Periodicals, History and Change: a Postgraduate Workshop (Abstracts due: 27/09/24)

This Work In Progress workshop will comprise part of a postgraduate study day at the Leeds Library, the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the United Kingdom. The day will include a tour of the library as well as opportunities to explore the library’s excellent periodical collection and present your research, before culminating in an evening panel discussion featuring Professor Hazel Hutchison, Professor James Mussell and Dr Vic Clarke. 

We welcome applications for fifteen minute work in progress papers and three minute thesis presentations on periodicals, history and change from any time period, context, or culture. Areas of focus might include: 

• How periodicals change – within and across publications and periods. 

• How periodicals respond to and attempt to affect historical change. 

• How texts change between and within periodical formats. 

• Changing patterns in periodical production and consumption, circulation and readership. 

Applicants are encouraged to consider methodological issues and comparative facets of their work in order to look beyond the individual case study. To apply, please send the following: 

• University affiliation and thesis title. 

• Summary of delegate’s doctoral research (150 words). If this is not primarily focussed on periodicals, please focus on the place of print culture within the thesis. 

• Which format(s) you would be happy to present (fifteen minute work in progress paper and/ or three minute thesis, if both please indicate your preferred format).  

• Abstract (if interested in presenting a work in progress paper, 250 words). 

Please submit the above to periodicals.history.change@gmail.com with the subject ‘Leeds Library Postgraduate Workshop’ by the 27^th September 2024. A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for postgraduate students presenting at the workshop.