[ecrea] Call For Papers 'Exploring digital newspaper archives' Sheffield and 'The long popularization process: Anglo-American perspectives' New York

>AHRC RESEARCH NETWORK ­ CALL FOR PAPERS
>Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988
>AH/H038930/1
>Principal Investigator Dr Martin Conboy, Department of Journalism Studies,
>University of Sheffield
>
>We are calling for expressions of interest for the first two seminars of the
>AHRC-funded Research Network, one in Sheffield on 14 January 2011: Exploring
>digital newspaper archives and one in New York 
>as part of the Joint Journalism
>Historians Conference on 12 March 2011: The long popularization process:
>Anglo-American perspectives.
>
>Please send abstracts of 500 words to Administrative Assistant
>(Clare.Burke /at/ Sheffield.ac.uk) by the end of 
>October 2010 if you feel that you can
>make a significant contribution to either or both of the seminars. We have a
>limited amount of sponsorship available to support travel to both seminars and
>in some cases we can also pay for participants accommodation.
>
>Outline of the Research Network
>There is much work currently being undertaken in the history of newspapers in
>the USA and the UK and it is the purpose of this network to bring leading
>scholars in the field together to discuss how their research interrelates and
>how it can be enhanced by broader disciplinary dialogue drawing on the
>traditions and methodologies of history, language studies, literary studies,
>and journalism studies. This interdisciplinary project is made more urgent by
>the growing number of digital newspaper archives from the 19th and 20th
>centuries from the USA and the UK. As we move from a research economy of
>archive scarcity to one of plenty, we need to be able to set out a new, more
>integrated set of methodologies which enable the wealth and diversity of these
>resources to be more appropriately mined.
>Each of the seminars will seek to attract high quality, publishable research
>which contributes to the themes of the Research Network. The seminars, located
>as they are in the UK, the USA and Switzerland will aim to bring together
>leading researchers and emerging scholars so as to enhance the international
>and interdisciplinary ambitions of the project. The Research Network will also
>co-ordinate publication with the Media History Exchange, an archive and social
>network sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
>Aims and Objectives
>" To bring together scholars, researchers and information professionals to
>develop interdisciplinary approaches to the 
>study of digital newspaper archives
>in Britain and North America.
>" To investigate representations of popular culture in Anglo-American
>newspapers
>over the period 1833 to 1988.
>" To develop with colleagues from a range of cognate disciplines a set of
>agreed
>principles for a consistent methodology for the 
>investigation of the increasing
>number of digital archives of newspapers which would extend computer-assisted
>research in the humanities.
>" To establish a network of scholars and researchers which can sustain such
>dialogues beyond the scope of the project by setting up a clear set of
>publishing outcomes and future collaborations.
>" To provide a forum for dissemination of best practice in historical and
>linguistic research approaches to digital newspaper archives.
>" To develop the general area of Historical 
>Pragmatics by a series of sustained
>and focused investigations into a particular area of media language and social
>representation; representation of popular culture in newspapers.
>
>
>
>Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research
>and
>postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from archaeology
>and English literature to design and dance. Only applications of the highest
>quality and excellence are funded and the range of research supported by this
>investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but
>also
>contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the
>AHRC, please see our website www.ahrc.ac.uk

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