[Commlist] CfP: Call for Papers: Periodicals and Visual Culture

*8th ESPRit CONFERENCE 2019, ATHENS, GREECE*

National Library of Greece

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

11-13 September 2019

PERIODICALS AND VISUAL CULTURE 
<http://www.espr-it.eu/news/events/105-call-for-papers-periodicals-and-visual-culture-11-13-september-2019-athens>

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The subject of the 2019 European Society for Periodical Research 
(ESPRit) Conference will be the visual culture of periodical literature, 
viewed in its broadest sense and in a comparative context. This approach 
is intended to encompass all visual aspects of periodicals, including 
typography, covers, format, illustration, fine and avant garde art, 
cartoons, advertising copy, photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, 
illustrated travel accounts and ethnographic studies, religious imagery, 
propaganda and all other dimensions of the visual culture of the printed 
page. Of particular interest are the development and use of new print 
technologies for the reproduction of images, the juxtapositions or 
interactions of imagery and text (at the level of the page or the 
opening, the issue or the series), the evolution of visual tropes/memes 
(for example in propaganda and advertising), innovation in design, the 
emergence of new markets, studies of reader reception of and engagement 
with visual cultures, the formal (legal) or informal (editorial) 
regulation of the printed image, and the influence of periodical 
illustration on art and photography more broadly and on the use of 
imagery in the daily press in particular.

The conference will draw on and enhance the current Greek Press History 
Workshop (ETMIET)/ Research Centre for Modern Greece (KENI), Panteion 
University research project on Greek twentieth-century popular print 
that seeks to establish the first fully-comprehensive archive of 
periodicals in Greece, in collaboration with the Journalists’ Union of 
Periodical and Electronic Press (ESPIT), and the National Library of 
Greece. Further dimensions that arise from the particular Greek 
experience, and which invite broader international comparative 
perspectives, include: (a) the relationships between the uses of imagery 
in the periodical literature of metropoles and diasporas; and (b) an 
exploration of the methodologies and the political economies of 
periodicals research, particularly under the current global 
circumstances of austerity for the Humanities in general.

The Conference theme itself will be illustrated with appropriate 
exhibitions and pop-up displays, for which a wider audience is also 
under consideration, including schools, in order to leave a more lasting 
legacy for the people of Greece.

Proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of the visual culture of 
periodicals, of any period or region, are invited for the 8th Conference 
of European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), which will be held 
in Athens in September 2019. Accepted proposals will be grouped into 
broadly congruent thematic panels, normally with three speakers in each.

Subjects may include the following:

  * illustrations
  * cartoons
  * formats
  * title and font design
  * advertising
  * photojournalism
  * fashion
  * portraiture
  * travel accounts
  * ethnographic studies
  * religious imagery
  * propaganda
  * the presence of periodicals (production, distribution or
    consumption) in visual culture more broadly
  * and other dimensions of the printed image
  * of particular interest are juxtapositions or interactions of imagery
    and text – either at the level of the page or the opening, the issue
    or the series.

In addition, we intend to organise specific workshop sessions on Greek 
periodicals and visual culture, consisting of panels and group proposals 
relating to, for example, covers, advertisements, layout etc. We also 
invite proposals for two atelier sessions, one for MA and PhD 
candidates, the other focused on a regionally-based ‘state of the 
discipline’ panel.

The conference will draw on and enhance the current Greek Press History 
Workshop (ETMIET)/ Research Centre for Modern Greece (KENI), Panteion 
University research project on Greek twentieth-century popular print 
that seeks to establish the first fully-comprehensive archive of 
periodicals in Greece, in collaboration with the Journalists’ Union of 
Periodical and Electronic Press (ESPIT), and the National Library of Greece.

The working language of the conference is English and Greek. We welcome 
proposals from researchers at all stages of their careers.

Proposals of around 250 words (references not included) for 20-minute 
papers and a short CV (no more than 200 words) should be sent to 
*(2019esprit /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(2019esprit /at/ gmail.com)> by *31 March 2019*.

We also welcome proposals for joint panels of three papers. Please 
include a brief rationale for the panel along with an abstract and CV 
for each presenter.


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