CALL FOR PAPERS
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/>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? The conference invites a wide
range of approaches to these questions from
scholars in journalism studies, history,
sociology, media studies, criminology,
linguistics, politics and other disciplines
which make use of journalism sources. Papers
may include specific case studies of journalism
from any era; theoretical perspectives on the
relationship between journalism and history; the
reflections of journalists or former
journalists; thoughts on the exploitation of
digital resources as research or teaching tools;
discussions of the pedagogical use of journalism
texts. The conference also encourages the
broadest appreciation of journalism from radio
to television; from pamphlets to magazines; from
printed newspapers to newsreel.
Confirmed 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.
Dr 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.
A selection of papers will be published in a
special issue of Media History in 2012 and
further special editions of other peer-reviewed
journals are planned drawing on papers from the conference.
There will be a charge of £30 to cover the costs
of the day which includes a buffet lunch and coffee.
Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Dr
Martin Conboy
<mailto:(m.conboy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)>(m.conboy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 May.
