[ecrea] Journalism and History: Dialogues conference

>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/ 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?
>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.
>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.
>Other speakers include: Ivor Gaber, Stephen Dorril, Jane Chapman and John
>Tulloch.
>There will be a charge of £30 to cover the costs of the day which includes a
>buffet lunch and coffee.
>For more details, contact Dr Martin Conboy ((m.conboy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)) or Dr
>Adrian Bingham ((adrian.bingham /at/ sheffield.ac.uk))
>
>
>Online registration at
>https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=64&modid=1&prodid=309&deptid=9
>
>
>Journalism and History: Dialogues
>Conference Programme
>
>
>9.30 ­ 10.00 Registration
>
>9.30 ­ 10.30 Welcome and keynote
>
>10.30 ­ 12.00 Session 1 A
>Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives
>Dean Jobb (University of Kings College Halifax, Nova Scotia)
>Lampoons, shallow braind Politicians and underwitted Poets: Political
>commentary in Canadas early press 1752-1770
>Rory Pilossof (University of Sheffield)
>The history of white farmers in Zimbabwe through The Farmer magazine,
>c. 1980-2002.
>Jane Chapman and John Tulloch (University of Lincoln) FW Wilson ­ the first
>suggestion
>
>10.30 ­ 12.00 Session 1 B
>The Cold War
>Stephen Dorril (University of Huddersfield)
>The secret intelligence service and journalists during the Cold War
>Jan Cebe (Charles University Prague)
>The transformation of Czech media after World War II
>Simon Huxtable (Birkbeck College, University of London)
>What was Soviet journalism? Historical perspectives on the Soviet press,
>1917-1991
>
>12.00 ­ 12.15 Coffee
>
>12.15 ­ 1.00 Plenary
>
>1.00 ­ 1.45 Lunch
>
>1.45 ­ 3.15 Session 2A
>Journalism Across the Centuries
>Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire)
>The deleterious dominance of the Times in 
>nineteenth century journalism history
>Gary Rivett (University of Sheffield)
>English newsbooks and the Solemn League and Covenant: storytelling and the
>politics of the recent past, September-October 1643
>Richard Ward (University of Sheffield)
>Newspapers and the history of eighteenth-century crime and justice
>
>1.45 ­ 3.15 Session 2B
>Ireland
>Maurice Walsh (Kingston University)
>The repentant correspondent: Sir Philip Gibb and the war in Ireland 1919-1921.
>James T. ODonnell (Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway)
>The first draft of history: Irish newspapers in 
>the first half of the twentieth
>century as contemporary reporters and historical sources.
>Kevin Rafter (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin)
>E.J Dillon and the Irish born foreign correspondents
>
>3.15 - 3.30 Tea
>
>3.30 ­ 5.00 Session 3A
>Doing things Differently
>Bob Nicholson (University of Manchester)
>The digital turn: exploring the methodological potential of digital newspaper
>archives
>Sallie McNamara (Southampton Solent University)
>Lady Eleanor Smith: the society column 1927-1930
>Maria Obieta Vilallonga (University of Deusto)
>Europe from the outside: an image of European identity through post-war
>American
>media information.
>
>3.30 ­ 5.00 Session 3B
>Politics and Policy Making
>Ivor Gaber
>The decline and increasing irrelevance of the lobby
>Anita Howarth (Kingston University)
>Contested present, past associations: preparing to campaign against GM food.
>Jesse Hearns-Branaman (University of Leeds)
>Perspectives on the Fourth Estate: beyond truth and power
>
>5.00 Closing remarks and networking
>
>
>
>
>Journalism & History Conference
>15 September 2010
>
>Delegate information
>
>
>Venue: The conference will be held at the Humanities Research Institute, The
>University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY.
>
>Full directions are available online at
>http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/location/map.html
>
> From the train station it is about 10 minutes by tram, bus, or taxi, or 25-30
>minutes on foot.
>
>We will have laptops, data projectors, OHPs and 
>flip charts. Please let us know
>if you will require any other AV equipment.
>
>Accommodation:
>
>Leopold Hotel
>http://www.leopoldhotel.co.uk/
>
>Rutland Hotel
>http://www.rutlandhotel-sheffield.com/
>
>St Pauls Hotel
>http://www.mercure.com/mercure/fichehotel/gb/mer/6628/fiche_hotel.shtml
>
>Premier Inn, St Marys Gate, Young Street, Sheffield, S1 4UP
>http://www.premierinn.com/en/home.action
>
>The University also offers guest accommodation:
>http://www.shef.ac.uk/accommodation/guest
>

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