Registration
Welcome and Introduction
Keynote:
Coffee
Session 1
1.1. African Print Cultures (1): Conformism, Conflict, Critique:
Jean Martinely Iata (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “White Masks, Black Thoughts: Conformism as an Editorial Strategy in Revues des jeunes de Madagascar”
Tessa van Wijk (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Constructing Gender in Congolese évolué magazines”
Rikus van Eeden (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Periodicals in the South African Treason Trial, 1956-61”
1.2. Reception Studies and Periodicals: Literary and Cultural Innovation in 18th- and 19thCentury Italy (1): Transnational Networks and Cultural Mediation
Giulia Coppi (Ghent University) — “The Good Traveller: The Art of Learning and Voyaging in Italian
Spectatorial Periodicals (1727- 1822)”
Sandra Parmegiani (University of Guelph) and Kellie Elrick (University of Toronto) — “Transcultural ournalism: Digitizing the Reception of Eighteenth-Century English Novels in the Italian Press on the Canadian Writer Research Collaboratory”
Gianluca Della Corte (Siena University) — “An Italian Voice on France: Giovanni De Castro's Journalistic Writings”
Chiara Cremona (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Accessing Foreign Culture: Mediation and Translation Strategies in the Early 19th-Century Italian Periodical Press”
1.3. Cultural Brokers and Mediators
Elizaveta Berquin (Université libre de Bruxelles) — “‘The WellIntentioned’: A Brussels-Based Journal by Dmitry Shakhovskoy and Its Networks”
Johannes Makar (Library of Congress) — “Brokers of Arabic Print: The Many Lives of Arab Print Agents at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Martina Mecco (Université libre de Bruxelles) — “Rozpravy Aventina: Otokar Štorch-Marien’s Endeavour to Establish an Autonomous Literary Sphere between National Debate and Cultural Mediation”
1.4. Postgraduate Workshop (I)
Anita-Apollónia Nagy (Babes-Bolyai University) — “Writing the Young Adult’s War: WWI and Trauma in Hungarian Youth Periodicals” Caroline Siebert (Universität Leipzig) — “The Reception of Belgian Literature in the Czech literary Journal Moderní revue (1895–1925)”
Constance Garcia (Paris 8) — “Sociology of Works and Interdisciplinary Approach: A Methodological Framework for the Study of the Relationship between Art and Emotions in New Masses”
Lunch
Session 2
2.1. African Print Cultures (2)
Dyoniz Kindata (Leuphana University Lüneburg / Sorbonne Nouvelle III) — “Writing Between Worlds: Periodicals, Audiences, and World-Making in Kiongozi
Dominique Ranaivoson (Université de Lorraine) — “Quand l’Occident visite la Grande Ile: The Magazine Teny soa in Madagascar”
Michelle Kelly (King's College London) — “The 'World' Refracted through Ghana's Contribution to Mid-Twentieth-Century Periodical Culture”
2.2. Reception Studies and Periodicals: Literary and Cultural Innovation in 18th- and 19thCentury Italy (2): Realism, Morality and Modernity in Post-Unification Periodicals
Rainer Maria Ceci (Roma Tre University) — “Regulating Realism: The Reception of Victorian Fiction in Italian Periodicals (1860-80)”
Lorenzo Moscardin (Scuola Normale Superiore) — “Aspects of Flaubert's Reception in Post Unification Italian Periodicals”
Barbara Ragazzi (Catania University) — “The Dawn of the American Myth: Walt Whitman's Early Reception in the Italian Periodical Press (1879-99)”
Silvia Valisa (Florida State University) — “Understanding Periodical Culture via the Politics of the Feuilleton: The Gendered Reception of Publisher Sonzogno's Model in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy”
2.3. Arab Print Cultures
Katrin Köster (Leipzig University) — “From the Azure Blue Shore to the Arab Umma. ʿAlawī Journals as Worldmakers”
Adéla Provazníková (Charles University)— “Getting to Know the World through Stories: (Non) Fiction’s Significant Geographies in al-Diyāʾ (Cairo, 1898-1906)”
Barbara Winckler (University of Münster / Orient-Institut Beirut) — “From the Homeland to the
Diaspora, and Back Again: Syrian Women’s Journals of the 1920s between Local Embeddedness and Global Connectivity”
2.4. Postgraduate Workshop (II)
Marco Colella (Università degli Studi di Milano) — “Mapping an exchange of editorial content: satirical print culture between the XIXth and the XXth centuries”
Megan Vansevenant (Ghent University) — “Close Reading Women’s Mobility in Periodicals”
Mehran Gandhi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Reading Persia Through the Image-Texts of the Illustrated London News”
Coffee
Session 3
3.1. Women Editors and Translators
Jarad Zimbler (King's College London) — “A Woman's Work: Ruth Harnett's New Coin”
Anna Girling (University of Edinburgh) — “The Large and Small Worlds of Una Marson's Cosmopolitan (1928-31)”
Eloise Forestier (Ghent University) — “Not a World’s View: Velma Swanston Howard’s ‘mauled and mangled’ Translations of Selma Lagerlöf in the Times Literary Supplement”
3.2. Visual Worlds: Art, Image, Illustration
Poppy Sfakianaki (University of Crete) — “Coronet: Art in Pocket Size, or ‘Infinite Riches in a Little Room’”
Veronica Bassini (University of Genova) — “Beyond the Page: NonPrint Archives and the World of Illustrated Periodicals through the Pipein Gamba Fund”
Anna Namestnikov (Ghent University) — “Gateways to Modernity?: Translation, Image, and the Global Imagination in Rubezh”
3.3. The Making of Saudi Journals in the Twentieth Century
Hasan Alsulami (Umm al-Qura University) — “Al-Manhal Journal: Planting the Early Seeds of Saudi National Discourse”
Ali Alnahhabi (Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University) — “Cultural Periodicals and the Mediation of Modernity: ʿAlāmāt Journal and the Saudi Literary Field in the 1980s”
Samaher Aldhamen (King Saud University) — “Inside the Intellectual Kitchen: Editorial Agency, Visual Architecture, and the Cohesive 'World' of Al-Qafilah Magazine
Ibrahim Alfraih (King Saud University) — “World-Making Elsewhere: Translation and the Epistemic Invisibility of Arabic Periodicals: A Revealing Case from Nawāfidh
3.4. Postgraduate Workshop (III)
Maria Francesca Rondinelli (Université Grenoble Alpes) — “Methodological Challenges of Working with ‘Minor’ Multilingual Periodicals: from Francophone and Italophone Periodicals in Interwar Egypt to Transnational Periodical Methodology”
Lena Sophie Voß (Universität Leipzig) — “‘Close Aisthesis‘: How to Analyze Concepts of Objects in Small Illustrated Jewish Magazines in German Language from the Interwar Period in Berlin and Vienna”
Maria Paganopoulou (University of Brighton) — “The Connectivity of Feminist Magazines: Methodological Frameworks and Their Limitations”
Keynote:
Coffee
Session 4
4.1. The World of Fashion
Maaheen Ahmed (Ghent University) — “The Colors of La Gazette du Bon Ton: Nomadic Mediation and Fashioning of Taste”
Kirsten MacLeod (Newcastle University) — “The Queer World of Harper’s Bazar in the 1920s”
Henriette Partzsch (University of Glasgow) — “Disrupted Connections: German, French and Spanish Fashion Periodicals and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71
4.2. Global Approaches to Editorial Practices
Bianca da Luz (University of Vienna) — “Women’s Pages and WorldMaking in German-Language U.S. Newspapers (1910–25): Pasted Worlds and Editorial Routine”
Merse Szeredi (Kassák Museum) —“Transnational Circulation of Clichés: On the Agency of Photo Reproductions in Avant-Garde Magazines during the 1920s”
Pappal Suneja (Bauhaus University Weimar) — “Layout as Worldview: Debate and Transnational Exchange in Design (India), 1957–88”
4.3. Propaganda and Resistance
Stefano Locati (IULM University) — “Foreign Editions of Tempo: Italian Visual Narratives and Propaganda in the Geopolitical Landscape of the Dictatorships”
Ine Van Linthout (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “The Reshaping of ‘Europe’ in Europäische Literatur: Periodical Worldmaking during the Second World War”
Marysa Demoor (Ghent University)— “The Clandestine Press in World War II: Propaganda, Memory and Resistance”
4.4. World-Making in East Asian Periodicals: Youth, Leftist Cosmopolitanism and Communist World Literature
Siu Hin Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) — “Advent of the Young Korean Peninsula: ‘Youth’ Rhetoric in Early Twentieth-Century East Asian Periodicals”
Ka Chun Ho (Hong Kong Shue Yan University) — “Remapping the World Imagination: A Distant Reading of Du Jian’s Editorial Practice in 1980s Hong Kong Literary Magazines”
Ka Ki Wong (Hong Kong Shue Yan University) — “A Communist Model of World Literature: ‘First World’ Literature Translation in Pro-Communist Magazines in Cold War Hong Kong”
Lunch
Session 5
5.1. Nineteenth-Century Popular Print Culture
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala University) and Matthew Rubery(Queen Mary University) —
“Memesis: Rethinking the Circulation of Ideas in the Victorian Press”
Helen Craske (Université libre de Bruxelles) — “Peripheral Worlds: Sidelines and Spinoffs in Saucy French Magazines (1880-1914)”
Gary Kelly (University of Alberta) —“Penny Periodicals and NineteenthCentury Mechanics’ Worlding
5.2. Portable Worlds: Periodicals, Travel and World History
Scott T. Zukowski (University of Graz)— “Travel Narratives as Experiments in Nineteenth-Century African American Civic Thought”
Jakob Kihlberg (Uppsala University) — “The Nineteenth Century Seen from Up North: World History in Swedish Illustrated Magazines,1840-1900”
Françoise Baillet (Université Caen Normandie) — “Roaming the World with Punch’s Pocket Book: Reception, Collections, Migrations”
5.3. Fin-de-siècle Periodicals
Alex Murray (Queen’s University Belfast) — “‘Terra Australis beckons at the sliprails of the Imagination’: Decadence, Colonialism, and Cultural Renewal”
Julien Schuh (Université Paris Nanterre) — “Serial Milieus: International Magazines and the Synchronisation of Cultural Modernity (1895–1914)”
James Vliexs (Université libre de Bruxelles) — “The Circulation of Translations and Literary Cosmopolitanism in a Network of Western European Fin-de-siècle Periodicals”
5.4. Japan in the Global Information Networks of the Age of Imperialism: Treaty Port Press, Illustrated War Magazines, and Commercial Information Periodicals, 1850-1920s
Andreas Eichleter (Universität Heidelberg) — “Correcting the Errors of the English Press: The Treaty Port Press in Japan and the Global Distribution of Knowledge in the 19th Century”
Jan Schmidt (KU Leuven) — “The Business of Empires: The World in the Periodicals of the Japanese Chambers of Commerce, 1880s1920s”
Arend Bucher (KU Leuven) — “An Empire of Belligerent Routine in ‘Truthful Accounts’ (jikki): How Japanese Illustrated War Magazines from the First Sino-Japanese War,the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War Became a Phenomenon”
Coffee
Session 6
6.1. Transnational Networks and Circulations
Will Straw (McGill University) —“Transnational Networks in the Post-World War II Celebrity Gossip Column”
Céline Mansanti (Université de Picardie) — “The Afterlives of Magazines: U.S. Pulp Back Issues Traveling Around the World in the 1930s”
Giordano Panosetti (LSE / University of Girona): — “Towards a Global Approach to Operaismo: Magazines and Intellectual Circulation across the Atlantic”
6.2. Magazines in the World / The World in Magazines: Supplements and Material Extensions of the Periodical
Nora Ramtke (Ruhr University Bochum) — “Supplements in Motion”
Alice Morin (Université de Lorraine) — “Photography as a National/Universal Language: Photo Material Circulations in and around Magazines in the Mid-20th Century”
Samuel Bibby (Association for Art History) — “Activist Politics, Paracodical Objects, and the Fragmentation of the Feminist Periodical in 1970s and ‘80s Britain”
6.3. Digital Approaches
Michelle Ye (Education University of Hong Kong) — “Unearthing the Cantonese Newspaper Huibao: A Digitization Project”
Morgane Ott (Royal Library of Belgium) — “Performing the Illustrated Press: Rotogravure in Belgian Interwar Family Magazines Networks and the Context of World’s Fairs”
Jan Lampaert (Ghent University) —“Visual Network Analysis as Method: Rethinking the Flemish Literary Underground (1966-69)”
6.4. Irish Writing and Periodical Cultures in Transnational Context
Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven) — “A Portable Form: International Short Fiction in Irish Literary Magazines at Mid-Century”
Sinéad Moynihan (University of Exeter) — “‘The story does not come off entirely successfully’: Irish Writers, Failure and The New Yorker at Mid-Century”
Elena Ogliari (University of Milan) —“‘An Island but Never Isolated’: The Dublin Magazine, Irish Jewish Networks and Pluralist WorldMaking, 1923-32”
Conference Dinner at Restaurant Boemvol (Rue Henri Maus 25)
Session 7
7.1. Between Heimat and Welt: Periodicals, Otherness and Cosmopolitan Imagination
Sarah Borree (Goethe University Frankfurt) — “Constructing Similarity and Otherness: Visual Culture and Colonial Imagination in Kolonie und Heimat”
Christa Spreizer (City University of New York) — “The ‘World’ of Die Welt der Frau”
Evi Heinz (Humboldt University of Berlin) — “‘Heimatlos': Cosmopolitan Culture in Der Querschnitt (1921-36)”
7.2. Longitudinal Landscapes across Literary Journals
Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) and Monica Jansen (Utrecht University) — “The Modern in Avant-garde and Sacred Architecture: A Dialogue between Architectural Traditions in Dutch and Italian Periodicals”
Matteo Brera (University of Padua / Seton Hall University) — “Periodicals as Diasporic Worlds: Italian Language Newspapers and the Spatial Pedagogy of the Jim Crow South”
Maria Bonaria Urban (University of Amsterdam) — “Tourism Writing as a Spatial Portrait of the Making of Fascist Italianness”
7.3. Socialist and Marxist Periodicals
Jelena Lalatović (University of Zagreb) — “Between the Legacy of Empire and the World of Future: Labour Migration and ProtoEnvironmentalist Debates in the Victorian Socialist Press”
Jay Kerslake (University of Leeds) — “‘What is it to you Señor Englishman?’: Looking at the World in the British Women’s Trade Union Magazine the Woman Worker (1916-21)”
Stanislava Barać (Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade) — “Marxist Theory of the World in a Single Periodical: Marksizam u svetu (Marxism in the World), 1974–89”
7.4. Disseminating Knowledge
Hervé Goerger (Sorbonne Nouvelle / University of Kent) —“The Young Man and the Sea: Oceanography against Terracentrism in the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation (1864-1916)”
Fabio Guidali (University of Milan) — “Wiring the Invisible World. Radio Periodicals and the Visual Imagination of Global Space in the Early 1920s”
Monika Bednarczuk (University of Białystok) — “The Polish Magazine Trzecie Oko (The Third Eye, 1984–88) and the Global Circulation of Esoteric Knowledge and Aesthetics”
Coffee
Session 8
8.1. Magazines as Worlds and the Worlding of Magazines
Jutta Ernst (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) — “The World at Home in Toronto: Exile Magazine’s Editorial Culture”
Sabina Fazli (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and Scott Hames (University of Stirling) — “Independent Magazines and Alternative Worlding”
Oliver Scheiding (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) — “Traditions and Visions: The Worldmaking of Indigenous Zines”
8.2. Poetry and the Visual Arts
Stéphane Cunescu (UCLouvain) — “Deterritoriazing Poetry: Action Poétique and Banana Split as WorldPeriodical”
Frédéric Rondeau (University of Maine) — “Towards a Universal Protest. The Internationalist Ambition of Phases (1954-67)”
Caterina Caputo (Università Iuav di Venezia) and Maria Elena Minuto (Université de Liège; Royal Holloway University of London) —“International Networks and Cultural Engagement in Italian Verbo Visual Periodicals of the 1970s: The Case of Tèchne”
8.3. Circulating Imaginaries: Illustrated Entertainment Periodicals as Cultural Mediators in Postwar Italy
Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Ghent University)— “How Linus Reframed the Funnies: Domestication Politics, Travelling Imaginaries, and the Making of Auteur Comics Magazines in Italy (1965-69)”
Nike Francesca Del Quercio (University of Bologna) — “From Hollywood to Italian Province: Negotiating American Culture in Italian Fotoromanzi”
Costanza Paolillo (IULM University) — “From Kodak to Ferrania: Transnational Models and Industrial Periodicals in Italian Photographic Culture”ZSW
8.4. Children's Periodicals
Kin-Wai Amelia Chu (Ghent University) — “Transcultural Childhoods in Print: The Children’s Paradise and the Global Networks of Sinophone Children’s Periodicals”
Manuela Di Franco (Ghent University) and Eva Van de Wiele (Ghent University / University of Antwerp) — “Glocalizing Disney Periodicals: The Case of the 1990s Italian Minni & Co.”
Sofie Vandepitte (KU Leuven / Ghent University) — “A Network of Crusaders: The Children’s Magazines Zonneland and Petits Belges by the Belgian Publishing Firm Averbode (1920-49)”
Lunch and ESPRit Business Meeting
Session 9
9.1. Forms of Dissent
Charlotte Reihs (University of Vienna) — “Building a CounterArchive: Proletarian Periodicals and the Politics of Radio in the Weimar Republic”
Sophie van den Elzen (Utrecht University) — “Black Dwarf(s), Free Speech and the 1960s Global Student Movement”
Elizaveta Shatalova (University of Waterloo) — “The World of Letters Beyond Boundaries: Counterpublicity in Post-Soviet Digital Periodicals
9.2. Periodicals as Visual and Material Worlds: Circulation, Infrastructure, and the Negotiation of Globality
Mary Ikoniadou (Leeds School of Arts) — “Selling and Sharing Socialism across Three Worlds: Illustrated Periodicals and the Infrastructures of World-Making”
Carlotta Castellani (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) — “Rewriting the Art World: Howardena Pindell and the Artists’ Magazines”
Vincent Fröhlich (FriedrichAlexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg)— “The Film Periodical as a World: Print Media Satellites and the Making of Film Culture”
9.3. Commercial Perspectives
Marcela Scibiorska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Selling Literature across Borders: Transnational Perspectives on North Francophone Publishers’ Commercial Magazines”
Barbora Svobodová (Université libre de Bruxelles) — “Factories, Media, and the Making of a Corporate World: Corporate Periodicals in Bat’a’s Global Expansion”
Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London) — “Touring the Titles: The Itinerant Contributor and the Worlds of Magazines”
9.4. Provincialising the World: How Twentieth-Century English County Magazines Constructed Their Worldview
Andrew Hobbs (Independent scholar) — “The International Periphery Viewed from the Provincial Centre of the English Regional Magazine, 1920s-60s”
Naomi Walker (Open University)— “County Notes and Country Girls: Women Writers Representing Their World in British Regional Magazines 1900-60”
Matt Davies (University of Chester) — “‘The epitome of English life’: How early editions of Cheshire Life magazine promoted local identity in national and global contexts”
Coffee
Keynote:
Concluding remarks and announcement ESPRit 2027