Friday, September 10
9am CST/3pm BST (60 min)
1A. Niche and Trade Periodicals
- Ellen Packham, “‘Intimately Connected with the Profession’: The Evolution of Dedicated Engineering Periodicals”
- Laura Kasson Fiss, Andrew Fiss, and Michelle Jarive-Eggart, “‘Pioneer of the Technical and Trade Press of the World’: Mining Periodicals in the Holdings of Michigan Technological University”
- Jamie Horrocks, “‘An Organ of Their Own’: Print Trade Journals and the Evolution of Graphic Design Thinking”
- Anne Rodrick, “The Circulation of Knowledge-Based Culture: The Journal of the Society of Arts, 1852-1870”
- Jesse Cordes Selbin, “The British Controversialist and the Evolution of ‘Both Sides’”
Chair: Kristin Kondrlik
1B. Revolutionary Periodicals in Circulations: Transnational Anarchism and the Victorian Press
- Aileen Lichtenstein, “German Anarchist Newspapers at Home and Abroad: Mapping a Transnational Movement through Print Circulations, 1878-1914”
- Constance Bantman, “Revolutions in Print: The London Series of Le Père Peinard (1894-95) and its Networks”
- Shaun Pitt, “Evolution and Revolution in Anarchist and ‘New Liberal’ Journalistic Networks (1886-1921)”
- Lara Green, “The Life and Death of Peter Kropotkin, 1881-1921: Terrorism, the Anarchist Body, and the Russian Revolution in the British Press”
Chair: Clare Stainthorp
15 minute break
10:15 CST/4:15pm BST (60 min)
2A. Primary Sources on 19thC Periodicals
Marysa Demoor, Andrew King, Andrew Hobbs, Lisa Peters
Chair: Mark Turner
2B. Seriality
- Jessica Terekhov, “‘Publications Received’: Serials and Other Part Issues”
- Kristin Starkowski, “Circulating Copies: A Digital Approach to Defining ‘Originality’ in the Penny Press”
- James Mussell, “Trading in Death: Periodicals, Seriality, Ephemerality”
- Meghan Freeman, “‘Travelling Companions’: Henry James’s European Tour in the American Periodical Press”
Chair: Alison Hedley
2C. Spiritualism/Secularism
- Claire Stainthorp, “Growing a Revolution: Freethought Dialogue and Debate in the Secular Review/Agnostic Journal”
- Elizabeth Coggin Womack, “The Prayer and Prosperity Narratives of Jabez in The Quiver and Good Words”
Chair: Anne DeWitt
15 minute break
11:30 CST/5:30 BST (60 min)
3A. Women’s Labour and/in Periodicals
- Tara Giddens, “Gendered Spaces in Journalism: Kathleen Coleman’s Portrayal of Women Journalists and the Spaces They Occupied in Fact and Fiction”
- Sigrid Anderson, “Circulating Labor: Our Sisters Magazine and the Web of Women’s Work”
- Kaari Newman, “Anxieties of Aunthood in Anglo-American Periodicals”
Chair: Marion Grant
15 minute break
12:45 CST/6:45 BST (60 min)
4A. Materialities of Periodicals
- Iain Crawford, “Periodicals, Paper, and the End of the ‘Taxes on Knowledge’”
- Sophie Onorato, “Telegraphing the Franco-Prussian War: Technology, Timeliness and the English Daily Press, 1870-71”
- Beth Gaskell, “Short but Sweet or Fantastic Failures? Short-lived Newspapers in the 19th Century”
- Joanne Shattock, “Periodical Writers, Magazine Writers, Newspaper Writers: The Evolving Profession of Journalism”
- Lydia Craig, “Female Philanthropic Knitting” Lady Harriet Scott’s ‘Grandmother’ Patterns in The Queen”
Chair: Marie Léger-St-Jean
4B. Medical Rhetorics
- Kristin Kondrlik, “Circulating Stories of Leprosy: Eulogies of Father Damien and the Stigmatization of Colonial Leper Colonies in the Victorian Medical Press”
- Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, “From the German Flute to the Trying Hour: Circulating Queen Victoria’s Pregnancy News in the Periodical Press”
Chair: Alison Hedley
4C. Readers of Periodicals
- Barbara Onslow, “Periodicals: Circulation—or Circulating?”
- Iona Craig, “Reading Rooms and Periodical Circulation”
- Anton Kirchofer, “The Athenaeum Club Library Committee Records and the Order of Periodical Discourse: Reflections on Patterns of Participation and Privilege in the Victorian Periodical Market”
Chair: Andrew Hobbs