Membership

ESPRit was formally registered as a research society with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in 2018. The first annual general meeting decided to put in place a paid membership structure to support our activities as a community of scholars, including an annual conference, postgraduate workshops and bursaries, and the publication of our peer-reviewed online Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS). Paid-up members are granted a vote at the annual general meetings and discounts at future events. 

Membership

Membership fees are as follows:

  • Basic fee: €30 per year
  • Reduced fee: €15 per year (for postgraduate, unaffiliated, and retired members)
  • In addition, Founding Membership is granted to any member who makes an initial donation of €150 or more

Please fill in the form below to register as a member of the Society. In case you are new to ESPRit, we recommend that you also subscribe to our mailing list.

 

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In order to help us set up the Society, you are kindly invited to make an additional donation to ESPRit. If you donate €150 or more at your first registration, you will be mentioned as a Founding Member on our website, should you wish so. NB: this initial donation replaces the regular membership fee, which will become applicable from the second year onwards.
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New Book: Paolo Giovannetti (ed.), Periodici del Novecento e del Duemila fra avanguardie e postmoderno (Mimesis, 2018)

ESPRit is pleased to inform you of the publication of Periodici del Novecento e del Duemila fra avanguardie e postmoderno, an Italian-language volume edited by prof. Paolo Giovannetti in the context of his research project "Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Periodicals: Between the Avant-Gardes and Postmodernism." Below is a short description of this publication:

The volume aims to provide a contribution to research in the field of periodical studies. As a recently defined field, the historical-theoretical study of periodicals implies multidisciplinary competences that bring together specific areas such as literature, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, as well as librarianship and archiving. It also involves different approaches, from the historical approach (history of the press, history of journalism, history of art, etc.) to the semiotic one (visual and media studies). The periodical field thus identified allows many issues to be reconsidered in an innovative way: in literature, for instance, it prompts a re-reading of national canons and assumed categories such as avant-garde, modernism, postmodernism.

Our best congratulations to prof. Giovannetti and to the volume's contributors!

 

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Mailing list

The European Society for Periodical Research shares news, conference announcements, new JEPS issues, and other updates through our Google Groups mailing list.

This mailing list also serves as a platform for subscribers to exchange information, ask questions, and share new publications with the periodical research community.

Subscription to the ESPRit mailing list is open to anyone with an interest in periodical research, whether or not they are registered members of ESPRit.

If you would like to become more actively involved in the Society, please go to our Membership page.

How to Join the ESPRit Google Group

  • Navigate to ESPRit - Google Groups (alternatively, you can search forThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on https://groups.google.com/)
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Important Notes

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  • If you don’t have a Google Account, you can create one here
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 Access Past Newsletters

Interested in previous ESPRit announcements? You can find an archive of past newsletters here.

Our Structure

ESPRit is led by a team of scholars who coordinate the society’s activities and initiatives. This section introduces the members of the ESPRit Board, Advisory Board, and Committee.

ESPRit Board

Four elected members sit on the ESPRit Board:

Chair – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Università IULM)

Vice Chair — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Universiteit Gent)

Secretary — Mary Ikoniadou (Leeds School of Arts)

Treasurer — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Universiteit Utrecht)

 Advisory Board

The Advisory Board consists of five elected members:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Birkbeck, University of London)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (University College Dublin)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.(University of Liverpool)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Università degli Studi di Milano)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

Committee

The ESPRit Committee is a group of appointed members who fulfill specific tasks within the Society:  

Financial Audit Committee — Maaike Koffeman (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Financial Audit Committee — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Editor-in-Chief of JEPS – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Conference Liaison — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Ruhr University Bochum)

Postgraduate Workshop — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Kassák Museum, Budapest)

Academic Networking — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Institut Universitaire de France and Université de Versailles (UVSQ))

Postgraduate Member — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (King’s College London and British Library)

Language Officer — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

Online Seminars — Bénédicte Coste (Université de Bourgogne)

Periodicals and the Law Network — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Panteion University, Athens)

Website Coordinator — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

Honorary Fellow — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Örebro University)

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