At the Crossroads of Modernity: Newspapers as miscellany from the 1880s - event schedule

At the Crossroads of Modernity: Newspapers as miscellany from the 1880s is a symposium hosted by the Centre for the 9 1免费版下 of Journalism and History. The event is open to academic staff from Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Take a look at the full schedule of talks below.

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9 - 9.15 am - Arrival and Welcome

9.15 - 10.45 am - Session 1: Technology, the visual and media interactions

Conner Scott (Sheffield), Newsreels as miscellany: ephemeral media, cinemagoing, and cultural democratisation in inter-war Britain鈥

(KCL), 鈥楨yes on the Prize: Aerial competitions and newspapers in the early 20th Century鈥

(St Andrews), Learn All About It: The Daily Mail, Filmstrips and Post-War Visual Education

10.45 - 11.05 am - Break

11.05 - 12.30pm -Session 2: Miscellany and popular politics

(Edge Hill), 鈥楻acism in the local press 鈥 Locality, race, and anti-alienism 1917-1926鈥

(UCFB), 鈥楨lection Events for Everyone 鈥 Roll up, Roll up: Popular Press, Politics, and Performance鈥

(Radboud), 鈥楾he Voice of the People? The Tabloid Press as a Pacesetter for Democratization in Postwar Britain鈥

12.30 - 1.30pm - Lunch

1.30 - 2.30pm - Plenary

2.30-3.45pm - Session 3: Miscellany and editorial strategy

(York St John) 鈥業ntermediality and the Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Periodical: The Women鈥檚 Penny Paper/ Woman鈥檚 Herald (27 Oct. 1888鈥 23 Apr. 1892)鈥

(Lingnan), 鈥楥rosswords for the Cause: Fascist Miscellany in Combat, ca. 1958-1967鈥

 and  (Zagreb), 鈥楥ontent and functional styles of the news on the back page of Croatian daily newspapers from 1960 to 2010鈥

3.45 - 4.00pm - Break

4 - 5.30pm - Session 4: Identity, place and meaning

(Derby), 鈥楽ensationalism in the provinces: tabloid culture and the construction of local identities in the late nineteenth-century British regional press鈥

(KCL), 鈥楰eyword search: unlocking nineteenth century newspapers and their miscellaneousness鈥

(Cambridge), 鈥樷淒ismal twaddle鈥? Newspaper poets on the newspaper poets of the South African War, 1899-1902鈥

5.30 - Close

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