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).

These seminars delve into various aspects of periodical studies, featuring keynote lectures and presentations from scholars worldwide. The sessions are categorized into specific series, each focusing on distinct themes:

➡️ General Series: this series encompasses a wide range of topics in periodical studies, offering a platform for scholars to present new research, methodologies, and theoretical approaches.

➡️ 'Periodicals and the Law' Network Online Seminar Series: launched in the 2023-2024 academic year, this series examines the relationship between periodicals and legal frameworks, including press regulation, intellectual property, and censorship

➡️ Seminar Series on Transnational Periodical Research: this work-in-progress series features contributors to the upcoming Brill Handbook of Transnational Periodical Research (edited by Marianne Van Remoortel and Fionnuala Dillane, planned for publication in 2025). Each session, designed as an interactive workshop, focuses on challenges in transnational periodical research, exploring methodologies, theoretical approaches, and the usefulness (or limitations) of the 'transnational' framework

🔹 Click on each series title to watch the recordings of the seminars and for further details.

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 journalism from which they have historically been excluded (politics, economics, international affairs). Confirmed panellists: Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, and Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic and former deputy editor of the New Statesman. Chaired by Dr Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City University of London.

• Panel 2 – “Women, Publishing, and the Literary Press” – will focus on literary and review journalism and publishing, in particular the persistent gender bias in favour of male reviewers and books authored by men. Confirmed panellists: Thea Lenarduzzi, Commissioning Editor at the TLS; Catherine Riley, writer and co-founder of the Primadonna Festival; Nicola Beauman, founder of Persephone Books. Chaired by Rebecca Harding, Chair of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.

These hour-long live-streamed panel discussions will be accompanied by pre-recorded illustrated talks about Time and Tide’s interwar history, all of which will be made available on the project website. 

For more about Time and Tide and this project please visit our website, www.timeandtidemagazine.org, where further details about the Festival will be published in due course.

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 Panzieri, “Mondo Operaio” e il “Supplemento scientifico-letterario” 

Michele Filippini (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna), Raniero Panzieri all’origine della nuova sinistra 

Giancarlo Monina (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Lelio Basso e la “Revue Internationale du socialisme/International Socialist Journal” 

Luca Polese Remaggi (Università degli Studi di Salerno), “L’Astrolabio” dal sostegno alla critica del centro-sinistra (1963-1968) 

12 a.m.
CONFORMISTS AND MAVERICKS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY (chair: Kristin Ewins) 

Christophe Premat (Stockholm University), Old Left against New Left: the internal debates about the future of Marxism in the radical Left periodicals “Socialisme ou Barbarie” and “Pouvoir Ouvrier” (1958-1969) 

Kristof Niese (Universität Bonn), Transnational connections and vitalising ideas for the New Left? Hans Magnus Enzensbergers journal „Kursbuch“ around ‚1968’ 

3 p.m. 

LA SINISTRA FUORI DALLA SINISTRA: CATTOLICI DEL DISSENSO, LETTERATI, GIOVANI IMPEGNATI (chair: Irene Piazzoni) 

Marta Margotti (Università degli Studi di Torino), Padroni e operai sulla stessa barca? Rivoluzione sociale, lotta politica e riforma religiosa in alcune riviste del “dissenso” cattolico 

Fabio Guidali (Università degli Studi di Milano), Engagés/enragés: “Quaderni piacentini” e “Giovane critica” dalla periferia al centro 

Enrico Landoni (Università eCampus), Diffondere dubbi e rovinare certezze. L'irriverente ed effimera missione di “Quindici” (1967-1969). 

Scientific committee:

Eric Burton, Universität Innsbruck 

Kristin Ewins, Örebro University and chair of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) 

Fabio Guidali, Università degli Studi di Milano 

Irene Piazzoni, Università degli Studi di Milano 

Christophe Premat, Stockholm University 

Daniela Saresella, Università degli Studi di Milano 

Organization and secretariat: Fabio Guidali

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Special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies Vol 5 No 1 (2020): Vol 5 No 1 (2020): What is Popular? Studies on the Press in Inter-War Europe

Guest-edited by Fabio Guidali and Gioula Koutsopanagou.

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Gioula Koutsopanagou, What is Popular? Studies on the Press in Interwar Europe: Popular Print as Historical Artefact

Martin Conboy, Aligning the Newspaper and the People: Defining the Popular in the British Press

Irene Piazzoni, Shaping a Weekly ‘For Everyone’: Italian Rotocalchi Entre-Deux-Guerres

24–42

Enrico Landoni, Propaganda and Information Serving the Italian Sports Movement: The Case of the Periodical Lo Sport Fascista (1928‒43)

Victoria Kuttainen, Books, Films, and Phonographs: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Intermediation of Historical New Media

James Whitworth, Visual Humour and the Pocket Cartoon: Osbert Lancaster and a Paradigm Shift in the British Press in the Interwar Years

Nicole Immig, Greek Illustrated Journals and the ‘Popular’ (1912‒24): In Quest for a New Research Approach

Fabio Guidali, Afterword: In the Eye of the Beholder? A Proposal for a Popular Culture Artefacts Checklist

REVIEWS

Andrew D. Hoyt, Review of Paolo Giovannetti, ed., Periodici del Novecento e del Duemila fra Avanguardie e Postmoderno (2018)

Fauve Vandenberghe, Review of Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell, eds, Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s (2018)