Conference Program: Transnational Periodical Cultures – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
“Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
January 29-31, 2020
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Helmholtz Institute, Room 1395-00-133/135 (Ground Floor)
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
16:30 Registration
17:00 Welcome
Jutta Ernst, Oliver Scheiding, Conference Organizers (JGU Mainz)
Stefan Müller-Stach, Vice President for Research and Early Career Academics (JGU Mainz)
Michael Schreiber, Dean of the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies (JGU Mainz)
Alfred Hornung, Director of the Obama Institute (JGU Mainz)
17:30 Opening Remarks
Jean Lee Cole, Editor of American Periodicals (Loyola U, Baltimore)
Timothy Holmes on behalf of the conference series “Mapping the Magazine” (U of Cardiff)
17:45-19:00 Keynote Address 1
Chair: Oliver Scheiding
Jeremy Leslie (MagCulture, London): “We Love Magazines”
19:00 Reception
Thursday, January 30, 2020
8:30-10:30 Session 1: Media Form and Agency
Chair: Alison Martin
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala U): “Greenwood’s Bath: Investigative Journalism and a Short History of Immersion”
Madleen Podewski (FU Berlin): „Text, materielles Objekt, Medium, Datenbank, ‚Archiv‘? Wie wir Zeitschriften modellieren“
Gustav Frank (LMU München): „Macht oder machen: Zur Modellierung der Agentialität periodischer Artefakte“
Kai Kauffmann (U Bielefeld): „Zeitschriften als Akteur? Alte und neue Methodenfragen der Zeitschriftenforschung nach dem praxeologischen ‚turn‘“
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 2: Markets and Institutions
Chair: Bjørn von Rimscha
Florian Freitag (U Duisburg-Essen) and Filippo Carlà-Uhink (U Potsdam): “The Archival Afterlife of Beefcake Magazines”
Franziska Oehmer (U de Fribourg): „Leistungen von Zeitschriften in pluralen und individualisierten Gesellschaften – differenzierungstheoretische Überlegungen und empirische Evidenz aus der Perspektive der Kommunikationswissenschaft“
Corinna Norrick-Rühl (JGU Mainz): “Custom Media in the Twentieth Century: Observations on Corporate Publishing and Customer Magazines”
13:00-14:45 Lunch
14:45-16:45 Session 3: Languages, Readers, Communities
Chair: Jutta Ernst
Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent U): “Modernist Magazines at Large”
Jean Lee Cole (Loyola U, Baltimore): “What’s so American about American Periodicals?”
Lianne Moyes (U de Montréal): “Tessera and the Cohabitation of Languages”
Daniela La Penna (U of Reading): “Making the Case for the Paradox of Embeddedness in Periodical Studies: Journal’s Performance, Habitus, and Networks in Fascist Florence”
16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:30 Keynote Address 2
Chair: Dagmar von Hoff (JGU Mainz)
Nicola Kaminski (U Bochum): „Konzept Leseszene: (wie) macht sich Journalliteratur sichtbar?“
Friday, January 31, 2020
9:00-10:30 Session 4: Materiality, Typography, and Design
Chair: Oliver Emrich
Ulysses Voelker (Hochschule Mainz): „Die Wirkung visueller Kommunikation auf die Bewertung von Information“
Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-U Frankfurt): “Becoming a Body: Magazine Cul tures in the 1960s and 1970s”
Sabina Fazli (Georg-August-U Göttingen): “‘Disruptive Content’: Momma Tried’s Experiments with the Magazine Form”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Session 5: Dynamics of Periodical Genres
Chair: Madleen Podewski
Lena Wetenkamp (JGU Mainz) and Christian Luckscheiter (HU Berlin): „Essay und ‚Rundschau‘-Rubrik als Generatoren transnationalen Denkens in der Neuen Rundschau (1918-1933)“
Ariane Martin (JGU Mainz): „Literatur, Kultur, Politik: Die Umfrage als Presseformat in den 1920er Jahren (am Beispiel Heinrich Manns)“
12:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Session 6: Networks and Digital Media
Chair: Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Sascha Wolfer (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim): “Exploring Lexical Change in 70 Years of Der Spiegel”
Timothy Holmes (Cardiff U): “Social Media Networks and Periodical Events”
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-17:15 Session 7: Emerging Scholars Forum
Chair: Patricia Plummer
Jana Keck (U Stuttgart): “The Nineteenth-Century Digitized German and German-American Press: Negotiating Slavery in a Transatlantic Context”
Whit Frazier Peterson (U Stuttgart): “Transnational Aesthetics in ‘Harlem Mecca’”
Michael Lörch (JGU Mainz): “Translational Readerships of an East German Academic Journal”
Mariana Hermanowski (JGU Mainz): “Materiality and Typography in Cuban Magazines”
17:15-18:30 Final Discussion/Roundtable
Oliver Emrich (JGU Mainz)
Jutta Ernst (JGU Mainz)
Silvia Hansen-Schirra (JGU Mainz)
Dagmar von Hoff (JGU Mainz)
Nicola Kaminski (U Bochum)
Alison Martin (JGU Mainz)
Patricia Plummer (U Duisburg-Essen)
Bjørn von Rimscha (JGU Mainz)
Oliver Scheiding (JGU Mainz)
19:30 Conference Dinner