From: Gabor Dobo
Date: Dec 15, 2021
Subject: CFP: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies (Budapest, 8-9 Sep 22)
Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art
History (KEMKI) – Artpool, Sep 8–09, 2022
Deadline: Feb 28, 2022
For the first time in East-Central Europe, the European Society for
Periodical Research (ESPRit) convenes its 2022 (10th) international
conference in Budapest, Hungary, to focus on the following theme:
Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social
“Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press.
The conference should reflect on how periodicals challenge, transform or
interpret the notion of “centres” and “peripheries” in a context of
permanently shifting and historically unstable situations. Papers should
investigate these questions through essential forums of the public
sphere, namely periodicals, from the mid-18th century to the present
day. The generation of knowledge, social dialogue, and transnational
communication (both textual and visual) hosted by periodicals gave
visibility and platforms to politically and economically “peripheral”
areas, as well as socially marginalized groups. At the same time, other
journals provided means to maintain cultural and political hegemony of
“central” social classes or global powers.
We invite scholars to reflect on the ways periodicals represented,
created, maintained, or challenged, even deconstructed the notions of
“centre” and “periphery” as related to the status of their community,
audience, editorial board or geographical areas.
We are particularly interested in encounters, and negotiations between
geopolitical or social “centres” and “peripheries” taking place in
periodicals. The conference should focus on matters, including but not
limited to, such as:
- Theoretical reflections on “centres” and “peripheries” and the
possible contribution of Periodical Studies to define the shifting
meaning of this conceptual model
- Circulation, adaptability and reworking of periodical models and
genres, including the mainstream press; middlebrow periodicals and
“little magazines”
- Hybridity, performativity, materiality – how researching periodicals
opens up new perspectives in literary, art and media history?
- Shifting, emerging, and declining geopolitical centres and the press,
from the Napoleonic wars to the end of the Cold War and beyond
- Challenging the concept of “Eastern”, “Western”, “Southern” and
“Central” – the periodicals in the entangled history in Empires – from a
post-Empire perspective
- Colonization, decolonization, and the periodicals – a postcolonial
perspective
- The effect of dominant discourses on
marginal/”peripheral”/”provincial”/local contexts – and vice versa. -
The role of journals in social conversation, including the voice of
marginalized groups in/out of/against the mainstream press: the rise of
counter-publics in periodicals
- The diachronic and political dimension of artistic canons, and the
role of periodicals in canonizing, theorizing, and financing art and
culture - De-centring established cultural “centres” through a
transnational network of “little magazines”. Establishing “imagined
communities” (a term coined by Benedict Anderson) in periodicals
The working language of the conference is English. We welcome proposals
from researchers at all stages of advancement. Proposals of around 250
words (references not included) for 20-minute papers and a short CV (no
more than 200 words) should be sent to 2022esp...@gmail.com by February
28 2022. We also welcome proposals for joint panels of three papers.
Please include a brief rationale for the panel along with an abstract
and CV for each presenter. Updates can be found on the 10th ESPRit
Conference website, forthcoming.
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies (Budapest, 8-9 Sep 22). In:
ArtHist.net, Dec 15, 2021. <https://arthist.net/archive/35554>.
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