ESPRit Conference Programme

10.00–14.40

Postgraduate Workshop

Venue: Room B

Programme

14.40–15.30

Coffee break
 

15.30–16.00

Welcome addresses

Round table presentation of host institutions

Venue: Room B

Kristin Ewins, Board member, European Society for Periodical Research 

Gábor Dobó, Member of the Scientific Committee of ESPRit 2022, Research fellow, Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum

Dávid Fehér, Director, Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History

Merse Pál Szeredi, Director, Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum

16.00–17.30

Plenary presentations of the 2022 ESPRit prize winners

Chair: Nora Ramtke
Venue: Room B

Abstracts

Marianne Van Remoortel
Teaming Up in Periodical Studies: The Story of WeChangEd

Clare Pettitt
Beginning Again to Begin: Thinking About Serial Forms (online)

8.30–9.00

Registration
 

9.00–10.00

Keynote Session 1.

Aleksandar Bošković
“Moscow vs. Paris”: Interwar avant-garde periodicals as discursive sites

Chair: Merse Pál Szeredi
Venue: Room A

Abstract
 

10.00–10.30

Coffee break
 

10.30–12.00

Parallel Session 1.

Creating a counter-public for women and by women
 

Parallel Session 2.

The international scope of Yugoslav periodicals: Radical intelligentsia between the attainment of legitimacy and contestation (1913–1964)
 

Chair: Nora Ramtke
Venue: Room A

Abstracts

Chair: Jelena Lalatović
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Artemis Alexiou
Fenwick Miller’s The Woman’s Signal (3 October 1895 – 23 March 1899): Targeting the bourgeois reader from the periphery (online)
 

Jelena Milinković and Žarka Svirčev
Beginnings of Feminist press and the Yugoslav avant-garde context (online)
 

Eloïse Forestier
Challenging “centres” and “peripheries” through 19th century Swedish women’s press
 

Stanislava Barać and Zorana Simić
The Woman Today and its editors (1936–1940, 1943/4; 1946–1981): Centre/periphery dialectics
 

12.00–13.00

Lunch
 

13.00–14.30

Parallel Session 3.

How periodical time challenges centres and peripheries  
 

Parallel Session 4.

East of Paris
 

Annemarie McAllister
“To make new things familiar, and familiar things new”: The strategy of internal reprinting over time, 1900–1919
 

Eszter Balázs
The fall (and eventual reconstruction) of Paris as a main cultural centre in Hungarian periodicals during First World War and its aftermath
 

Andrew Hobbs
When is the county in Cheshire Life magazine, 1934–1963?
 

Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska
Between the Latin world and the East: L’Esprit nouveau and its Eastern readers
 

Maria Ikoniadou
The material collapsing of temporalities from the margins in Pyrsos magazine, 1961–1968
 

Magdolna Gucsa
Die Zone: Double resistance of a German community in Paris
 

14.30–15.00

Coffee break
 

15.00–16.30

Parallel Session 5.

Geopolitical hierarchies of centre and periphery in Europe and beyond
 

Parallel Session 6.

Promoting local self-understanding in the shadow of global powers in Cold War era
 

Chair: Evanghelia Stead
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Eszter Őze
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Hoda El Shakry
Re-worlding through Maghrebi cultural journals (online)
 

Halyna Hleba
The influence of the foreign banned professional photographic periodicals on late Soviet Ukrainian photography
 

Elizabeth Holt
Africa has now become an island: The Suez Canal and the Arabic periodical press (online)

Ekaterina Vasileva
Press as a bridge between "Orientals“: The role of Islam in Soviet diplomacy
 

16.30–17.00

Break
 

17.00–18.30

Parallel Session 7.

Challenging established genres in periodicals: A women's history perspective
 

Parallel Session 8.

Rethinking global print culture on the eve of the 21st century
 

Chair: Marianne Van Remoortel
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Emese Kürti
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Dario Boemia
Challenging the territories of literariness: The reviews of Neera‘s novels in Corriere della Sera (1883–1900)
 

Flóra Barkóczi
Promises of a global network: The utopistic expectations towards the Internet in digital periodicals of the 1990s in Hungary
 

Zsuzsa Török
Hungarian girls’ culture in the mid-19th century: Flóra Majthényi’s periodical Virágcsokor
 

18.30–20.30

Conference reception

9.00–10.00

Keynote Session 2. 

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
Plotting the geopolitics of 20th century illustrated periodicals: Heuristic distant viewing and the issue of centres and peripheries

Chair: Dávid Fehér
Venue: Room A

Abstract

10.00–11.30

Parallel Session 9.

Beyond centres and peripheries    
 

Parallel Session 10.

Multi-media periodicals of East Central European modernisms
 

Chair: Zsuzsa Török
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Gábor Dobó
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Levente T. Szabó
The first International Journal of Comparative Literature as little periodical: Early radical Eastern European Modernism and the emergence of comparative Literary Studies
 

Judit Galácz
Theatre on paper: MA, Musik- und Theaternummer, 1924

Marianne Van Remoortel, Lise Foket and Christophe Verbruggen
Periodical Studies beyond hierarchies: Teaching periodical poetry with Madoc (hybrid)
 

Maria Anna Rogucka
BLOK, Praesens, and a.r. group circle: Constructing graphic layouts for Polish and international works of art, manifestos, and poetry in avant-garde journals
 

(Withdrawn) Hubert van den Berg
Centres & peripheries: On the problematic of a popular distinction in Avant-Garde Studies (online)
 

Ágnes Anna Sebestyén
Centring around modern architecture: The notions of centre and periphery in relation to the Hungarian architectural magazine Tér és Forma
 

11.30–12.00

Coffee break
 

12.00–13.30

Parallel Session 11.

Decentring mass media 
   

Parallel Session 12.

Italian periodicals at the crossroads of the avant-garde (1916–1921)
 

Chair: Merse Pál Szeredi
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Carlotta Castellani
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Éva Fisli
Press prints on the table
 

Giuseppe Di Natale
Le Pagine (1916–1917) by Nicola Moscardelli, Giovanni Titta Rosa and Maria D’Arezzo
 

Fabio Guidali
How to survive a media epidemic: The Italian press coping with HIV/AIDS
 

Carlotta Castellani
Enrico Prampolini and the first series of Noi (1917–1920)
 

Stefano Locati
Mediating between Hollywood, Europe, and Autarky: Ideas on cinema in the Italian illustrated magazine Tempo during the Fascist regime (1939–1943)
 

Caterina Caputo
The European avant-garde through the pages of the magazines Procellaria (1917–1920) and Bleu (1920–1921)
 

13.30–14.30

Lunch
 

14.30–15.30

Guided tour in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool Art Research Center
 

Annual ESPRit Business Meeting (for members)
 

15.30–17.00

Parallel Session 13.

Materiality and transfers
 

Parallel Session 14.

Polarizing the public sphere
 

Chair: Gábor Dobó
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Dávid Fehér
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Meghan Forbes
Printing on the “periphery”: The intersection of art and technology in the interwar Czech avant-garde (online)
 

Tibor Kosztolánczy
Freedom fight or guerrilla marketing? Polarizing discursive strategies in the early years of Nyugat, a Hungarian periodical (1908–1910)
 

Nora Ramtke
Recirculation, index, supplements: Material aspects of the periodical making of Europe (1835–1844)
 

Maria Nikolopoulou
“To bring a ‘Happening’”: American counterculture in little magazines of the 1960s in Greece
 

Zoltán Szénási
Materiality and making meaning: The publication history of Mihály Babits’s Fortissimo
 

Matrona Paleou
Cultural mediations and publication culture in Greece: The case of the periodical (The) Tram (online)
 

17.00–17.30

Coffee break
 

17.30–19.00

Parallel Session 15.

Creating and maintaining centres
 

Parallel Session 16.

Building an audience: A transhistorical perspective
 

Chair: Dario Boemia
Venue: Room A

Abstracts
 

Chair: Eszter Balázs
Venue: Room B

Abstracts
 

Piroska Balogh
Anachronism or local cultural transfer? The role of Latin journalism in the publicity of the Hungarian Kingdom between 1750 and 1850
 

Marie Boivent
Periphery as central perspective: Strategies of displacement in artists’ periodicals
 

Giorgio Di Domenico
La Città di Riga, an Italian peripheral magazine from the 1970s
 

(Withdrawn) Júlia Fazekas
Changes in the cultural sphere: How the events of 1848/1849 affected Austrian and Hungarian magazines
 

Imre Zsolt Lengyel
Attracting attention for autonomous art with the help of nationalism and scare tactics: Publicity strategies of two literary journals in early 20th century Hungary
 

Barbara Winckler
What defines ‘centre’ vs ‘periphery’? Syrian-Lebanese women’s journals of the 1920s between dominant and marginal positions in society 

19.00–19.30

Closing plenary
 

10.00–12.00

Guided tour in the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum 

Venue: Kassák Museum, 1 Fő tér, H-1033 Budapest (meeting in front of the Kassák Museum)