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[ecrea] Journalism and History Conference

Mon Feb 15 12:42:23 GMT 2010



CALL FOR PAPERS

Journalism and History: Dialogues

15 September 2010: Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield

This interdisciplinary one-day conference, organized by the Department of Journalism Studies and the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, will explore dialogues between journalism and history. The conference will signal the launch of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History at the University of Sheffield: <http://www.journalism-history.dept.shef.ac.uk/>http://www.journalism-history.dept.shef.ac.uk/ It will address questions such as: how do historians and a wide range of scholars from other disciplines engage with journalism as a source? How does journalism relate to history in its processes and editorial practices? How is the increasing availability of digital archives of journalism impacting upon academic work and upon journalism? The conference invites a wide range of approaches to these questions from scholars in journalism studies, history, sociology, media studies, criminology, linguistics, politics and other disciplines which make use of journalism sources. Papers may include specific case studies of journalism from any era; theoretical perspectives on the relationship between journalism and history; the reflections of journalists or former journalists; thoughts on the exploitation of digital resources as research or teaching tools; discussions of the pedagogical use of journalism texts. The conference also encourages the broadest appreciation of journalism from radio to television; from pamphlets to magazines; from printed newspapers to newsreel.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

David Culbert is John L. Loos Professor, Louisiana State University; widely published on the history of propaganda in the mass media and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

Dr Jason McElligott works at the Trinity Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities research institute at Trinity College Dublin. He has broad interests in early-modern print culture, and is the author of Censorship and the Press, 1640-1660 (2009) and Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (2007). He has recently edited collections of essays on the politics of conflict in the 1680s, and the history, literature and culture of royalism during the 1640s and 1650s.

A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of Media History in 2012 and further special editions of other peer-reviewed journals are planned drawing on papers from the conference.

There will be a charge of £30 to cover the costs of the day which includes a buffet lunch and coffee.

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Dr Martin Conboy <mailto:(m.conboy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)>(m.conboy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 May.

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