[Commlist] Periodicals and Belonging: CfP: European Society for Periodical Research conference

Periodicals and Belonging: CfP: European Society for Periodical Research 
conference
27-29 June 2023, *Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Deadline 31 January 2023
apologies for cross-posting

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 11th annual conference of the European 
Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), which will be held in Leeds, 
UK, on the theme of */Periodicals and Belonging/*.This fruitful and 
timely theme is designed to encourage discussions and collaborations on 
the ways that ideas, emotions, declarations and imaginings, of belonging 
or not belonging, manifest in relation to periodical production and 
reception.

The notion of belonging to a family, a local culture, a national, 
regional and international group, or a diaspora, including a host of 
cultural and political ideas, is intrinsic to periodical studies, as is 
research on communities of authors/contributors,readers, literature and 
the arts, history, cultural history, linguistics, sociology and memory 
studies amongst other disciplines. Constitutive to *belonging*, is the 
notion of *not belonging*, and as such, we are interested in exploring 
themes of exclusion, forms of othering, racialisation, agonism and conflict.

The conference aims to further problematise concepts of association and 
organisation such as communities (e.g. ‘imagined communities’, 
‘interpretive communities’), groups etc., to periodical readerships; 
enquire into notions of belonging as oppression (periodical policing of 
boundaries, identities or stereotypes); the use of belonging in 
marketing/advertising of periodicals, and the role of labour in 
periodical production (e.g., staff who belong loyally to one publication 
versus freelance journalists who sell their labour to many titles).
Lastly, the conference will consider periodicals as visual and material 
objects that belong to certain places and spaces (e.g., when used as 
props or symbols by artists, photographers, film directors and others, 
or in dentists’ waiting rooms), as well as in circulation and movement 
across geopolitical locations and chronological periods.

 We are particularly interested in exploring:

  * Periodical groups and communities (diasporas; artistic; literary; 
feminist; LGBTQ/H; and, or ethnic groups/cultures; language variants 
(dialects and sociolects, slang, etc); children; youth; subcultures; 
identities; academic fields; social, political and professional communities)
 * Periodical communities of readers (explored through case studies 
and/or specifics and/or theoretically), including genres, formats, 
classifications or hierarchies; in relation to geography and geopolitics 
(local, regional national, European, ‘Western’, 'other', residents, 
indigenous, host, exiles, expatriates, colonisers and colonised, 
migrants and refugees whilst simultaneously interrogate notions of home, 
homeland, Heimat and terroir, mobility and [im]mobility).

The conference is hosted by the *Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett 
University*, in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire in 
the UK. We aim for linguistic inclusiveness by welcoming multilingual 
presentations with primary material in the original language accompanied 
by a translation into English. The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 
2023.

We welcome proposals from researchers at all career stages.

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
(ESPRit23 /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)

We also welcome proposals for joint panels of three papers, and for 
round tables or other formats. Please include a brief rationale for the 
panel or round table along with an abstract and CV for each presenter.

Full call here: 
https://www.espr-it.eu/news/events/170-esprit-conference-2023

*ESPRit 2023 Organising Committee: *
Dr Mary Ikoniadou, Leeds School of Arts (m.Ikoniadou /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(m.Ikoniadou /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)>,
Dr Andrew Hobbs, UCLan (AHobbs2 /at/ uclan.ac.uk) <mailto:(AHobbs2 /at/ uclan.ac.uk)>
Dr Annemarie McAllister, UCLan (AMcallister1 /at/ uclan.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(AMcallister1 /at/ uclan.ac.uk)>

*ESPRit 2023 Scientific Committee*:
Prof. Fionnuala Dillane, University College Dublin
Prof. Brian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University
Prof. James Mussell, University of Leeds
Prof. Simon Morris, Leeds Beckett University
Dr. Nora Ramtke, Ruhr University Bochum


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