[ecrea] Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to 1900

Call for Paper Proposals



Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain 
and Ireland from 1800 to 1900



10-11 September 2015, University of Edinburgh



Organised by the Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh



As part of an ongoing initiative to map current research in British and 
Irish press history, this conference will provide a forum for the 
discussion of a broad range of thematic and methodological approaches to 
nineteenth-century journalism. It follows on from a similar conference 
held at Sheffield University’s Center for Journalism Studies in 
September 2014.



This conference, like its 2014 predecessor, aims to contribute to a 
planned series on British and Irish newspapers and periodicals 
commissioned by Edinburgh University Press under the general editorship 
of Professor Martin Conboy (Sheffield) and Professor David Finkelstein 
(Edinburgh). It provides a significant opportunity for scholars to 
develop work based on fresh research, including the various digital 
resources now available.



We welcome papers addressing any of the following areas:



·       Individual publications of note; important/significant 
editors/owners/journalists

·       Thematic overviews, particularly ones that examine concepts such 
as the public sphere, definitions of the press in 19th century contexts, 
or the political economy of the press

·       Assessments of regionaland national identity, including the role 
of publications in articulating ethnic and gendered identities 
throughout the period across and within the 19th century nation states 
of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

·       The movement of print information across space and time

·       Print and media networks and communication structures

·       Contextualisations of press and newspaper activity within a 
social history of communication

·       Contextualisations of print media as shaped by technological, 
political and cultural forces

·       Surveys of the extension and expansion of readership

·       Patterns of migration and national, regional, global 
communication exchanges

·       Analyses of newspaper and periodical publishing in specific 
cities or regions

·       The newspaper and periodical press as a physical artifact

·       Aspects of visual culture, including graphic design, 
illustration and technological developments in both newspaper and 
periodical press.

·       The commodification and professionalisation of journalism and 
the periodical press

·       The role of the reader in press interactions, such as through 
letters pages, editorials and responses to and engagements with media 
campaigns.





20-minute presentations are invited which engage with any of the broad 
themes above.  Queries re the planned programme or initiative can be 
directed to Prof. David Finkelstein at (d.finkelstein /at/ ed.ac.uk). 
Presentation proposals of 300-500 words should be sent by 30 April 2015 
to (Suzanne.Spalding /at/ ed.ac.uk), outlining which strand of the call will be 
addressed.



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