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June 5 – DAY 1 (Thursday)

9:00-09:45: Welcome by Liberas and CAMIlle

 

09:45-10:45: Marie-Eve Thérenty (Montpellier, FR),

Keynote lecture: ‘"Où sont les femmes ? Une enquête surprenante et instructive sur la page cinéma des grands quotidiens français de l'entre-deux-guerres"

 

10:45-11:00: coffee break

 

 11:00-13:00:Panel 1 Journalism and other -isms

 

Jeffrey Tyssens (Brussels, BE)

Charles-Alcée Campan (1800-1877), an “orléaniste” pressman in Belgian exile during the Second Empire

 

Michaël Auwers (Brussels, BE)

From Europe to the World: Alain de Prelle de la Nieppe’s globe-trotting journalism during the early Cold War

 

Nina Žnidaršič (Ljubljana, SLO)

Genealogy of Journalism in Socialist Yugoslavia: An Oral-Historical Elaboration of Journalists' Professional identity and Experience

 

Benji de la Piedra (Washington, US)

The journalistic life of Herbert H. Denton Jr. (1943-89)

 

13:00-14:00: Lunch

 

14:00-15:30: Panel 2 Women journalists (I) – individual experiences

 

Nick Richardson (Melbourne, AU))

Patricia Jarrett: a rarity, not a novelty

 

Juliette De Maeyer (Montréal, CA)  (& Dominique Trudel, FR)

Mary Bacon (Martin) Ford and the Organization of Art through Journalism

 

Carlo Bovolo ( Torino, IT)

A Life for Young Readers: Ines Piacentini (1875-1961) and the Italian Methodist Press for Children

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

 

16:00-18:00: Panel 3 Women journalists (II) – Collective experiences

 

Eline Batsleer (Ghent, BE)

Reviving a generation of forgotten Italian women journalists

 

Balázs Sipos (Budapest, HU)

Forgotten female journalists in Hungary, 1860s–1918

 

Chloé Nejma Rondeleux (Paris, FR)

Algerian women journalists raised in France: unusual trajectories in the service of socialist Algeria in the 1980s

 

 

June 6 – DAY 2 (Friday)

9:30-10:30: Will Mari (Baton Rouge, US), Keynote lecture: “The material traces of forgotten journalists: the importance of places and objects in telling the stories of the rank-and-file”

 

10:30-12:45: Panel 4 journalists at war

 

Patricia Loughlin (Edmond, US)

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant’s Shadow Shapes and American Women War Correspondents during the First World War

 

Ross F. Collins (Fargo, US)

Camille Ferdy and the influence of French journalism during the First World War

 

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

 

Stephanie Seul (Bremen, DE)

Forgotten women war reporters of the First World War: Avis Waterman, the London Times’ Milan correspondent reporting from the Italian front

 

James Mueller (Denton, US)

The Forgotten Black Panther of the Pen: Trezzvant Anderson Publicized the Heroics of African American Tankers in World War II

 

12:45-13:30: Lunch

13:30-15:30: Panel 5 In the margins of journalism 

 

Joël Langonné  (Angers, FRA)

Maritime newspapers and long-distance telegraphy (1905-1914) The on-board telegraph operator as a heroic figure (of journalism?)

 

Theresa Russell-Loretz (Millersville, US)

“Purely Personal Piffle”: Legacy Construction of Ruth Lovrien Conner, Midwestern Journalist and Linotype operator

 

Louise Francezon (Paris, FRA)

Unveiling the Shadows: The Life and Career of Suzanne Laroche, A Marginalized Photojournalist

 

Teresa Ferré Panisello (Barcelona, SPA)

Under the shadow of Robert Capa: local photojournalists in the Spanish Civil War

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00-18:00: Panel 6 Colonialism & postcolonialism

 

Leon Atkinson-MacEwen (Hobart, AUS)

Gilbert Robertson (1794-1851) – The Vandemonian Radical journalist derided by colonial administrators and historians alike

 

Jaron Murphy ( Bournemouth, UK)

“It’s Difficult to Decide My Identity”: A Re-Evaluation of the Life, Career and Legacy of Black South African Journalist Nat Nakasa (1937-1965)

 

Nathan Lauwers (Ghent, BE)

Congo through the lens of the literary journalist

 

Christoph De Spiegeleer (Ghent, BE)

Forgotten journalistic voices of internationalism during the Cold War. The International Federation of Journalists and the Global South in the 1960s

 

 

June 7– DAY 3 (Saturday)

9:30-10:30: Noah Amir Arjomand (Los Angeles, US), Keynote lecture: “Journalism's Invisible Brokers: Fixers in Turkey and Syria”

 

10:30-12: 45: Panel 7 Women journalists (III) - Crossing borders

 

Babs Boter (Amsterdam, NL)

‘Pressing’ her case: A Dutch journalist calls on Mussolini, Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Fabiola

 

John M. Coward (Tulsa, US)

Domesticating the American Frontier: Carrie Adell Strahorn’s Genial Journalism

 

11:30-11:45: Coffee break

 

Claire Blandin & Isabelle Hare (Paris-Lyon-FRA)

From Fame to Oblivion. Tytaïna - Elisabeth Sauvy, the Globetrotter Journalist

 

Laura M. Calkins (Lubbock, US)

Press Reporting from Revolutionary Asia despite ‘No Facilities for Women:’ Charlotte Ebener in China, Indochina, and Indonesia, 1946-1947