washington), 'Newspaper Navigator…

ESPRit and RSVP are delighted to welcome colleagues from TransfoPress, the Transnational network for the study of foreign language press from the 18th-20th century (see www.chcsc.uvsq.fr/transfopress-english) for an online seminar on the Foreign Language Press. The seminar will be approx 90 minutes long and will include four 15 min presentations by members of the Transfopress network followed by Q&A and discussion. The seminar is free and all are welc…

Ghent University, Belgium | 14 – 15 September 2023 en francais Call for Papers In partnership with Antwerp University (Belgium), Gothenburg University (Sweden), Leuven University (Belgium) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) (Belgium) The history of feminism and the history of feminist literature are often studied in separate disciplines, though in reality they are closely entwined. To explore the connections and intersections between these two disciplines, this conference looks at th…

For the first time in East-Central Europe, the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) convenes its 2022 (10th) international conference in Budapest, Hungary, to focus on the following theme: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press. Date: 7–9 September 2022 Venue: Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest and online (Zoom) Confere…

The third ESPRit online seminar series takes as its general theme ‘sources beyond the periodical text’. It launches on 8 April 2022 with an opening lecture by Filippos Tsiboglou, Director General of the National Library of Greece, followed by two research presentations (by Zsuzsa Török and Levente T. Szabó) on 13 May. The third session, to be held on 17 June 2022 at 3 PM CET, featured the following contributions:    Nora Ramtke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)…

The third ESPRit online seminar series takes as its general theme ‘sources beyond the periodical text’. It launched on 8 April 2022 with an opening lecture by Filippos Tsiboglou, Director General of the National Library of Greece. The second session, held on 13 May 2022 at 3 PM CET, featured two research presentations:  Zsuzsa Török, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest, ‘Sources for Anonymous Contributors to Periodicals: The Case of the Hungar…

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Filippos Tsimpoglou, General Director of the National Library of Greece will launch the Third ESPRit Online Seminar Series, on the general theme ‘Sources Beyond the Periodical Text’. The opening lecture will be held on 8 April, 2022 at 3PM CET via Zoom. ‘Expanding the services of the National Library of Greece to researchers, public, libraries, society and next generations’ In 2014 the National Library of Greece started a transformation process wit…

The European Society for Periodical Research in conjunction with the  Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is excited to announce  Multilingualism and Periodical Studies. A Half-day Virtual Workshop 31 March 2022, 3pm-6pm CET   This two-part online workshop brings together scholars and researchers on the topic of multilingualism in periodicals scholarship. It seeks to spotlight ongoing projects in academic research across languages, as well as…

We are pleased to announce that the ESPRit online seminar series, initially launched in March 2020, will shortly enter its third series. The first two focused on ‘Crossover influences and local identities in the popular illustrated periodicals of the 19th and twentieth centuries’, and consisted of a combination of stimulating keynote addresses and fascinating 20 minute papers across a range of subjects. The third series takes as its general theme ‘sources beyond the periodical text’. It will c…

Call for Papers In conjunction with the 10th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), entitled Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press (Budapest, 8–9 September 2022, see the corresponding CfP), a hybrid postgraduate workshop will be held on 7 September 2022. We seek applications from graduate students working on any topic with regard to periodicals from any historical period…

Call for Papers 10th International ESPRit Conference Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press   Time and venue: 7– 9 September 2022, Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary. The hybrid event is co-organized with the Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM) – Kassák Museum. Scientific committee: Gábor Dobó (PIM–Kassák Museum); Dávid…

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 here. You are now invited to the second series: November 5…