[spectre] CFP: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies (Budapest, 8-9 Sep 22)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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 2022esprit at 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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