UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
in association with Birkbeck College

“Rigid boundaries of space and time”: 

Writing, Editing and Reading Periodicals

Postgraduate Conference

20 June 2003

Programme

9:00-9:30 Registration 

9:30-11:00 Session I

Sabine Clemm, University of Southampton, “‘A multitude moved by one sympathy’: The Construction of an Imagined Community in Household Words

Francesca Benatti, National University of Ireland, Galway, “‘On New and Exclusively National Ground’: George Petrie and the Dublin Penny Journal

Nicola Gauld, Aberdeen University, “The Spectacle of the Beast”

11:00-11:30 Tea

 11:30-1:00 Session II

Katerina Loukopoulou, Birkbeck, University of London, “Art Periodicals in Britain: The Case of Studio International

Julia Jones, Roehampton University of Surrey, ‘Uncle is such a fool’: publishing a New Boys’ Paper 1886”

Eric White, Clare College, University of Cambridge, “The Editorial Poetics of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse 

1:00-2:00 Lunch (Own arrangements)

 2:00-3:30 Session III

Harriet Knight, Birkbeck, University of London, “The Early Philosophical Transactions

Marie Banfield, Birkbeck, University of London, “‘Every Facility for Speaking Out’: The Westminster Review in the 1850s”

Adam Trexler, Queen Mary, University of London, “Orage and the New Age: A Discursive Theory of Editorship”

3:30-4:00 Tea

 4:00-5:00 Plenary Speaker: Laurel Brake, Birkbeck, University of London

“State of Play: The Sociology of Texts and the Politics of (19C) Print Culture” 

5:00- Drinks

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Registration Fees: £10 for first 40 student registrations, £15 for students thereafter, £25 standard. 
For further information contact Laurie Garrison or Jim Mussell: lauriegarrison@yahoo.co.uk, jimm