[ecrea] Call for Papers, Press History conference, Edinburgh

Conference website is now open for submissions to the following 
conference, deadline end of April 2015. Look forward to welcoming 
colleagues to Edinburgh in September.

Prof David Finkelstein

PhD, FEA, FRSA
Chair in Continuing Education
Head of the Office of Lifelong Learning
The University of Edinburgh

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 Centre 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 are pleased to note that Professor Aled 
Gruffydd Jones, Chief Executive and Librarian of the National Library of 
Wales, will give the keynote address.



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 can be submitted via the 
conference website at www.ccii.hss.ed.ac.uk, outlining which strand of 
the call will be addressed.



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