INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: THE EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE A COMPARATIVE APPROACH UTRECHT 7-8 JUNE 2018

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1 THE EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS OF POPULAR PRINT CULTURE A COMPARATIVE APPROACH UTRECHT 7-8 JUNE 2018 UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, KANUNNIKEN ROOM (FACULTY CLUB), ACHTER DE DOM 7, UTRECHT

2 INTRODUCTION I n t r o d u c t i o n This second general EDPOP conference aims to bring together European specialists in the field of popular print. Although popular print culture has been studied This intensively second since general the 1960 s, EDPOP this was done conference mainly with a aims regional to or bring national together focus, based European on the assumption specialists that popular print in the in the field vernacular had of a limited popular geographical print. reach. Although Recent research popular has print revealed culture however, has that popular been print studied culture had intensively strong European since characteristics the 1960 s, and an often transnational infrastructure. this was done mainly with a regional or national focus, based on the assumption that popular print in the vernacular had a limited geographical reach. Recent research has revealed however, In this conference we will discuss some fundamental concepts and approaches in the field of popular print culture and we will present a range of comparative research projects executed by EDPOP-members in collaboration with other specialists. Four central fields in popular print culture will be addressed: entertainment, that popular print news, culture medical had strong knowledge, European characteristics and education and an often and transnational children s infra- literature. structure. This conference is one of the activities of the international network European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (see: financed by NWO (Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research). In this conference we will discuss some fundamental concepts and approaches in the field of popular print culture and we will present a range of comparative research projects executed by EDPOP-members in collaboration with other specialists. Four central fields in popular print culture will be addressed: entertainment, news, medical knowledge, and education and children s literature. Organising Committee Helwi Blom, Katell Laveant, Jeroen Salman, Rita Schlusemann Conference Assistant: Kerrewin Blanken (k.j.i.vanblanken@students.uu.nl) Contact: Jeroen Salman (j.salman@uu.nl) Project website: This conference is one of the activities of the international network European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (see: financed by NWO (Netherlands Organi- R e g i s t r a t i o n Guest sation are welcome of Scientific to attend this Research). conference. Please register before May 25th (j.salman@uu.nl) and pay the conference fee (50 euro) before the same d a t e. Use the following link: There is also an option to join the conference dinner (30 euro). ORGANISING COMMITTEE Committee members: Conference Assistant: Contact: Project website: Helwi Blom Katell Laveant Jeroen Salman Rita Schlusemann Kerrewin Blanken (k.j.i.vanblanken@students.uu.nl) Jeroen Salman (j.salman@uu.nl) REGISTRATION Guest are welcome to attend this conference. Please register before May 25th (j.salman@uu.nl) and pay the conference fee (50 euro) before the same date. Use the following link: There is also an option to join the conference dinner (30 euro).

3 PROGRAMME THURSDAY 7 JUNE Welcome Frank Kessler (Utrecht), Director Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) EDPOP in progress Jeroen Salman (Utrecht), Project leader EDPOP ROUND TABLE Reflections on the key concepts in European popular print culture Chair: Jeroen Salman Matthew Grenby: European print culture. Discussant: Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam) Jeroen Salman: Popular print culture. Discussant: Alessandro Arcancelli (Verona) INTRODUCTORY SESSION Reflections on the life cycle of European popular print Discussant/chair: Malcolm Walsby Laura Carnelos: The production of European popular print Jeroen Salman: The distribution and dissemination of popular print in Europe Shanti Graheli: Consumers of popular print through Early Modern Europe Discussion Tea break SESSION 1 (Westerdijk room) The circulation and materiality of parodic and comic literature in Northern Europe Coordinator: Katell Lavéant. Chair: Malcolm Walsby Ruth von Bernuth: Shared books and laughter: the Schildbürgerbuch in German and Yiddish Cécile de Morrée and Rozanne Versendaal: Recurring interest in joyful songs and summonses: Reflections on a variety of shapes and sizes Katell Lavéant: Forms and uses of seventeenth-century comic broadsheets Questions and discussion Short break

4 SESSION 2 (Westerdijk room) Popular medical books in Europe Coordinator/chair: Sabrina Minuzzi Tessa Storey: The Lament of the Melons : Extracting the rules of healthy living from cheap print in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy-with a glance at England and France Sandra Cavallo: Genres of medical didactic literature and medical culture in early modern Italy Hana Jadrná Matějková: Early Modern midwifery books from German speaking regions and the Czech Lands between Scholarship and practice Questions and discussion: Julia Martins and Andrea van Leerdam FRIDAY 8 JUNE SESSION News Intermediality and mobility Coordinator/chair: Joad Raymond Massimo Rospocher and Jenni Hyde: News sings Joad Raymond and Alexandra Schäfer: News moves Hannu Salmi and Yann Ryan: News counts Coffee break SESSION Stories and songs travelling through Europe Coordinator: Juan Gomis. Chair: Jeroen Salman Juan Gomis and Jeroen Salman: Popularising classics in Spain and the Netherlands: Penny prints and Aleluya s Siv Gøril Brandtzæg and Juan Gomis (in collaboration with Una McIlvenna): Crime and Punishment: mapping the European execution ballad Antonio Serrano (in collaboration with David Stoker): Cluer Dicey and Agustín Laborda. Chapbooks in eighteenth-century England and Spain Lunch

5 SESSION Top ten popular narratives in European languages. Corpus, genre, materiality, production and readers Coordinator/chair: Rita Schlusemann Rita Schlusemann and Krystyna Wierzbicka: The idea of top ten popular narratives in Europe and the question of their genre Anna Katharina Richter and Jordi Sanchez: Materiality matters. Production and printing of romances in Europe 15th-17th century Helwi Blom and Marie-Dominique Leclerc: The European dissemination of Pierre de Provence and Fortunatus; a comparative case-study in popular print culture Ursula Rautenberg: Top ten highbrow and lowbrow: on the different audiences of individual and complete editions: a case study of Sigmund Feyerabend's publishing strategy Questions and discussion Tea break SESSION Education and children s literature Coordinator/chair: Elisa Marazzi Matthew Grenby: What is popular children's literature? Laura Carnelos: Educational popular printed products ( ) Elisa Marazzi: Recreation in popular children's literature ( ) Discussion EDPOP and further plans Jeroen Salman

ADDRESS & ROUTE DESCRIPTION I n t r o d u c t i o n This second general EDPOP conference aims to bring together European specialists in the field of popular print.

6 ADDRESS & ROUTE DESCRIPTION I n t r o d u c t i o n This second general EDPOP conference aims to bring together European specialists in the field of popular print. Although popular print culture has been studied intensively Faculty since the Club: 1960 s, Achter this was done de Dom mainly with 7Aa regional or national focus, based on the assumption that popular print in the vernacular had a limited geographical reach. Recent research has revealed however, that popular print culture had strong European characteristics and an often transnational infrastructure. BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT In this conference we will discuss some fundamental concepts and approaches the field of popular print culture and we will present a range of comparative From research Utrecht projects executed Central by Station EDPOP-members take in bus collaboration 2, exit with at other Domplein. specialists. Then Four central follow fields instructions popular print culture below. will be addressed: entertainment, news, medical knowledge, and education and children s literature. BY FOOT (10 MINUTE WALK FROM UTRECHT CENTRAL STATION) This conference is one of the activities of the international network European Dimensions Popular Print Culture (see: financed by Follow signs NWO of the shopping (Netherlands mall Hoog Catherijne. Organisation Then follow the of directions Scientific Mariaplaats, Research). Moreelsepark until you reach the exit of Hoog Catherijne. From there to the left in the direction Organising Committee Helwi of the Dom Blom, Tower. Pass Katell under the Dom Laveant, Tower, cross Jeroen the Dom square Salman, and then Rita pass the Dom Schlusemann church on the left side. First street on the right side is 'Achter de Dom'. Go to no. 7A. Conference Assistant: Kerrewin Blanken (k.j.i.vanblanken@students.uu.nl) BY CAR Contact: Jeroen Salman (j.salman@uu.nl) For up-to-date directions, please check the ANWB route planner (in Dutch only). Information about road works in and around Utrecht is available from Utrecht bereikbaar (in Dutch only). Project website: R e g i s t r a t i o n Guest are welcome to attend this conference. Please register before May 25th (j.salman@uu.nl) and pay the conference fee (50 euro) before the same d a t e. Use the following link: There is also an option to join the conference PARKING dinner (30 euro). The nearest car park is located at the Springweg, a ten-minute walk from the University Hall. On the motorway follow directions towards the city centre (Centrum), then look for signs to P Springweg. After parking your car exit the car park at the Oudegracht side and walk through the Strosteeg towards the Oudegracht. Cross the bridge and turn left. At the Wed turn right, then cross the Lange Nieuwstraat (Drift) and walk until you see a bridge at your right. Go left (Achter de Dom), the entrance to the Faculty Club is left of you. Faculty Club: Achter de Dom 7A

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