On March 31, Lois Burke and Kristie Blair (University of Sterling) will lead a discussion on “Research Directions in Manuscript Magazine Studies,” and on April 22, 2026, Oliver Scheiding, Sabina Fazli, and Frank Newton are invited to speak at the Stirling Magazines and Periodical Research Group, introducing Transnational, Indigenous, and Post-Digital Magazines Cultures.
Date: December 4, 2024
Venue: Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Stiftungshaus, STH 2, Room 106 (Ground Floor), 55128 Mainz
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:15 Scott Zukowski (Graz): “Black Ink, White Space: Visualizing Black Citizenship in Freedom’s Journal”
10:30 Barbara Korte (Freiburg): “Travel in Victorian Periodicals: Media Logic and Cultural Work”
11:45 Céline Mansanti (Amiens): “Transnational Cultural Transfers and Periodicals: Perspectives and Challenges”
12:45 Lunch (Baron, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 3, 55128 Mainz)
14:15 Madleen Podewski (Berlin/Erfurt): „Die NBI (Neue Berliner Illustrierte) während der ‚Wende‘ oder: Wie erfasst man eine rasant beschleunigte Titeldynamik?“
15:30 Nora Ramtke (Bochum/Freiburg): “From Preprint to Piracy: Heinrich Böll’s Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum as a 1970s Press Affair”
16:45 Jörg Requate (Kassel): “How Far Can We Push the Limits? The Satire Magazines Pardon/Titanic and Hara-Kiri/Charlie Hebdo and Their Handling of Social Taboo Topics”
17:45 Final Discussion
Date: December 4, 2024
Venue: Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Stiftungshaus, STH 2, Room 106 (Ground Floor), 55128 Mainz
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:15 Scott Zukowski (Graz): “Black Ink, White Space: Visualizing Black Citizenship in Freedom’s Journal”
10:30 Barbara Korte (Freiburg): “Travel in Victorian Periodicals: Media Logic and Cultural Work”
11:45 Céline Mansanti (Amiens): “Transnational Cultural Transfers and Periodicals: Perspectives and Challenges”
12:45 Lunch (Baron, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 3, 55128 Mainz)
14:15 Madleen Podewski (Berlin/Erfurt): „Die NBI (Neue Berliner Illustrierte) während der ‚Wende‘ oder: Wie erfasst man eine rasant beschleunigte Titeldynamik?“
15:30 Nora Ramtke (Bochum/Freiburg): “From Preprint to Piracy: Heinrich Böll’s Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum as a 1970s Press Affair”
16:45 Jörg Requate (Kassel): “How Far Can We Push the Limits? The Satire Magazines Pardon/Titanic and Hara-Kiri/Charlie Hebdo and Their Handling of Social Taboo Topics”
17:45 Final Discussion
19:30 Dinner
