ESPRit online seminar 17 June 2022

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), ‘August Lewalds Europa (1835-1844) and its Supplements: Archiving the Abundance’

The most basic question of what belongs to a periodical when it comes to archiving practices is not always an easy one. Whether periodical scholars work with digitised periodicals or with archived material, we know that we don’t examine them in the state in which they were published originally but bound in a more or less book-like form and then again converted to digital copies. August Lewald’s Europa, a popular magazine published in the 1830s and 1840s, came out with a whole bunch of supplements, fashion plates, lithographs, steel engravings, and music sheets. I will discuss this periodical as a fascinating example in terms of material diversity that reveals traces not only of various archiving practices but of notions of bookishness and periodical formats.

Hannah Connell (King’s College London and British Library), ‘Uncovering the relationships between periodicals through editorial correspondence: Networks of Russian-language emigre periodicals in interwar Paris’

Sovremennye zapiski (Contemporary Notes) is the preeminent Russian-language literary and socio-political journal published between 1920 and 1940 in Paris. Smaller periodicals targeting specific communities appear and disappear with great regularity in the Russian-language publishing landscape of interwar Paris. Sovremennye zapiski’s editors kept a close eye on developing trends in interwar periodical publishing. Their editorial correspondence reveals more than simply the procedures behind a single journal. Significant aspects of SZ’s collaboration and competition with newspapers and magazines are visible through these editorial discussions. In addition, there is relatively little substantial editorial correspondence for other Russian-language émigré periodicals. It is possible, however, to recover certain aspects of the editorial procedures of other periodicals from the editorial archive of SZ. Understanding the relationships between these periodicals reveals how the place of this thick journal in émigré society changed over its publishing life.

9th International ESPRit Conference

Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space and Time, Competition and Transfer / Periodische Formate auf dem Markt: Ökonomien von Raum und Zeit, Konkurrenz und Transfer

1–17 June 2021

organised by the DFG Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 9^th conference of the European Society for Periodical Research at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, will be held online. The virtual event aims to bring scholars together, to present and discuss recent work on periodicals, to meet in virtual coffee breaks, to get in touch, and to keep in touch. We welcome proposals from researchers at all stages of their careers from various disciplines.

1-13 June 2021:

Watch and comment pre-recorded presentations at the conference website

11 June 2021:
Postgraduate Workshop

14–17 June 2021:

Online conference with live sesssins: Keynotes, Plenary Panels, Roundtable
ESPRit Annual Business Meeting (for paying members of ESPRit - to register, click here)

We look forward to welcoming you to this virtual ESPRit conference! Watch the conference trailer here:

For more information, please go to the conference website: esprit2021.blogs.ru

For more information, please go to the conference website: esprit2021.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, or consult the Conference Programme: ESPRit2021_Conference_Programme.pdf

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ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies

(plus preceding Workshop on Academic Poster Presentations)

11 June 2021

(15 & 22 April 2021)

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 28 February 2021

In conjunction with the virtual 9th ESPRit Conference “Periodical Formats in the Market”, a virtual postgraduate workshop will be held on 11 June 2021. The workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic with regard to periodicals from any historical period, geographical origin, and cultural context. Personalised feedback will be offered by a committee comprising ESPRit members and members of the DFG Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature.

In addition to the virtual workshop an 11 June 2021, there will be an online workshop on 15 & 22 April 2021 where all workshop participants will get a professional training on the concept and design of academic posters (15 April) and their effective presentations (22 April).

This workshop will be held in English by a communication designer and trainer via ZOOM.

To apply, please send a 500-word abstract of the thesis to be presented in a poster presentation and a short CV (150 words) including name, institutional affiliation, and email address to the organisers no later than 28 February 2021 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

We look forward to welcoming you to the virtual workshop!

Conferences and seminars

Seminar: Taking the Magazine out of the Metropolis
Online, 12 January 2024

Séminaire Pélias: Les périodiques comme médiateurs culturels
Paris, 7 February 2024

Periodicals and the Law: seminar 3
Online, 24 April 2024

Periodicals and the Law: seminar 4
Online, 28 May 2024

12th International ESPRit Conference: Periodicals: S.T.E.A.M. Ahead!
Urbino, 11-13 September 2024