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 consist of the following contributions:

Friday 8 April, 3PM CET:

Opening lecture by Filippos Tsimpoglou (Director General of the National Library of Greece), ‘Expanding the services of the National Library of Greece to researchers, public, libraries, society and next generations’ More information

13 May, 3PM CET:

• Zsuzsa Török (Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest), ‘Sources for Anonymous Contributors to Periodicals: The Case of the Hungarian Stephanie Wohl and The Scotsman’
• Levente T. Szabó (Babeș-Bolyai University), ‘Reconstructing the Entangled History of the First International Journal of Comparative Literary Studies’

17 June, 3PM CET:

• Nora Ramtke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), ‘Europa (1835-1844) and its Supplements: Archiving the Abundance’
• 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’

Please click here to register for the online seminar series. We will send you the Zoom link via e-mail.