CHINED IX programme and abstracts
Thursday, May 23rd
8.45 Registration opens
9.00 Conference opening
prof. Joanna Pawelczyk, Dean of the Faculty of English
9.15 Welcome
Matylda Włodarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
10.30 coffee break
9.30 PLENARY 1 BRENDAN DOOLEY (University College Cork)
News discourse in a crisis: Seventeenth-century stories in a comparative perspective (chair Carlotta Paltrinieri)
| SESSION I (chair Matylda Włodarczyk) |
| 11.00 Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal Holloway London) Early modern sensationalisms: Micro-histories in comparison 11.30 Carla Suhr (University of Helsinki) News from Amboyna: Two East India Companies and two different stories 12.00 Mairi McLaughlin (University of California, Berkeley) and Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence) A quantitative comparison of the early English and early French press 12.30 Lena Liapi (Keele University) Privateering, war, and the news: Analysing the impact of the St. Malo corsairs in news discourse, 1689-1714 |
13-14.45 lunch break
15.30 coffee break
Walk in Poznań city centre Conference dinner
| SESSION II (chair Elisabetta Cecconi) |
| 14.45 Machteld de Vos (Radboud University) Intertextuality and translations in 17th-century Dutch newspapers: A study into early modern newspaper editing practices |
16.00 PLENARY 2 ROBERTO VALDEÓN (University of Oviedo)
Translated news: The evolving role of translation in journalism (chair Nicholas Brownlees)
Friday, May 24th
| SESSION III (chair Isabella Martini) |
| 9.00 Elisabetta Cecconi (University of Florence) (Re)defining women’s role in the early 18th century: Evidence from Letters to the Editor in British and American weeklies (1720-1740) 9.30 Matylda Włodarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University) “The fair sufferer”: Women in sensationalist accounts from British sources in Polish dailies in the early nineteenth century 10.00 Polina Shvanyukova (University of Udine) A page of her own: Women’s sections in late nineteenth-century American and Italian press |
10.30 coffee break
| SESSION IV (chair Machteld de Vos) |
| 11.00 Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick) The language of Punch cartoons 11.30 Lucia Assenzi (University of Innsbruck) Evolving forms of reported discourse as a result of evolving journalistic practices. How the Allgemeine Zeitung quoted The Times (1850–1900) |
12-13.30 lunch break
| SESSION V (chair Raymond Hickey) |
| 13.30 Anna Rogos-Hebda (Adam Mickiewicz University) “A plague from the east?”: The discursive construction of Jews in Polish and American dailies between 1945 and 1965 14.00 Isabella Martini (University of Florence) The Treatment of Armenians. Comparing the official Blue Book by Viscount Brice and the Letters to the Editor of The Times on the Armenian Genocide 14.30 Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) “…a long journey through the valley of the shadow…”: A comparison of Irish and British news discourse on the Irish Civil War 15.00 Masoumeh Rahimi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Intertextuality in historical news discourse: A comparative study of Persian newspapers’ coverage of the World War II |
15.30 coffee break
17.00 Closing of conference
17.15 Visit to the National Museum Poznań
Thursday May 23rd
16.00 PLENARY 3 DAVID FINKELSTEIN (University College London)
British colonial periodicals in context (chair Carla Suhr)
| Time | Presenter / Paper |
| 9:00 | Opening |
| 9:30-10:30 | PLENARY 1 Dooley |
| coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Paper 1 Paltrinieri |
| 11:30-12:00 | Paper 2 Suhr |
| 12.00-12.30 | Paper 3 McLaughlin – Brownlees |
| 12.30-13.00 | Paper 4 Liapi |
| lunch break at Południe | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Paper 5 de Vos |
| 15:00-15:30 | Paper 6 Samson |
| coffee break | |
| 16:00-17:00 | PLENARY 2 Valdeón |
| 17:00-18:30 | Visit to Poznań city centre/museum |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner at Papavero |
Friday May 24th
| Time | Presenter / Paper |
| 9:00-9:30 | Paper 7 Cecconi |
| 9:30-10:00 | Paper 8 Włodarczyk |
| 10:00-10:30 | Paper 9 Shvanyukova |
| coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Paper 10 Hickey |
| 11.30-12.00 | Paper 11 Assenzi |
| lunch break at Bar a Boo | |
| 13.30-14.00 | Paper 12 Rogos-Hebda |
| 14:00-14:30 | Paper 13 Martini |
| 14:30-15:00 | Paper 14 Mazzi |
| 15:00-15:30 | Paper 15 Rahimi |
| coffee break | |
| 16.00-17:00 | PLENARY 3 Finkelstein |
| 17.00-17.30 | Closing of conference |