Workshop: Periodicals in Focus: Methodological Approaches and Theoretical Frameworks

An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop

Workshop Program

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017                   

Weinhaus Wilhelmi (Rheinstr. 53, 55116 Mainz)

19.00    Conference Warming

 

Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017

Philosophicum II, Jakob-Welder-Weg 20, room 00-212

9.00      Opening of Workshop: Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver Scheiding

9.15      Welcome Address

9.30      Madleen Podewski (FU Berlin): “What Is the Object of Periodical Studies? Some Suggestions for a Theory of the Periodical.”

10.00    Nicola Kaminski (U Bochum): “Konzeptuelle Überlegungen zu den Stichworten ‘Journalliteratur’ und ‘Materialphilologie’”

10.30    Matthew Philpotts (U of Liverpool): “Towards Periodical Texture.”

11.00    Discussion

 

12.00    Lunch Break

 

13.00    Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarland U): “Transatlantic Mediators: Cultural Transfers and Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press Between France, the USA and Francophone Canada, 18th-20th Centuries – Theoretical Approaches and Case Studies (Fleury Mesplet, Paul-Marc Sauvalle).”

13.30    Anaïs Nagel (U Strasbourg/Saarland U): “Questioning the Periodical Press in the Upper Rhine (1780-1810): Cultural Transfers and Cross-Border Figures – Which Methodological Approach?”

14.00    Discussion

14.30    Tomas Sommadossi (FU Berlin): “Berlin Rom Tokio (1939-1944): Mehrsprachige Propaganda im “weltpolitischen Dreieck””

15:00    Luise von Flotow (U of Ottawa): “Translation, Academic Journals and the Dissemination of Knowledge.”

15:30    Discussion

 

16:00    Coffee Break

 

16:30    Anne-Julia Zwierlein (U Regensburg): “Periodicity and Participation: Late 19th-Century Popular Weeklies and/as Metropolitan Culture Institutions.”

17:00    Vincent Fröhlich (U Marburg): “Serial Challenges: Dealing with the Many Forms of Seriality Found in Magazines.”

17:30    Discussion

 

Restaurant Heiliggeist (Rentengasse 2, 55116 Mainz)

19.00    Dinner

 

Friday, Dec. 15, 2017

Philosophicum II, Jakob-Welder-Weg 20, room 00-212

9.00      Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City U): “Millions of Old Newspapers: Back Number Budd and the Materiality of the Periodical.”

9.30      Maximilian Kutzner (U Würzburg): “Methodical Approaches to Digital Full-Text Archives in Historiography – The History of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.”

10:00    Mark Noonan (The City U of New York): “At John Holt’s Tomb: In Search of Lost Space in the City of Print.”

10:30    Discussion and Wrap-Up

 

Trattoria Da Arnaldo (Wallstr. 56, 55122 Mainz)

12.00    Lunch