We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 10, Issue 1 of the Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS). This special issue, titled Periodicals & Belonging, explores how periodicals construct, sustain, and question ideas of community—an urgent and timely topic in our fragmented world.

As editors Mary Ikoniadou, Andrew Hobbs, and Annemarie McAllister explain:

This issue brings together articles from the 11th Annual ESPRit Conference (Leeds Beckett University), examining how periodicals have shaped diverse communities—from regimental soldiers and activists to post-war critics and artistic outsiders.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Periodicals and Belonging? – Mary Ikoniadou, Andrew Hobbs & Annemarie McAllister
• On Post-Dictatorship, Popular Loquacity, and Marginal Periodicals: Bananas, a Free Creation Magazine Based in Valencia (1979–80) – Inés Molina Agudo
• Esprit de Corps: Regimental Journals and Belonging – Beth Gaskell
• The Post-War Construction of a Sense of Belonging in Italian Film Criticism (1943–53) – Stefano Locati
• Anglo-American Cultural Outsiders in World War I and Interwar Paris: Building Other Periodical Communities – Céline Mansanti
• Community and Belonging in the Body Politic (1971–87), Canada’s First Gay Liberation Newspaper – Marcin Markowicz
• Soldier Communities in Transition: A Case Study of the Zeitung der 10. Armee (1915–18) – Sönke Parpart

And book reviews by Chandrika Kaul, Douglas Brent McBride, Maria Nikolopoulou & Eloise Forestier

To explore these articles and delve into the rich discussions they offer, read the full issue at JEPS 10.1

JEPS in Conversation – New Podcast Series

Launched alongside this issue, the JEPS in Conversation series features in-depth discussions with editors and authors. The first episode includes:

• Stefano Locati on post-war Italian film criticism
• Inés Molina Agudo on Spain’s marginal press post-Franco

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We are delighted to announce the publication of A Mixed Picture: Media Transfer and Media Competition in Illustrated Periodicals, 1840s-1960s. Thanks to the support of the Ruhr University Open Monograph Press and our publisher Wehrhahn Verlag (Hannover, Germany), the edited volume with contributions from the 9th ESPRit conference is available both open access (under a CC-BY license) and in print (ISBN: 978-3-98859-051-0; 29,50 €). 

With this final publication, the editors keep committed to an open research policy that has significantly shaped the success of the virtual ESPRit conference in 2021. Selected papers of the conference have already been published OA in a JEPS special issue on the topic of "Periodical Formats in the Market". Finally, the keynote lectures by Will Slauter, Ruth Meyer, and Corinna Norrick-Rühl and most of the conference presentations are still online at the conference website, accessible now also via the ESPRit YouTube channel.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9, Issue 2 of the Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS). This issue traverses Europe and spans three centuries, offering fresh perspectives on periodical studies.

As the editor-in-chief, Dr. Cedric van Dijck, notes:

JEPS 9.2 spotlights the latest work in periodical studies. The issue gestures across Europe and across the past three centuries. Its articles cover exciting new territory, with discussions of turn-of-the-century itinerant showpeople's periodicals, portraits of James Joyce in London's Greek newspaper Hē Hesperia, and the Hungarian periodical press—from nineteenth-century fashion magazines to avant-garde publications. And much more!

Table of Contents:

• "'The Precious Tool and Often also the Weapon That We Know it to Be': Itinerant Showpeople's Periodicals as Socio-Economic Platforms (1880s–1920s)" by Eva Andersen
• "Žena danas (1936–40; 1943–44; 1945–53) and Mitra Mitrović: The Policies of (Ghost) Editorship, Feminism, and Antifascism" by Stanislava Barać and Zorana Simić
• "Creating a Proletarian Avant-Garde: Changing Strategies of Journal Editors Returning to Hungary after Emigrating to Western Europe" by Gábor Dobó
• "Agents in the News: English Envoys and Imperial Diplomats in the London Periodical Press during the Peace Negotiations of Rákóczi’s War of Independence (1704–06)" by Réka Horváth
• "James Joyce’s Portrait in London’s Greek Newspaper Hē Hesperia (1916–20)" by Eleni Loukopoulou
• "Hungarian Scissors and French Taste: Nationalized Fashion Plates in the 1840s" by Zsolt Mészáros
• "The Soul Never Dies: On Parkett’s Life After Death" by Camilla Salvaneschi
• "A Century of Scripting through German Children’s Periodicals" by Eva Van de Wiele

And reviews by Barbara Green, Tom Stennet and Lynn Hilditch.

To explore these articles and delve into the rich discussions they offer, read the full issue at JEPS 9.2.

Now out: Garzone, G.; Logaldo, M.; Santulli, F. (eds.) 2020. Investigating Conflict Discourses in the Periodical Press. Bern/New York: Peter Lang.

The contributions collected in this book deal with the representation of conflict in the periodical press, which has often been an arena of adversarial stances, staged and enacted either within the same publication or enlarged to involve various newspapers and magazines in a series of provocations and replies. Underlying all the contributions is the awareness that the periodical press provides an ideal terrain for research on the discursive representation of conflict, having the prerogative to combine insight with a constant updating of the debate. The issue is approached in an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing linguistics and discourse analysis with Periodical Studies, hence highlighting the connection between language and ideology. The focus on lexical choices and rhetorical devices used to tackle current controversial issues such as Brexit, immigration, violence in sports, policies regarding health and food, women’s role and legal matters ultimately transcends national boundaries to become more widely representative of today’s discourses of conflict.

This volume is the outcome of the papers presented by linguists at the 6th ESPRit conference held in Milan in 2017. For more information, please visit the website of the publisher, www.peterlang.com.