mercoledì 28 giugno 2017 - venerdì, 30 giugno 2017
Conflict is at the core of periodical publishing. Disputes constructed and played out on the periodical stage have been periodical themselves, recurring, though under different names and formats, in different periods from the eighteenth-century to the present day. There is often an inherently militant aspect to the promulgation of ideologies in the periodical press.
However, the spectacularization of conflict accompanying recent events has made this key feature of the periodical press particularly visible and urgent.
The 2017 ESPRit Conference seeks to explore from interdisciplinary perspectives how the periodical press mediates and remediates conflicts, including how verbal and visual devices on the periodicals’ pages enact conflict. ESPRit encourages proposals that speak both within and across local, regional and national boundaries and especially those that are able to offer a comparative perspective.
Keynote speakers:Zahra MUSTAFA AWAD, University of Jordan
Anna BALDINI, Università per Stranieri di Siena
Andrew THACKER, Nottingham Trent University
The Sixth Annual Conference of ESPRit has been organized by the Research Group on
“Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Periodicals: Between the Avant-gardes and Postmodernism” - Department of Comparative Literature and Linguistics of IULM.
Scientific Committee:Paolo GIOVANNETTIPaola CARBONEMara LOGALDOAndrea Chiurato
The event is open to the public
