Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS)
@esprit-jeps.bsky.social
Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
CfP reminder: submissions are still open for JEPS 12.2 (Winter 2027)! We welcome articles on periodicals from the 17th century to today, across disciplines. 📆 Deadline: 1 December 2026. 📩 Submit: openjournals/ugent.be/jeps #periodicalstudies #cfp #callforsubmissions #articles #jeps
Coming up in Marburg next week, 9-10 Oct. 2026: "Periodicals and Their Practices of Selection: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", co-organised by our Review Editor, Florian Gödel (@goedelf.bsky.social)! More information and programme: periodicals.hypotheses.org/1927
Both amazing papers on transnational exchanges and the fight for free speech, from the Weimar Republic to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New York.
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS)@esprit-jeps.bsky.social · last mo.And now! 9.1. Forms of Dissent: Charlotte Reihs on Proletarian Periodicals & t/ Politics of Radio in the Weimar Republic, Sophie van den Elzen on black Dwarf(s), free Speech & t/ 1960s Global Student Movement, & Elizaveta Shatalova on Counterpublicity in Post-Soviet Digital Periodicals #ESPRit2026
Next up is @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social about Beatrice Tunstall (1889-1966): "Born and grew up in in Grappenhall. As a best selling novelist she based herself in Cheshire. Her subject matters were Cheshire customs, local histories and the countryside." —Warrington Women: An Historical A-Z #ESPRit2026
On my way back to Paris after three incredible days at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) for #ESPRit2026. Beyond the stimulating keynotes and panels, today's highlight was undoubtedly a tour of the library's printing museum with the lovely and knowledgeable Bart Op de Beeck. Many thanks to him!
After a final coffee break we'll close the conference with a keynote from the brilliant Christopher Ouma (Duke Uni), entitled: 'Black Possibility: Small Magazines & Pan-African Imagination'. The session will be chaired by none other than @esprit-jeps.bsky.social's editor-in-chief Cedric Van Dijck!
9.4. Provincialising the World: with @drewhobbs.bsky.social on the International Periphery Viewed from the Provincial Centre of the English Regional Mag., Naomi Walker on Women Writers Representing Their World in British Regional Mags, & Matt Davies on early editions of Cheshire Life mag.
9.3. Commercial Perspectives: Marcela Scibiorska, Transnational Perspectives on North Francophone Publishers’ Commercial Magazines, Barbora Svobodová on Corporate Periodicals in Bat’a’s Global Expansion, & Laurel Brake on the Itinerant Contributor and the Worlds of Magazines #ESPRit2026
9.2. Periodicals as Visual and Material Worlds: Mary Ikoniadou on Illustrated Periodicals and the Infrastructures of World-Making, Carlotta Castellani on Howardena Pindell and the Artists’ Magazines, & Vincent Fröhlich on Print Media Satellites and the Making of Film Culture
And now! 9.1. Forms of Dissent: Charlotte Reihs on Proletarian Periodicals & t/ Politics of Radio in the Weimar Republic, Sophie van den Elzen on black Dwarf(s), free Speech & t/ 1960s Global Student Movement, & Elizaveta Shatalova on Counterpublicity in Post-Soviet Digital Periodicals #ESPRit2026
8.4. Children's Periodicals: KW. A. Chu on t/ Children’s Paradise & t/ Global Networks of Sinophone Children’s Periodicals, M. Di Franco & E. Van de Wiele on Glocalizing Disney Periodicals: the 1990s Italian Minni & Co., & S. Vandepitte on t/ Children’s Mags Zonneland & Petits Belges by Averbode
8.3. llustrated Entertainment Periodicals in Postwar Italy: G. B. Rizzi on Domestication Politics, Travelling Imaginaries, & Auteur Comics Mags., N. F. Del Quercio on Negotiating Am. Culture in Fotoromanzi, & Costanza Paolillo on Transnat. Models & Industrial Periodicals in Photographic Culture
8.2. Poetry & the Visual Arts: S. Cunescu on Action Poétique & Banana Split as World- Periodical, F. Rondeau on The Internationalist Ambition of Phases, & C. Caputo & M. E. Minuto on International Networks & Cultural Engagement in Italian Verbo-Visual Periodicals of the 1970s: The Case of Tèchne
After coffee 8.1. Magazines as Worlds & t/ Worlding of Magazines: featuring Jutta Ernst on Exile Magazine’s Editorial Culture, Sabina Fazli & Scott Hames on Independent Magazines & Alternative Worlding, & Oliver Scheiding on Traditions & Visions: The Worldmaking of Indigenous Zines #ESPRit2026
It's a funny feeling to be hearing about the Toronto-based *Exile: A Literary Quarterly* (1972-today) in Brussels from German scholar Jutta Ernst! 👇 First issue exilequarterly.com #ESPRit2026
7.4. Disseminating Knowledge: H. Goerger on Oceanography against Terracentrism in t/ Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, F. Guidali on Radio Periodicals & t/ Visual Imaginatn of Global Space in t/ 1920s, & M. Bednarczuk on t/ Trzecie Oko & t/ Global Circulation of Esoteric Knowledge & Aesthetics
7.3. Socialist and Marxist Periodicals: Jelena Lalatović on Labour Migration & Proto- Environmentalist Debates in t/ Victorian Socialist Press, Jay Kerslake on the British Women’s Trade Union Magazine t/ Woman Worker & Stanislava Barać on Marksizam u svetu (Marxism in the World), 1974–89 #ESPRit2026
7.2. Longitudinal Landscapes acrss Lit Journals: Francesca Billiani & Monica Jansen on Architectural Traditions in Dutch & Italian Periodicals, Matteo Brera on Italian-Language Newsprs & Jim Crow South, & Maria Bonariabon on Tourism Writng as a Spatial Portrait of t/ Making of Fascist Italianness
7.1 features Sarah Borree — “Constructing Similarity and Otherness: Visual Culture and Colonial Imagination in Kolonie und Heimat” Christa Spreizer — “The ‘World’ of Die Welt der Frau & Evi Heinz — “‘Heimatlos': Cosmopolitan Culture in Der Querschnitt (1921-36)” #ESPRit2026
Back once again like the periodicals master we begin day 3 of our annual conference with Session 7. Beginning with 7.1. Between Heimat and Welt: Periodicals, Otherness and Cosmopolitan Imagination #ESPRit2026
Helen Craske used sources from: - @gallicabnf.bsky.social - @labnf.bsky.social Richelieu - her own collection Always interesting to hear about researchers collecting the materials they're working on! #ESPRit2026
Almanach du Fin de siècle...
Almanach du Fin de siècle... -- -- fascicules
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Sean Duffy@profduff.bsky.social · last yr.Reading room of the national library of France (BnF Richelieu)
Helen Craske's wider project is called "Saucy French Magazines: Gossip, Sex, and Art in Belle Époque Paris (1880-1914)" #ESPRit2026
Helen Craske
<p>Dr Helen Craske is a specialist of Belle Époque French literary and press culture. She is currently conducting a research project funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fondation Wiener-Anspa...
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Translation of the title by DeepL: *A Separate Library, or Sufficient Information and Impartial Reviews of Several, for the Most Part, New Books and Other Scholarly Matters* (1718) Nora is interested in the supplement being "abgesonderte", or "separate" #ESPRit2026
Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last mo.Nora Ramtke discusses periodical supplements from the 1710s to the 1830s in the German states. 👇 the fronspiece of the *Abgesonderte Bibliothec oder zulängliche Nachrichten und unpartheyische Gutachten von einigen mehrenteils neuen Büchern und andern gelehrten Materien* (1718) #ESPRit2026
... a supplement described in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social catalogue as "Publication der Zeitschrift Europa", a reference to *Europa. Chronik der gebildeten Welt* by von August Lewald gegründete Zeitschrift (1835–1885) #ESPRit2026
American magazines sold alongside toilet paper in Australia. A form of cultural power, according to Celine Mansanti, talking about back copies of American pulp magazines #ESPRit2026
To close the day, art historian Samuel Bibby discusses cut-outs in British feminist periodicals in the 1970s-80s. He coined the term "paracodical objects" as an analogy to Gérard Genette's "paratextual", but he centres the material nature and physical (visual) qualities. #ESPRit2026
Fanning the Flames of Feminism: Activist Periodicals, Paracodical Objects, and the Politics of Participation
A magazine is often seen to be something perishable or ephemeral, superseded, for example, by the next issue: discardable, or at least much less likely to be kept than a book. In many instances, howev...
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6.4. Irish Writing & Periodical Cultures in a Transnational Context: w/ Elke D’hoker on International Short Fiction in Irish Literary Mags, Sinéad Moynihan on Irish Writers, Failure & The New Yorker, & Elena Ogliari on the Dublin Magazine, Irish-Jewish Networks and Pluralist World-Making #ESPRit2026
6.3. Digital Approaches: featuring Morgane Ott on Performing the Illustrated Press: Rotogravure in Belgian Interwar Family Magazines Networks and the Context of World’s Fairs & Jan Lampaert on Visual Network Analysis as Method: Rethinking the Flemish Literary Underground (1966-69) #ESPRit2026
