[ecrea] CFP Press History conference Edinburgh

*Call for Paper Proposals*

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*Communities of Communication II: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain
and Ireland from 1800 to 1900*

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*10-11 September 2015, University of Edinburgh*

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*Organised by the Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh*

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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 19^th  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 19^th  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)
<mailto:(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
<http://www.ccii.hss.ed.ac.uk/>, outlining which strand of the call will
be addressed. New Deadline: Friday 8 May 2015

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