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Projects and networks

The following is a growing selection of research projects, networks and websites related to (primarily European) periodical research. If you have any suggestions, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research networks, societies and centres:

  • Middlebrow Network, focused on research on the term "middlebrow" (includes a mailing list)

 

Research projects and databases:

  • The Curran Index (Identifying the men and women whose stories, poems, and articles appeared anonymously in nineteenth-century British periodicals.)
  • NoRMMA: Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences. (A research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences.)
  • WeChangEd: Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920, Ghent University
  • SpaTrEM: Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Culture 1945 – 1965, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Nottingham Trent University
  • KYPSELI: database on Ottoman Women's Press (19th century - 1923), University of Crete.

Other websites of interest:

  • Europeana, site dedicated to the digitilisation of European cultural heritage
  • Mapping the Magazine 3, papers presented at the Mapping the Magazine 3 Conference, held at Cardiff University 7 and 8 July 2011
  • Nineteenth Century Index, source for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives
  • Weimar Studies Network, resources on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); includes links to German periodicals online
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 9th 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: pdfESPRit2021_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!