Dear All, 
this is a final call for abstracts for two of our forthcoming seminar events
–‘Exploring digital newspaper archives’ 14 January in Sheffield and ‘The long
popularization process: Anglo-American perspectives’ 12 March New York.

We welcome abstracts from people based within a variety of disciplines whose
research follows the themes of the research network.  Please see below for full
details.

AHRC RESEARCH NETWORK – CALL FOR PAPERS
Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988
AH/H038930/1

Principal Investigator Dr Martin Conboy, Department of Journalism Studies,
University of Sheffield

Please send abstracts of 500 words to Administrative Assistant
[log in to unmask] by the end of October 2010 if you feel that you can
make a significant contribution to either or both of the seminars. We have a
limited amount of sponsorship available to support travel to both seminars and
in some cases we can also pay for participants’ accommodation. 

Outline of the Research Network
There is much work currently being undertaken in the history of newspapers in
the USA and the UK and it is the purpose of this network to bring leading
scholars in the field together to discuss how their research interrelates and
how it can be enhanced by broader disciplinary dialogue drawing on the
traditions and methodologies of history, language studies, literary studies,
and journalism studies. This interdisciplinary project is made more urgent by
the growing number of digital newspaper archives from the 19th and 20th
centuries from the USA and the UK. As we move from a research economy of
archive scarcity to one of plenty, we need to be able to set out a new, more
integrated set of methodologies which enable the wealth and diversity of these
resources to be more appropriately mined. 
  
Each of the seminars will seek to attract high quality, publishable research
which contributes to the themes of the Research Network. The seminars, located
as they are in the UK, the USA and Switzerland will aim to bring together
leading researchers and emerging scholars so as to enhance the international
and interdisciplinary ambitions of the project. The Research Network will also
co-ordinate publication with the Media History Exchange, an archive and social
network sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities. 

Aims and Objectives
• To bring together scholars, researchers and information professionals to
develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of digital newspaper archives
in Britain and North America.
• To investigate representations of popular culture in Anglo-American
newspapers
over the period 1833 to 1988. 
• To develop with colleagues from a range of cognate disciplines a set of
agreed
principles for a consistent methodology for the investigation of the increasing
number of digital archives of newspapers which would extend computer-assisted
research in the humanities.
• To establish a network of scholars and researchers which can sustain such
dialogues beyond the scope of the project by setting up a clear set of
publishing outcomes and future collaborations.
• To provide a forum for dissemination of best practice in historical and
linguistic research approaches to digital newspaper archives.
• To develop the general area of Historical Pragmatics by a series of sustained
and focused investigations into a particular area of media language and social
representation; representation of popular culture in newspapers.
 

Core Group
Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield
Kevin Barnhurst, University of Illinois at Chicago
Martin Conboy, University of Sheffield
David Copeland, Elon University
Bob Franklin, University of Cardiff
Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich
Chandrika Kaul, St Andrews
Ed King, Head of Collections, British Newspaper Library
Elliot King, Loyola University Maryland
David Machin, University of Cardiff
John Nerone University of Illinois 
Michael Schudson, Columbia University 
Terry Threadgold, University of Cardiff
Joel Wiener, CUNY

Key Dates
14 January 2011 Sheffield
Exploring digital newspaper archives
12 March 2011 New York
The long popularization process: Anglo-American perspectives
18 January 2012 Zurich
Historical pragmatics and the language of popular newspapers
28 March 2012 Cardiff
The social semiotics of popular journalism: a long view
8 July 2012 Sheffield
Research methodology and digital newspapers: feasibility and sustainability

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Administrative Assistant
Department of Journalism Studies
University of Sheffield 
18-22 Regent Street
Sheffield 
S1 3NJ

Please note my normal working day is Wednesday

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