This ESPRit seminar celebrates the launch of two ambitious new ERC Advanced Grant projects focused on periodical culture:
- Maaheen Ahmed’s "COPRINTS: A History of Color Through Illustrated Magazines (1890s–1950s)"
- Porscha Fermanis’ PanAsia: "Anticolonialism, Pan-Asianism, and Periodical Culture in Southeast Asia, c.1850–1920"
Professors Ahmed and Fermanis will introduce their projects and discuss the historical, paradigmatic, and methodological questions that underpin them. Their presentations will be followed by a Q&A.
Speakers
Porscha Fermanis, MRIA, is Professor of Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature at University College Dublin. She is an internationally recognised researcher in global nineteenth-century studies, British Romanticism, the philosophy of history, the history of emotions, and book history, with a particular interest in the literatures of the colonial southern hemisphere and Southeast Asia. Her most recent book is Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820–1890 (Oxford University Press, 2026).
Maaheen Ahmed is Professor of Comparative Literature at Ghent University. She works on colour in print media, graphic novels and comics. Her research draws on semiotics, image networks, memory, materiality and affect.
Chair: Sophie van den Elzen (Utrecht University)
Date and registration
📅 12 November 2026
🕒 15:30–16:30
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
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