Nous commençons cette rentrée 2015/2016 par une modification en profondeur du site ConfigMed. Il s’agit également pour nous d’accueillir dans le projet deux membres récents qui bénéficient d’un post-doctorat de deux ans : Tijl Vanneste, qui a commencé à travailler au mois d’avril 2015 et Ana Belem Fernandes Castro, qui a commencé en juin 2015. Bienvenue à eux.
Enfin, vous trouverez ci-dessous l’annonce de deux conférences internationales auxquelles Francisco Apellaniz, qui entame sa seconde année de recherche dans le programme ERC, a participé la semaine dernière (cliquer ici pour le programme) et cette semaine.
Bridges and Boundaries:
Theories, Concepts and Sources in Communication History
An International Conference in Venice, Italy
September 16-18, 2015
Organizer: Communication History Section of the European Communication
Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Co-Sponsor: Centre for Early Modern Mapping, News and Networks (CEMMN.net)
Queen Mary University of London
Programm
Wednesday / September 16, 2015
Session 01: 7:15 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. / Winter Garden Restaurant – Hotel Papadopoli
The Opening Reception / Keynote Address
“What I Learned Studying the History of Communication in Venice”
Mario Infelise – Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy / Speaker
Thursday / September 17, 2015
Session 02: 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Communication History: Defining Our Objects of Inquiry / Panel Discussion
Pete Simonson – University of Colorado – Boulder, USA / Chair & Moderator
- James Hay – University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, USA
Towards a Historiography Suitable for a Critical Refrigerator Studies
- Yi Chen – University of Sussex – Brighton, United Kingdom
A Rhythmanalytical Study of Communication History
- Deborah Lubken – Independent Scholar – Philadelphia, USA
Older Media: A Brazen Approach
- Karen Barzman – Binghamton University, USA
Maps in the Early Modern Archive: A Genealogy of Portable, Display-Based Devices in Data Management and Communications
- Stefano Cristante – Università del Salento, Italy
The Ancestor’s Body and Other Stories: The Social Sciences and the Far Past of Communication
- Nella Lonza – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Ritual Executions of Penalties and the Criminal’s Body as Alternative Media of Communication in Medieval European Towns
Session 03: 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Theoretical Models and the Current State of Communication History Research / Panel Discussion
John Nerone – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA / Chair & Moderator
- Laura Skouvig – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
In the Gap: Information and Communication History
- Anne K. Diekjobst – Universität Konstanz, Germany
The Practice of Communication: Individual Addresses in the Late Middle Ages
contribution co-authored with: Michael Hohlstein – Universität Konstanz, Germany
- Peter Broks – Hereford College of Art, United Kingdom
Conceptual Space: Rethinking Communication as Embodied Relationships
- Hans-Ulrich Wagner – Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg, Germany
“Intervention” on Entanglements in Media History
contribution co-authored with: Marie Cronqvist – Lund University, Sweden; Hugh Chignell – Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom; Maike Helmers – Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom
- Balázs Sipos – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
How to Use Models to Examine the East-European Non-Democratic Media Systems in the 20th century
- Carlos Barrera – Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Communication History, the Social Sciences and the Humanities: Insights from a Journal Editor
Session 04: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Plenary Session / Masterclass
“Bridges, Boundaries, Benchmarks: Putting the History of Communications on the Map”
Richard R. John – Columbia University, New York, USA / Speaker
Session 05: 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room I
Neglected Dimension: Space and Place in Historical Communication Research / Panel Discussion
Deryck W. Holdsworth – The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA / Chair & Moderator
- Philip Lodge – Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
The Influence of Spatial Aspects on the Development of Communication Study in the United Kingdom
- Yvonne Robel – University of Bremen, Germany
Spatialization as a Part of Communication History
- Sabrina Corbellini – University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Cities of Readers: A Spatial Approach to Late Medieval Religious Literacies
contribution co-authored with: Margriet Hoogvliet – University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Simon Ganahl – University of Vienna, Austria
Media of Sovereignty, Disciplinarity, and Control
- Christian Schwarzenegger – Universität Augsburg, Germany
Locating the Whereabouts of History: Theoretical Reflections on the Place of Space in Communication History
contribution co-authored with: Anne Kaun – Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden
- Christian Oggolder – Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies – Vienna, Austria
Blurring Boundaries: Historical and Empirical Perspectives on the Relation of Physical and Virtual Space
contribution co-authored with: Caroline Roth-Ebner – Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Session 05: 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room II
Egodocuments and Other Primary Sources in the Age of Digitization / Panel Discussion
Rosa Salzberg – Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom / Chair & Moderator
- Stephan Sander-Faes – University of Zurich, Switzerland
‘We Shall Lie All Alike in Our Graves’: Ego Documents and the Reconstruction of Renaissance Communication
- Maria Rikitianskaia – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Communication History from Bellow: Finding “Ordinariness” in the Political Documents from the First World War
- Lars Lundgren – Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden
Ethnography in the Archive: Travelogues, Truths and Television
- Davide Boerio – Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy
Early Modern Avvisi and Big Data
- Diana Garrisi – University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Will the Nineteenth Century Press Save the Future of Journalism?
Session 06: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Public Sphere I: Old and New Challenges for Public Sphere Research / Panel Discussion
Susanne Kinnebrock – Universität Augsburg, Germany / Chair & Moderator
Elihu Katz – U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA / The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel / Guest of Honor
- Jeff Pooley – Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
The Collective Behavior Tradition in Chicago Sociology and the History of the Public
contribution co-authored with: Deborah Lubken – Independent Scholar – Philadelphia, USA
- Francescomaria Evangelisti – Independent Researcher – Rome, Italy
The Propaganda History Bridges
- Miguel Vazquez Liñan – Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Historical Memory, Media And Mediation
contribution co-authored with: Custodio Velasco Mesa – Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Merja Ellefson – Umeå University, Sweden
Questions of Place: Comparisons and Mediated History
- Manuel Menke – Universität Augsburg, Germany
Facts, Moods, and Memories: Respecting Nostalgia in Communication History
contribution co-authored with: Ekaterina Kalinina – Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden
- Daniela Calanca – Università di Bologna, Italy
New Media and Social Imaginaries in Contemporay Italy: Theories and Practices of Postsocial History
Friday / September 18, 2015
Session 07: 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Information Networks and the Rise of Modernity: Money, War, and God / Panel Discussion
Joad Raymond – Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom / Chair & Moderator
- Francisco Apellaniz – Université Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne), France
Mixed Networks in the Notarial Culture: The merchant communities of Damascus and Alexandria, 1300-1600
- Eric Dursteler – Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Reconstructing Information Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean
- Steven G. Marks – Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
The Information Nexus and the History of Capitalism
- Kathryn Montalbano – Columbia University, New York, USA
Religious Networks as New Media: Communication Studies and the Challenge of the Sacred
- Paul Nelles – Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Place, Mobility, and Materiality in Communicative Practice: The Case of the Society of Jesus (1540-1600)
- Javier Díaz Noci – Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Early Modern History and Communication in Spanish Language: Production, Dissemination and Audiences
- Massimo Petta – Independent Scholar, Italy
From Mountebanks to Professional Reporters: The Printed News Pamphlets Between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Session 08: 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room I
Communication Technologies I: Challenging the Notion of Print Revolution / Panel Discussion
Massimo Rospocher – Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento, Italy / Chair & Moderator
- Christian Schwarzenegger – Universität Augsburg, Germany
“Media and change” as an Emerging Area of Communication Studies and Bridge Between History and Communication?
contribution co-authored with: Susanne Kinnebrock – Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Mark Brewin – The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
The Rite vs. the Book: Communication History and Grand Narratives
- Agnes (Iok Fong) Lam – University of Macau, China
The Delayed Impact of the Gutenberg Storm: How did the Technology Discourse Conceptualize the Modern Chinese Press History?
- Louise Vermeersch – Ghent University, Belgium
Methodological Reflections on a Multimedial Approach to Early Modern Media
- Jürgen Wilke – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Theoretical Models in Historical News Flow Studies
Session 08: 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room II
Materiality Still Matters: Political Economies and Media Histories / Panel Discussion
Paschal Preston – Dublin City University, Ireland / Chair & Moderator
- Nelson Ribeiro – Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
‘New’ Media and Freedom of Speech
- Brice Nixon – University of La Verne, California, USA
Communication as Capital and the Exploitation of Audience Labor: A New Perspective on Communication History
- Steve Schiffers – City University, London, United Kingdom
The Press as Black Mirror: Constructing Austerity and the Lessons of History
contribution co-authored with: Sophie Knowles – City University, London, United Kingdom
- Marsha Siefert – Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Eurasian Empires and Telecommunication
- Michael Truscello – Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
Considering the Internet as an Infrastructure Megaproject
- Francesca Musiani – Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS) – Paris, France
How Materiality Matters in Studies of Born-Digital Heritage
contribution co-authored with: Valérie Schafer – Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS) – Paris, France
Session 09: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Plenary Session / Public Debate
“Reflecting on European Histories of Communication”
Gabriele Balbi – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland / Moderator
Peppino Ortoleva – Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy / Discussant
Andreas Fickers – Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg / Discussant
Jérôme Bourdon – Tel Aviv University, Israel / Discussant
Session 10: 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room I
Communication Technologies II: The Long History of Visual Media / Panel Discussion
Nelson Ribeiro – Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal / Chair & Moderator
‘New’ Media and Freedom of Speech
- Anthony Löwstedt – Webster University, Vienna, Austria
Media History and Anthropology: From Pictographic to Prographic Media
- Paola Valentini – Università di Firenze, Italy
Seeing Television, Seeing Images
- Massimo Scaglioni – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
The Challenge of Television History: A Neglected Discipline, or a Strong Model for Media Studies?
- Luca Barra – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
Television History: Trajectories, Sources and Research Paths inside Media Studies
- Isabelle Veyrat-Masson – Laboratoire Communication et Politique du CNRS, Paris, France
The End of the “Historical” Television?
- Jaroslav Švelch – Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Situating Digital Game Histories: Technology, User Cultures, and the “Local Turn”
Session 10: 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. / Parallel Session – Seminar Room II
Public Sphere II: Inter-Communal and Trans-National Imagined Communities / Panel Discussion
Juraj Kittler – St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, USA
- Trish Morgan – Maynooth University, Ireland
Bridges or Boundaries? The Contested Role of Mediated Communication in Modern Europe
contribution co-authored with: Paschal Preston – Dublin City University, Ireland
- Susanne Kinnebrock – Universität Augsburg, Germany
How to Deal with Networks and Dynamics in the Public Sphere?
contribution co-authored with: Helena Bilandzic – Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Sergei Kruk – Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Romanticism and Historicism vs. Public sphere
- Gideon Kouts – Université Paris 8, France
The “Jewish Network” Experience and its Role in the Formation of Modern Public Spheres
- Luca Zuccolo – Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), Venice, Italy
Rise of Public Opinion and Public Sphere in the Ottoman Empire within the Newspapers Network
- José Miguel Sardica – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
Rethinking History through Communication: The “Public Sphere” as a Civic “Imagined Community” in 19th century Portugal
Session 11: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Communication Technologies III: When the Newest Media Come of Age / Panel Discussion
Gabriele Balbi – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland / Chair & Moderator
- Jérôme Bourdon – Tel Aviv University, Israel
The Web and Print in History: Comparing Two Communication Revolutions
- Johan Jarlbrink – Umeå University, Sweden
Clipping Agencies in the News Networks 1900
- Simone Natale – Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Biographies of Media: On the role of Narratives and Storytelling in New Media’s Histories
- Marc Raboy – McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Myth and Invention in the Biography of Guglielmo Marconi
- Paolo Bory – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
What does “Doing Internet History” Mean?
contribution co-authored with: Gabriele Balbi – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
- Niels Brügger – Aarhus University, Denmark
The Danish Web Domain 1996-2015: Projects, Results, and Historigraphical Concerns
- Jane Winters – University of London, United Kingdom
Histories of Web Domains: Negotiating UK Web Space, 1996-2013
Session 12: 6:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. / Main Lecture Hall
Concluding Remarks
Conference Organizers:
Rosa Salzberg – Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom
Gabriele Balbi – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Juraj Kittler – St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, USA
Session 13: 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / T.B.A.
ECREA History Section / Business Meeting
Susanne Kinnebrock – Universität Augsburg, Germany
Chair of the ECREA Communication History Section
Saturday / September 19, 2015
Session 14: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Meeting Point: Scuola San Rocco
Cultural Program / Guided Tour
Rosa Salzberg – Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom
Juraj Kittler – St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, USA
