Call for Applications: 8th ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies (Athens, 11 September 2019)
8th ESPRit Postgraduate Workshop on Periodical Studies
National Library of Greece
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
11 September 2019
Applications are invited for a day-long postgraduate workshop on periodical studies in Athens, at the National Library of Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, on 11 September 2019 as part of ESPRit’s Eighth Annual International Conference, ‘Periodicals and Visual Culture’ (Athens, 12-13 September 2019 at the National Library of Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, see the corresponding CFP at http://www.espr-it.eu/).
About ESPRit
The European Society for Periodical Research is an international scholarly organisation that promotes, fosters and disseminates research on all aspects of European periodical cultures from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. It has a thoroughly interdisciplinary agenda and multilingual approach, and transcends specific thematic interests. Though its emphasis is on European periodical research, it also welcomes research extended to other related cultural areas (the Americas, East Mediterranean, Maghreb, etc.) ESPRit’s core publication, the Journal of European Periodical Studies (http://ojs.ugent.be/jeps), a biannual peer-reviewed online journal, publishes research from a broad range of critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives, including, but not limited to, cultural history, literary studies, art history, gender studies, media studies, history of science, and digital humanities. As the official journal of ESPRit, the Journal of European Periodical Studies offers scholars a forum for sharing their
research and exchanging ideas across disciplinary borders.
About the Workshop
The Workshop is for Masters and PhD candidates. Sessions will focus on: (1) the development or application of innovative research methodologies, (2) the benefits of applying digital humanities approaches to periodical and journalism studies, (3) examples of recent research on visual culture in the periodical press; and (4) papers that explore the many meanings of ‘the popular’ in relation to the periodical press.
Selected candidates will have the opportunity to present their work and may benefit from helpful feedback on their presentations during the sessions. Workshop moderators may include leading periodical scholars. The workshop will offer the opportunity to connect with people who are at a similar stage in their career as well as support and advice from later stage scholars and experts in the field.
Application Process
Please forward the following in English and/or in Greek via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15 April 2019:
- a cover letter explaining your reasons for applying to the workshop (max. two pages)
- a brief CV (max. two pages, min. 11 point)
- an abstract of your major research project (max. 500 words)
- a paper on the role of periodical studies in your research (max. 1000 words).
We regret that we are not in a position to offer travel bursaries at this point but the conference fee will be waived for selected participants to the workshop. Participants will be selected by a specific scientific committee with the agreement of the ESPRit Steering Committee. Their decision will be communicated to all applicants by 15 May 2019.
Onzième séminaire du TIGRE, 2016-2017
LIRE LES IMPRIMES ET LES ESTAMPES COMME DES OBJETS CULTURELS
animé à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure par Evanghelia Stead
Dans la continuité de l’année 2015-2016, le séminaire du TIGRE considérera les livres, les revues et les estampes comme des objets culturels parlants et complexes en Europe et ailleurs, portant en eux «les bornes de leur possible réception», selon le mot de Roger Chartier concernant les livres (Pratiques de la lecture, 1985:79). En partant de la matérialité, des relations intersémiotiques et des contextes mouvants de la circulation des œuvres, il réfléchira aux usages et aux publics.
Le séminaire du TIGRE encourage de tradition le dialogue entre plusieurs disciplines (littérature et littérature comparée, histoire du livre, histoire de l’art, histoire, médiologie et études culturelles) et fait place à la lecture et à l’interprétation. Il accueillera cette année des études qui vont des œuvres, des créateurs et des éditeurs marquants aux mythes et aux motifs, leur transmission et leur circulation en Europe et en dehors des frontières européennes, et fera place à la manière dont imprimés et estampes sont transmis, lus, relus et retravaillés à travers différents supports et moyens, que ce soit dans des éditions et des tirages de luxe ou dans la presse imprimée.
Séminaire ouvert aux étudiants à partir du Master. Début : 8 octobre 2015, fin : 4 février 2017. Séances de 3h, le samedi matin, 10h-13h, ENS, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris.
Le séminaire du TIGRE se tient habituellement à la salle Simone Weil, sauf indication contraire.
N.B. Peut être validé au titre du premier ou du second semestre (3 ECTS) ou être suivi comme séminaire libre.
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8 octobre 2016, ENS, 10h-13h, salle Simone Weil : Les écrivains et l’estampe
Nathalie Ferrand (CNRS), «Rousseau et l’estampe»
Claire Chagniot (docteur en Lettres, Paris IV Sorbonne), «Baudelaire et l’estampe»
15 octobre 2016, ENS, 10-13 h, salle Simone Weil : Études culturelles maghrébines
Mourad Yelles (INaLCO) : «Le sexe des anges. Traversée des genres dans le Texte maghrébin»
5 novembre 2016, 13h30-19h, Bibliothèque nationale de France, salle 70 (entrée Est)
Soutenance de la thèse de doctorat de Philipp Leu (UVSQ, BnF, Fondation Patrima), Les revues artistiques et littéraires (1880-1900) : questions de conservation et de numérisation
12 novembre 2016, ENS, 10-13 h, salle Simone Weil : Revues grecques, revues européennes
Kalliopi Sfakianaki (Université de Crète, doctorante), «Tériade et son réseau de revues d’art pendant l’entre-deux-guerres»
Lucile Arnoux-Farnoux (Université de Tours), «Réseaux des revues grecques dans les années 1930»
19 novembre 2016, ENS, 10-13 h, salle à préciser: Créativité du livre d’artiste
Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University, R-U), «Matisse and the Poets»
Gaëlle Theval (Thalim et programme ANR "littépub"): «Les livres d’un poète sonore : des objets paradoxaux ?» (à propos de Bernard Heidsieck)
10 décembre 2016, ENS, 10-13 h, salle Simone Weil : Éditeurs de revues en Europe
Matthew Philpotts (University of Liverpool), «Plural Actors: Editorial Practice as Social Practice: T.S. Eliot (The Criterion), Thomas Mann (Maß und Wert), and Jean Paul Sartre (Les Temps modernes)»
21 janvier 2017, ENS, 10-13 h, salle Simone Weil : Photobook et Toybook
Paul Edwards (Université Paris VII), «Grandes étapes dans l’élaboration matérielle du photobook de fiction littéraire»
François Fièvre (docteur en histoire de l’art, chercheur associé Intru, Un. de Tours), «Une édition critique numérique pour un toybook de Walter Crane : pourquoi et comment ?»
4 février 2017, ENS, 10-13 h, salle Simone Weil : Les éphémères, objets culturels
Olivier Belin et Florence Ferran (Un. de Cergy, projet PatrimEph, Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine), «Lire les éphémères comme des objets culturels»
Conference: The Representation of the Book in the Carolingian and Ottonian eras
On 15-17 October 2015 the Institut National d'Histore d'Art et Sorbonne (Paris) will hold a symposium on "Les représentations du livre aux époques carolingienne et ottonienne".
Find more information at their website.
Call for Papers: The Material Game in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
What is the role of games and play in 19thC culture? How do games and play reveal cultural values or anxieties? What forces undergirded the development of different games? The editors seek essays for a proposed collection on games and play in the long nineteenth century in England, the U.S., and Canada. They are particularly interested in essays examining the material and/or visual culture of games.
500-word abstracts (or full papers) due by Friday, October 2, 2015 to the editors—Dr. Ann R. Hawkins and Dr. Allison Whitney—at the following email address (also for questions): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Exhibition: Books under Fire
On 4 July 2015 the University Library of the KU Leuven will open Books under fire. From Leuven to Timbuktu, an exhibition on endangered and destroyed heritage, from 1914 until today. Exhibits about the Leuven library will be combined with precious manuscripts from Mamma Haidara Memorial Library in Timbuktu and with contemporary art by the Belgian artist Sofie Muller. Books under fire tells a captivating – and highly relevant – story of deliberate destruction, international outrage and solidarity.
The exhibition runs from 4 July until 13 Sept. and information can be found here.