Dear Members

Journalism and History: Dialogues
15 September 2010: Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
This interdisciplinary one-day conference, organized by the Department of
Journalism Studies and the Department of History at the University of
Sheffield, will explore dialogues between journalism and history. The
conference will signal the launch of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and
History at the University of Sheffield:
http://www.journalism-history.dept.shef.ac.uk/ It will address questions such
as: how do historians and a wide range of scholars from other disciplines
engage with journalism as a source? How does journalism relate to history in
its processes and editorial practices? How is the increasing availability of
digital archives of journalism impacting upon academic work and upon
journalism?
Keynote speakers: 
David Culbert is John L. Loos Professor, Louisiana State University; widely
published on the history of propaganda in the mass media and editor of the
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Jason McElligott works at the Trinity Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities
research institute at Trinity College Dublin. He has broad interests in
early-modern print culture, and is the author of Censorship and the Press,
1640-1660 (2009) and Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England
(2007). He has recently edited collections of essays on the politics of
conflict in the 1680s, and the history, literature and culture of royalism
during the 1640s and 1650s.
Other speakers include: Ivor Gaber, Stephen Dorril, Jane Chapman and John
Tulloch.
There will be a charge of £30 to cover the costs of the day which includes a
buffet lunch and coffee.
For more details, contact Dr Martin Conboy ([log in to unmask]) or Dr
Adrian Bingham ([log in to unmask])


Online registration at
https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=64&modid=1&prodid=309&deptid=9


Journalism and History: Dialogues  
Conference Programme


9.30 – 10.00 Registration

9.30 – 10.30 Welcome and keynote

10.30 – 12.00 Session 1 A
Colonial and Post-Colonial Perspectives
Dean Jobb (University of King’s College Halifax, Nova Scotia)
‘Lampoons, shallow brain’d Politicians and underwitted Poets’: Political
commentary in Canada’s early press 1752-1770
Rory Pilossof (University of Sheffield)
The history of white farmers in Zimbabwe through The Farmer magazine,
c. 1980-2002.
Jane Chapman and John Tulloch (University of Lincoln) FW Wilson – the first
suggestion

10.30 – 12.00 Session 1 B
The Cold War
Stephen Dorril (University of Huddersfield) 
The secret intelligence service and journalists during the Cold War
Jan Cebe (Charles University Prague)
The transformation of Czech media after World War II
Simon Huxtable (Birkbeck College, University of London)
What was Soviet journalism? Historical perspectives on the Soviet press,
1917-1991

12.00 – 12.15 Coffee

12.15 – 1.00 Plenary

1.00 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 – 3.15 Session 2A
Journalism Across the Centuries
Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire)
The deleterious dominance of the Times in nineteenth century journalism history
Gary Rivett (University of Sheffield)
English newsbooks and the Solemn League and Covenant: storytelling and the
politics of the recent past, September-October 1643
Richard Ward (University of Sheffield)
Newspapers and the history of eighteenth-century crime and justice

1.45 – 3.15 Session 2B
Ireland
Maurice Walsh (Kingston University)
The repentant correspondent: Sir Philip Gibb and the war in Ireland 1919-1921.
James T. O’Donnell (Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway)
The first draft of history: Irish newspapers in the first half of the twentieth
century as contemporary reporters and historical sources.
Kevin Rafter (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin)
E.J Dillon and the Irish born foreign correspondents

3.15 - 3.30 Tea

3.30 – 5.00 Session 3A
Doing things Differently
Bob Nicholson (University of Manchester)
The digital turn: exploring the methodological potential of digital newspaper
archives
Sallie McNamara (Southampton Solent University)
Lady Eleanor Smith: the society column 1927-1930
Maria Obieta Vilallonga (University of Deusto)
Europe from the outside: an image of European identity through post-war
American
media information.

3.30 – 5.00 Session 3B
Politics and Policy Making
Ivor Gaber
The decline and increasing irrelevance of the ‘lobby’
Anita Howarth (Kingston University)
Contested present, past associations: preparing to campaign against GM food.
Jesse Hearns-Branaman (University of Leeds)
Perspectives on the Fourth Estate: beyond truth and power

5.00 Closing remarks and networking




Journalism & History Conference
15 September 2010

Delegate information


Venue: The conference will be held at the Humanities Research Institute, The
University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY. 

Full directions are available online at
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/location/map.html 

From the train station it is about 10 minutes by tram, bus, or taxi, or 25-30
minutes on foot.

We will have laptops, data projectors, OHPs and flip charts. Please let us know
if you will require any other AV equipment.

Accommodation: 

Leopold Hotel
http://www.leopoldhotel.co.uk/ 

Rutland Hotel 
http://www.rutlandhotel-sheffield.com/ 

St Paul’s Hotel 
http://www.mercure.com/mercure/fichehotel/gb/mer/6628/fiche_hotel.shtml 

Premier Inn, St Mary’s Gate, Young Street, Sheffield, S1 4UP
http://www.premierinn.com/en/home.action 

The University also offers guest accommodation:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/accommodation/guest 

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