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.