Registration
Welcome and Introduction
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)
Coffee
Session 1
Chair: Scott T. Zukowski (University of Graz)
Chair: Dirk Vanden Berghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Morgane Ott (Royal Library of Belgium)
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”
Lunch
Session 2
Chair: Rikus van Eeden (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Dirk Vanden Berghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Coffee
Session 3
Chair: Florence Le Cam (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Chair: Mary Ikoniadou (Leeds School of Arts)
Chair: Barbara Winckler (University of Münster / Orient-Institut Beirut)
Keynote by Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University) — “Changing Worlds — Rethinking Histories and Herstories in Global China: A View from the Entertainment Press, 2000s-2010s”
Coffee
Session 4
Chair: Evanghelia Stead (UVSQ)
Chair: Carlotta Castellani (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Chair: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester)
Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Lunch
Session 5
Chair: Brecht Deseure (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Chair: Florian Deroo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Marysa Demoor (Ghent University)
Chair: Ka Ki Wong (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)
Coffee
Session 6
Chair: Benoît Crucifix (KBR/KU Leuven)
Chair: Sabina Fazli (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Chair: Anna Namestnikov (Ghent University)
Chair: Eloise Forestier (Ghent University)
Conference Dinner at Restaurant Boemvol (Rue Henri Maus 25)
Session 7
Chair: Clément Dessy (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Chair: Elena Ogliari (University of Milan)
Chair: Sophie van den Elzen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Coffee
Session 8
Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Marcela Scibiorska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Chair: Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven)
Chair: Benoît Crucifix (KBR/KU Leuven)
Lunch and ESPRit Business Meeting
Session 9
9.1. Forms of Dissent
Chair: Marianne Van Remoortel (Ghent University)
Charlotte Reihs (University of Vienna) — “Building a Counter-Archive: 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
Chair: Fabio Giudali (University of Milan)
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 (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)— “The Film Periodical as a World: Print Media Satellites and the Making of Film Culture”
9.3. Commercial Perspectives
Chair: Maaike Koffeman (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
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
Chair: Eva Van de Wiele (Ghent University)
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”
Chair: Marianne Van Remoortel (Ghent University)
Chair: Fabio Giudali (University of Milan)
Chair: Maaike Koffeman (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Chair: Eva Van de Wiele (Ghent University)
Coffee
Keynote by Christopher Ouma (Duke University) — “Black Possibility: Small Magazines and Pan-African Imagination”
Concluding remarks and announcement ESPRit 2027