Call for papers: La presse satirique illustrée au XIXe siècle

La rédaction des Cahiers Daumier, bulletin de l’Association des amis d’Honoré Daumier, sollicite les contributions pour les sections « Dossier » du numéro 5, à paraître à l’automne 2009. Le thème du dossier porte sur « La presse satirique illustrée au XIXe siècle ».

La rédaction des Cahiers Daumier lance un appel à contribution pour les sections “Dossier” de son numéro 5, à paraître à l’automne 2008.

Cette publication se présente comme un support de travail et de recherche autour de l’art de Daumier et, plus largement, de la caricature et du dessin de presse en France et à l’étranger, du XIXème au XXIème siècles. La revue milite pour une pluridisciplinarité et fait appel aussi bien aux spécialistes (historiens et historiens de l’art, conservateurs…) qu’aux personnalités du monde de l’art (artistes, collectionneurs…).

- La section “Dossier” est rédigée par des spécialistes sollicités sur un sujet précis. Le thème du numéro 5 est La presse satirique illustrée au XIXe siècle :

Depuis la création de La Caricature par Charles Philipon en 1830 aux feuilles de la fin du siècle (La Lune, L’Assiette au beurre, Le Grelot, Le Cri de Paris, Le Rire…), les journaux “amusants” ont essaimé en France tout au long du XIXe siècle : connus ou moins connus, ils ont tous eu recours à la caricature et fait appel à des illustrateurs demeurés célèbres : Caran d’Ache, Cham, Forain, André Gill, Hermann-Paul, Ibels, Robida, Steinlein, Willette… Pourtant, le sujet a été peu dépouillé. Les Cahiers Daumier se proposent donc de revenir sur ces journaux à travers des articles qui offriront un regard nouveau sur des revues déjà connues ou qui permettront au lecteur d’en découvrir d’autres.

Les contributions pourront également porter sur des revues satiriques illustrées étrangères.

Les textes sont à envoyer au format électronique avant le 15 mai 2009 à sophiepauliac@gmail.com

Announcement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Interacting with Print Research Group

Salary: CAD38,000 pa. Anticipated Start Date: 1 August 2009.

The Interacting with Print Research Group seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship starting 1 August 2009 for one year, with the possibility of reappointment for a further year. The research group is a joint initiative of McGill University and the Université de Montréal, which brings together scholars with an interest in British, French, German and Italian print cultures of the period 1700-1900, from departments of History (Susan Dalton, Université de Montréal), English (Tom Mole, McGill), German
(Andrew Piper, McGill), Art History (Richard Taws, McGill), and Comparative Literature (Nikola von Merveldt, Université de Montréal). Our current research, funded by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), focuses on how printed matter interacted with non-print
media, how individuals interacted with printed matter, and how they interacted with each other through the medium of print. The responsibilities of the postdoctoral fellow will include conducting research
in his/her field of specialization, participating in the activities of the research group, including our annual colloquium and graduate student workshop, and contributing to their administration. The postdoctoral fellow will receive a stipend of C$38,000 pa, and a research/travel allowance of C$2,000 pa. Opportunities for teaching may arise, which will be paid in addition to the fellowship stipend. The successful candidate will have completed a doctorate in a relevant discipline by July 2009, and will be
expected to reside in Montreal for the duration of the fellowship; knowledge of French is an advantage.

Please send a letter of application explaining your research interests and linking them to the aims of the Interacting with Print Group, together with a Curriculum Vitae, an abstract of your doctoral thesis, and the names of two referees, by 31 December 2008, to
Professor Tom Mole,
Interacting with Print Research Group
Department of English, McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T6
Canada.
Do not send letters of reference at this stage.
This position is subject to receipt of additional funding from FQRSC, which will be confirmed in Spring 2009.

More information can be found at http://interactingwithprint.mcgill.ca
Informal inquiries may be directed to interactingwithprint@mcgill.ca .

Call for papers: Fossilization and Evolution

The topic of this colloquium, “Fossilization and Evolution,” is broadly conceived to encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical perspectives. Contributions dealing with how F&E enter into the literary discourse, visual rhetoric, political, social and personal realms of nineteenth-century France are particularly welcome. All abstracts will be considered.
General Theme: Fossilization and Evolution (Stasis and Progress)

Fossilization and Evolution are two competing concepts that define and are defined by the nineteenth century. The work of Cuvier generalized the study of fossils in the early nineteenth century before Balzac examined the social fossils of the Restoration. In linguistics as well, the scientific words fossilisation and fossiliser appear in 1832 followed by the expression moeurs fossilisées by 1845. Fossils of the ancien régime appear in literature throughout the nineteenth century while debris from the past fills up antiquary shops and novels. Ironically, the discovery of the cro magnon fossils in 1868 contributed to the popularity of an evolutionary model of human and social development. From Darwin’s naturalist theory to Taine’s and Comte’s sociological applications to Zola and Maupassant’s fiction, evolution came to mark scientific and artistic thought, particularly in the late nineteenth century.

Fossilization implies digging up the past, organizing the past and the present into static categories. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

* Caricature
* Classification
* Collectors
* Types and Social Strata (Aristocracy, Bourgeoisie, Ouvrier, Femme et homme comme il faut, Commerçant, Forçat, Parisian, Provincial, etc.)
* Moeurs fossilisées
* Historical models (Pre-History, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, etc.)
* Literary –isms
* Dead languages
* Petrification
* Phrenology
* Idées reçues
* Underground (Subterranean, Subtextual, Subconscious)
* Legitimism
* Historical Novel
* Theater
* Fashion
* Le Démodé
* Species
* Archeology
* Cuvier, Balzac, Daumier, Mérimée, etc.
* Lavater
* Classicism

Evolution implies a biological progression as well as social, political, moral, linguistic and economic transformation. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

* Change
* Movement
* Le Progrès
* Positivism
* Futurism
* Social mobility
* Revolution
* Utopianism
* Socialism
* Sociology
* Darwin, Taine, Comte, Zola, Verne, Maupassant, etc.
* Fashion
* Republicanism
* Science
* Slang
* Dynamism
* Impressionism

Submissions

Submissions for individual papers or sessions (for session proposals, each participant should submit their own abstract to be evaluated separately) may be in French or English and should be in the form of an abstract (250-300 words) sent as an e-mail attachment in Word® (.doc or .rtf preferred). The deadline for all submissions is 15 March 2009. Please indicate your A/V requirements on your abstract.

Colloquium Email: NCFS@byu.edu
Colloquium Organizers: Corry Cropper and Daryl Lee
The Colloquium will be held 22-24 Oct., 2009 in Salt Lake City

Call for papers: Representing Political Figures in Mass Media (XVIIIth – XXIst century)

Culturhisto 2009: International Doctoral Candidates Conference on Cultural History

Wednesday, May 13th 2009
University Library Auditorium,

Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Only doctoral and post doctoral candidate’s papers will be considered for this conference. Confirmed researchers will be invited to attend the event and comment on the work of presenting doctoral candidates. The conference will foster collegial relations among young scholars internationally as well as connect them with more established mentors.

Political figures are the source of a complex imaginary that fascinates both media and public. Consider how contemporary electoral campaigns, TV clip, presidential speeches, political biographies, election posters function today. This is not a new phenomenon: political communication and the development of public personalities are familiar political practices. « Peopolisation » -or how political figures have become celebrities- is a new and rapidly developing area of study that has drawn the attentions of cultural historians and political observers. Studies in political representation increasingly consider the significance of longer time-frames, the impact of evolving media practices, and benefit from international and comparative perspectives.

Representing Political Figures in Mass Media conference operates within the field of international cultural history and invites reflection on the images (still and animated) and discourses of power. We invite researchers who work on the representations of individuals in power in European and American countries to investigate how the modalities of the mass media are used to popularize politics and how these in turn inform the construction of political memory and/or national identity. Proposals should address the media representations of political figures (be they a local personality or a prominent national politician) from 1776 to the present. Primary focus will be European and American democracies.
The conference will focus on the conditions involved in the processes of creation, production and reception of the media products. This observation will enable us to get a clearer view on the degree to which politicians are responsible for their image in the media.

The following aspects should be considered:

The politician’s language and non verbal communication, attitude, clothing’s social codes, etc.: the researcher will need to explain the symbols used by the politician and his references (intertextuality)

The situations selected for representation, the actions and ideas at the core of the discourse, the kind of role he projects to the outside world (the role of an actor or an observer, of a leader or a coordinator), and the closeness the politician intends to have with its audience (the degree to which he wants to be a father, a friend, a colleague, a professor and the affective levels implied in each degree).

The reference to functions aside from the political: does he present himself as an athlete, a family man, a seducer, a businessman, an intellectual, a peace, ecology or social activist, etc.

The setting and staging will be considered as important actors in the message too.

No media will be excluded from the conference, as long as they contribute to ex

plaining the cultural meaning behind the representations of figures of power. Fictions and information will be considered equally, and diversity of sources will be appreciated. Studies on television, radio, press (main and specialised, newspapers, magazines, online), photography, books, posters, online material will all be accepted.

An international comparative approach will be greatly appreciated, but is not a requirement. Although the conference will ultimately aim at defining a comparative international field of research, the committee believes this can also be achieved by a cross-comparison of national cases. To make its cultural history approach complete, the conference will take into consideration the circulation of images and cultural transfers. The main purpose of the conference will be to better appreciate how the popular outlook on the politician has transformed during the past two centuries.

These are the main directions of the conference sessions: The relation of the politician to public opinion ; «Peopolisation »: the confusion between private and public life, between the worlds of politics and celebrities ; Biographies and autobiographies ; · Practices and rituals ; · Posterity

Any student enrolled in a Ph.D. or post doctoral program in History, Political Science, Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Literature and Civilisation and related disciplines at the time of the conference is eligible. Students enrolled at universities outside of France are especially encouraged to submit proposals. Representing Political Figures in Mass Media conference aims at providing researchers on the media treatment of politics with a space for discussion.

Presentations can be delivered in English or in French. Participants are asked to turn in a 1500 word abstract (in English or in French, or both) before March 31st, 2009. This conference will result in a publication.

Paper proposals submission: 300 words text (in French or in English) with a clear title should be send before December 31st 2008 to Sophie Kienlen. We kindly request candidates to include the following information: status and current functions, field of study, thesis subject, doctoral/post-doctoral year, the name of your tutor, university (with address), laboratory and doctoral school. Scientific committee’s answer: February 15th 2009

Scientific committee: Christian Delporte, Jean-Yves Mollier, Caroline Moine, Jean-Claude Yon and Jacques Pothier, John Dean (Versailles St Quentin University, FRANCE), Pascal Ory (Paris 1 Sorbonne University, FRANCE), Jean-François Sirinelli (Sciences Po Paris, FRANCE), Jean-Marie Charon, Jacques Revel and François Weil (EHESS, FRANCE), Matthias Steinle (Paris 3 New Sorbonne University, FRANCE), Annie Duprat (CNRS-LCP, FRANCE), Marie Anne Matard-Bonucci (Grenoble 2 University, FRANCE), Hilary Footitt (University of Reading, UK), Marilisa Merolla (University-”La Sapienza”, ITALY), Juan Antonio García Galindo (Malaga University, SPAIN), Jérôme Bourdon (Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL), Zdravka Konstantinova (Sofia University, BULGARIA), Maria Nesterova (Saint-Petersburg State University for Cinema and Television, RUSSIA), Vanessa R. Schwartz (University of Southern California, USA), Bertram M. Gordon (Mills College, USA), Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky, USA), Michael Spingler (Clark University, USA), Philip Whalen (Coastal Carolina University, USA), Edward Berenson and Martin Schain (New York University, USA)

Organisation committee: Sophie Kienlen, Klervi Le Collen, Géraldine Poels and Sylvain Lesage (Doctoral Candidate, Versailles Saint Quentin University, FRANCE), Anne-Laure Anizan (Research Fellow, Centre for History, Sciences Po Paris, FRANCE), Dries Vrijders (Doctoral Candidate, Ghent University, BELGIUM), Mark Braude (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California, USA), Matthew Watkins (New York University, USA)

For additional information visit the conference website

Call for publications: Special Issue of American Literary Realism: “Realism and Periodicals.”

Submissions are invited on the topic “Realism and Periodicals,” for
inclusion in an upcoming special issue of the journal American Literary
Realism. In recent years the scholarly community has paid an increasing
amount of attention to the ways in which newspapers, magazines, story
papers, and other serial publications not only have functioned as
remunerative outlets for authors’ literary work and effective disseminators
of literary texts but have also played a major role in the careers of many
authors, helped influence the development of certain genres, served as
important sites of reader-text interactions, and performed important
cultural work. This special issue is intended to showcase the latest
scholarship in periodical studies as it relates to American literary
realism from approximately 1860 to 1940. Submissions using a wide range of
approaches are welcomed, as are those on lesser-investigated authors,
editors, texts, and periodicals. Two copies of essays of no more than 25
double-spaced pages (including documentation following Chicago Manual of
Style) should be sent by 15 April 2009 to:

Inquiries: Charles Johanningsmeier
English Department
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182-0175

L’Illustration photographique.

Disponible sur le site ISSUU, la thèse de Thierry Gervais sur “L’Illustration photographique. Naissance du spectacle de l’information (1843-1914)”, soutenue il y aura bientôt un an à l’EHESS.

Call for papers: The Cultural Industries in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Britain and Germany Compared

Conveners: Christiane Eisenberg (Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin) and Andreas Gestrich (German Historical Institute London)

Place and date: London, 20–21 Nov. 2009
Deadline: 31 Oct. 2008
__________________________________________________________________________ Increasingly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, patrons, associations, courts and the other public purveyors of culture were joined by private enterprises that approached the organisation of cultural events as a business, using professional methods such as targeted advertising and cooperation with the mass press, and employing professional artists and managers. These methods were applied not only to new cultural forms such as film, cinema and sport, but also to such traditional ones as theatre, concerts, choral performances and variety shows. The growing popularity of commercial culture irritated social reformers and politicians, and stimulated discussion of political interventions and new opportunities for social engineering.

As cultural industries of this sort had a long history in Britain, going back as far as the early modern period, they had become an accepted part of modern society by the late nineteenth century, like industrial production or the consumption of goods, and legal copyright was established early. By contrast, the literature on the cultural industries in Germany gives the impression that the breakthrough came later there, not until the end of the nineteenth century. It suggests that socially and politically, commercial culture was regarded in a highly critical way, some aspects of it being strongly rejected, and that the legal basis of commercialization was established with some delay. On the other hand, from the start political parties, churches and other ideological interests seem to have been readier to intervene politically and to nurture the cultural industries in Germany than in Britain—an aspect that is of interest in relation to the formulation and political instrumentalisation of mass culture during the interwar period.

A conference organized jointly by the German Historical Institute London and the Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin, to be held on 20–21 November 2009 in London, will investigate the context within which the cultural industries were created in Britain and Germany, and ask whether the paths of development and modes of reaction were really as different as the literature suggests. In addition, it will analyse perceptions and mutual cooperation between the actors. Survey papers and case studies devoted to individual cultural industries, comparative and single country studies are equally welcome. Contributors should ideally focus on one of the following core themes:

A) Cultural Industries as Business in Britain and Germany • The scope of markets (including competitors such as the state or the churches).
• Marketing methods and relations with the press.
• Sources of funding (public or private, subscriptions or ticket sales) and modes of organisation (firms, clubs, public events).
• Copyrights and the ‘economics of culture’; comparisons of specific cultural industries.

B) Cultural Industries in British and German Society • The social and economic context and the forces driving development.
• The interplay between the traditional and the modern; problems of periodisation.
• Interference of the state, political parties and private ‘vested interests’ (e.g. social control, security aspects, access for everybody, anti-capitalism).
• Motives, functions and dysfunctions of cultural policies.

The conference will be organised jointly by Christiane Eisenberg (Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin) and Andreas Gestrich (German Historical Institute London). The organisers would like to receive proposals for presentations of no more than one or two pages in length. The participation of scholars working in fields other than history, such as sociologists, economists or cultural scientists is most welcome.
Please send your proposal in Word or pdf format to the e-mail addresses below. Closing date for submission is 31 October 2008.

Prof. Dr. Christiane Eisenberg Grossbritannien-Zentrum / Centre for British Studies Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Mohrenstr. 60 10117 Berlin christiane.eisenberg@rz.hu-berlin.de

and
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gestrich German Historical Institute 17 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NJ reception@ghil.ac.uk

The planned conference is a follow-up to the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of British History and Politics (Arbeitskreis Deutsche Englandforschung, ADEF) held on 2–4 May 2008. A report of this first conference, which focused specifically British aspects of the cultural industries, is available at: HSozuKult

New book: L’Europe des revues (1880-1920)

L’Europe des revues (1880-1920). Estampes, photographies, illustrations.
(dir.) Evanghélia Stead et Hélène Védrine

This brand new book on the European press has just been published by the Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne. Here is a complete description. I haven’t received my copy yet, but I can’t wait to read and review it.