[ecrea] CFP: 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 regional and 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 (atd.finkelstein /at/ ed.ac.uk).
Presentation proposals of 300-500 words should be sent by 30 April
(2015toSuzanne.Spalding /at/ ed.ac.uk), outlining which strand of the call
will be addressed.


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