08:30-09:15

Registration

09:15-09:30

Welcome and Introduction

Room: Auditorium 

09:30-10:30

Keynote by Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford): "At Home in the World: Translation and the Idea of World Literature in Esperanto Periodicals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

​Chair: Clément Dessy (Université libre de Bruxelles) 

Room: Auditorium 

Stefano Evangelista picture
Stefano Evangelista
10:30-11:00

 Coffee

11:00-12:30

Session 1

1.1. African Print Cultures (1): Conformism, Conflict, Critique:

Chair: Scott T. Zukowski (University of Graz)

Room: Auditorium 

J
Jean Martinely Iata
T
Tessa van Wijk
R
Rikus van Eeden
1.2. Reception Studies and Periodicals: Literary and Cultural Innovation in 18th- and 19th-Century Italy (1): Transnational Networks and Cultural Mediation

Chair: Dirk Vanden Berghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Room: Panorama 

G
Giulia Coppi
S
Sandra Parmegiani and Kellie Elrick
G
Gianluca Della Corte
C
Chiara Cremona
1.3. Cultural Brokers and Mediators

Chair: Morgane Ott (Royal Library of Belgium) 

Room: Studio 

E
Elizaveta Berquin
M
Martina Mecco
C
Christina Bezari
1.4. Postgraduate Workshop (I)

Respondent: Evanghelia Stead (UVSQ)

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”

Room: Concert 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Session 2

 

2.1. African Print Cultures (2)

Chair: Rikus van Eeden (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Auditorium 

D
Dyoniz Kindata
D
Dominique Ranaivoson
M
Michelle Kelly
2.2. Reception Studies and Periodicals: Literary and Cultural Innovation in 18th- and 19th-Century Italy (2): Realism, Morality and Modernity in Post-Unification Periodicals

Chair: Dirk Vanden Berghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Panorama  

R
Rainer Maria Ceci
L
Lorenzo Moscardin
B
Barbara Ragazzi
S
Silvia Valisa
2.3. Arab Print Cultures

Chair: Hasan Alsulami (Umm al-Qura University)

Room: Studio 

K
Katrin Köster
A
Adéla Provazníková
B
Barbara Winckler
2.4. Postgraduate Workshop (II)

Respondent: Sophie van den Elzen (Universiteit Utrecht)

Marco Colella (Università degli Studi di Milano) — “Mapping an exchange of editorial content: satirical print culture between the XIXth and the  XXth centuries”

Mehran Ghandi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) — “Reading Persia Through the Image-Texts of the Illustrated London News”

Room: Concert 

15:00-15:30

 Coffee

15:30-17:00

Session 3 

3.1. Women Editors and Translators

Chair: Florence Le Cam (Université libre de Bruxelles) 

Room: Auditorium 

J
Jarad Zimbler
A
Anna Girling
E
Eloise Forestier
3.2. Visual Worlds: Art, Image, Illustration

Chair: Mary Ikoniadou (Leeds School of Arts)

Room: Panorama 

P
Poppy Sfakianaki
V
Veronica Bassini
A
Anna Namestnikov
3.3. The Making of Saudi Journals in the Twentieth Century

Chair: Barbara Winckler (University of Münster / Orient-Institut Beirut) 

Room: Studio 

H
Hasan Alsulami
A
Ali Alnahhabi
S
Samaher Aldhamen
I
Ibrahim Alfraih
3.4. Postgraduate Workshop (III)

Respondent: Maaike Koffeman (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

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”

Room: Concert 

09:30-10:30

Keynote by Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University) — “Changing Worlds — Rethinking Histories and Herstories in Global China: A View from the Entertainment Press, 2000s-2010s”

Chair: Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Auditorium 

Barbara Mittler picture
Barbara Mittler
10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

 Session 4

4.1. The World of Fashion

Chair: Evanghelia Stead (UVSQ)

Room: Panorama 

M
Maaheen Ahmed
K
Kirsten MacLeod
H
Henriette Partzsch
4.2. Global Approaches to Editorial Practices

Chair: Carlotta Castellani (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) 

Room: Auditorium 

B
Bianca da Luz
M
Merse Szeredi
P
Pappal Suneja
4.3. National Cultures in and through the Press

Chair: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) 

Room: Concert 

M
Marysa Demoor
M
Marcus G. Hibbeln
G
Giorgio Busi Rizzi
4.4. World-Making in East Asian Periodicals: Youth, Cosmopolitanism and World Literature

Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Studio 

S
Siu Hin Lam
K
Ka Chun Ho
K
Ka Ki Wong
12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Session 5

5.1. Nineteenth-Century Popular Print Culture

Chair: Brecht Deseure (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Room: Panorama 

S
Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery
H
Helen Craske
G
Gary Kelly
5.2. Portable Worlds: Periodicals, Travel and World History

Chair: Florian Deroo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Auditorium 

S
Scott T. Zukowski
J
Jakob Kihlberg
F
Françoise Baillet
5.3. Fin-de-siècle Periodicals

Chair: Marysa Demoor (Ghent University)

Room: Concert

A
Alex Murray
J
Julien Schuh
J
James Vliexs
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

Chair: Ka Ki Wong (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)

Room: Studio 

A
Andreas Eichleter
J
Jan Schmidt
A
Arend Bucher
15:00-15:30

Coffee

15:30-17:00

Session 6

6.1. Transnational Networks and Circulations

Chair: Benoît Crucifix (KBR/KU Leuven)

Room: Panorama 

W
Will Straw
C
Céline Mansanti
G
Giordano Panosetti
6.2. Magazines in the World / The World in Magazines: Supplements and Material Extensions of the Periodical

Chair: Sabina Fazli (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Room: Auditorium 

N
Nora Ramtke
A
Alice Morin
S
Samuel Bibby
6.3. Digital Approaches

Chair: Anna Namestnikov (Ghent University)

Room: Concert  

M
Morgane Ott
J
Jan Lampaert
6.4. Irish Writing and Periodical Cultures in Transnational Context

Chair: Eloise Forestier (Ghent University)

Room: Studio 

E
Elke D’hoker
S
Sinéad Moynihan
E
Elena Ogliari
19:00

Conference Dinner at Restaurant Boemvol (Rue Henri Maus 25)

09:15-10:45

Session 7

7.1. Between Heimat and Welt: Periodicals, Otherness and Cosmopolitan Imagination

Chair: Clément Dessy (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Room: Auditorium 

S
Sarah Borree
C
Christa Spreizer
E
Evi Heinz
7.2. Longitudinal Landscapes across Literary Journals

Chair: Elena Ogliari (University of Milan)

Room: Panorama

F
Francesca Billiani and Monica Jansen
M
Matteo Brera
M
Maria Bonaria Urban
7.3. Socialist and Marxist Periodicals

Chair: Sophie van den Elzen (Universiteit Utrecht)

Room: Studio 

J
Jelena Lalatović
J
Jay Kerslake
S
Stanislava Barać
7.4. Disseminating Knowledge

Chair: Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Room: Concert 

H
Hervé Goerger
F
Fabio Guidali
M
Monika Bednarczuk
10:45-11:15

Coffee

11:15-12:45

Session 8

8.1. Magazines as Worlds and the Worlding of Magazines

Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Room: Auditorium 

J
Jutta Ernst
S
Sabina Fazli and Scott Hames
O
Oliver Scheiding
8.2. Poetry and the Visual Arts

Chair: Marcela Scibiorska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Room: Panorama 

S
Stéphane Cunescu
C
Caterina Caputo and Maria Elena Minuto
8.3. Children's Periodicals

Chair: Benoît Crucifix (KBR/KU Leuven)

Room: Concert 

K
Kin-Wai Amelia Chu
M
Manuela Di Franco and Eva Van de Wiele
S
Sofie Vandepitte
12:45 – 14:00

Lunch and ESPRit AGM

Room: Auditorium 

link to Teams

14:00-15:30

Session 9

9.1. Forms of Dissent

Chair: Marianne Van Remoortel (Ghent University)

Room: Auditorium 

C
Charlotte Reihs
S
Sophie van den Elzen
9.2. Periodicals as Visual and Material Worlds: Circulation, Infrastructure, and the Negotiation of Globality

Chair: Fabio Guidali (University of Milan)

Room: Panorama 

M
Mary Ikoniadou
C
Carlotta Castellani
V
Vincent Fröhlich
9.3. Commercial Perspectives

Chair: Maaike Koffeman (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Room: Studio

M
Marcela Scibiorska
B
Barbora Svobodová
L
Laurel Brake
9.4. Provincialising the World: How Twentieth-Century English County Magazines Constructed Their Worldview

Chair: Eva Van de Wiele (Ghent University)

Room: Concert 

A
Andrew Hobbs
N
Naomi Walker
M
Matt Davies
15:30-16:00

 Coffee

16:00-17:00

Keynote by Christopher Ouma (Duke University) — “Black Possibility: Small Magazines and Pan-African Imagination”

Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Room: Auditorium 

Christopher Ouma picture
Christopher Ouma
17:00-17:15

Concluding remarks and announcement ESPRit 2027 

Room: Auditorium