Keynote Speakers
Periodicals as Cultural Assemblages
Málaga, 3–5 September 2025
We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the 13th Annual ESPRit Conference. Their lectures will address central themes of the conference from distinct disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
Catherine Delyfer
University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Keynote Title: “Testing the Generic Boundaries and Agency of the Periodical Form: Assembling The Magazine with Lucy Raeburn”
Catherine Delyfer is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a member of the Centre for Anglophone Studies (C.A.S., EA 801). Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, art, gender studies, and the interplay between text and image in periodicals and illustrated books.
She is the author of Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siècle Writing: The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931 and has co-edited multiple scholarly volumes and journal issues on aestheticism, intermediality, and gender. She currently serves as joint editor of Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism.
🔗 More about Catherine Delyfer
María Isabel Hernández Toribio
Complutense University of Madrid
Keynote Title: “Ciberpragmática y periodismo: las redes sociales de algunas publicaciones”
María Isabel Hernández Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research lies at the intersection of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and digital communication, with recent work focused on speech act theory in online platforms.
She has published on digital discourse in contexts such as cultural institutions, tourism platforms, audiovisual media, and advertising. She is currently Academic Secretary of the Complutense Institute for the Teaching of Spanish and the Master’s in Creative Writing.
🔗 More about María Isabel Hernández Toribio
Book of Abstracts
The Book of Abstracts for the 13th Annual ESPRit Conference, Periodicals as Cultural Assemblages (Málaga, 3–5 September 2025), is now available for consultation.
📄Click here to read and download it
JEPS in Conversation
Launched in 2025, JEPS in Conversation is a new online initiative designed to accompany each issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies.
The series offers a space for editors and authors to engage directly with readers, discuss their research, and reflect on key questions shaping the field of periodical studies today. Each session highlights selected articles from the current issue and invites the audience into a live conversation on emerging themes, new methodologies, and collaborative directions in periodical research.
This is an open, informal space for dialogue: everyone interested in periodical studies is warmly welcome to attend.
Episode 1 – Periodicals & Belonging (20 June 2025)
Topic
This first episode explores how periodicals have historically constructed, maintained, or resisted notions of community and identity, and what that means in today’s global context.
Articles in focus:
🔹 “The Post-War Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Italian Film Criticism (1943–53)” by Stefano Locati — Read it
🔹 “On Post-Dictatorship, Popular Loquacity and Marginal Periodicals: Bananas, a Free Creation Magazine Based in Valencia (1979–1980)” by Inés Molina-Agudo — Read it
Speakers:
🔹Mary Ikoniadou, Andrew Hobbs, Annemarie McAllister (Issue Editors)
🔹Stefano Locati (IULM University of Milan)
🔹Inés Molina-Agudo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Listen to the Episode
You can now listen to the recording of Episode 1 here:
🎧 JEPS in Conversation – Periodicals & Belonging
Or browse all podcast episodes on the channel:
🎧 ESPRit on SoundCloud
About the Series
JEPS in Conversation is part of ESPRit’s broader mission to support and disseminate cutting-edge research in periodical studies.
Each session is recorded and made available for later listening.
Final Programme – Málaga 2025
We are pleased to announce that the final programme for the 13th Annual ESPRit Conference, Periodicals as Cultural Assemblages (Málaga, 3–5 September 2025), is now available.
You can read and download the programme here.
We look forward to welcoming you in Málaga.
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Seminar series on transnational periodical research
This series of work-in-progress sessions is led by colleagues contributing to the Brill Handbook of Transnational Periodical Research, edited by Marianne Van Remoortel and Fionnuala Dillane, which is planned for publication in 2025. Seminar participants will each speak for 8-10 minutes on the challenges of ‘transnational’ work and on questions that their work-in-progress has raised to date.
The workshops aim to deepen and enrich understandings of what we mean by transnational periodical research, including considerations of the usefulness and limitations of the ‘transnational’. As work-in-progress sessions, we also hope to open up discussions about our methodologies and strategies as periodical researchers. Each session will be one hour long, conversational in format, and audience participation will be encouraged. Each workshop will be held on zoom and registration links are included below.
We look forward to seeing you and to the ongoing discussions.
Work-in-Progress Workshop 1: Monday 25 September 2023 with
- Gábor Dobó and Merse Szeredi (Petőfi Literary Museum–Kassák Museum, Budapest) on Networks and the Avant-Garde
- Henriette Partzsch (University of Glasgow) on Translation and Genres
- Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University) on Travelling Localism
Work-in-Progress Workshop 2: Monday 2 Oct 2023 with
- Cedric van Dijck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) on Empire
- Stephan Pigeon (St Francis Xavier University, New Brunswick) on Scissors and Paste
- Sukeshi Kamra (Carleton University, Ottawa) on Postcolonialism/Transimperialism
Work-in-Progress Workshop 3: Tuesday 10 October 2023 with
- Sophie van den Elzen (Utrecht University) on Rebels
- Sara Marzagora and Malak Abdelkhalek (King’s College London) on Internationalism, Solidarity and Pedagogy