RSVP Digital Events

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The Art Historians are Coming!

Join the RSVP Digital Events committee on Friday, September 8 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT to hear from: Hala Auji, who will speak on “(Other)worldly Musings: Transnational Imagery in Arabic Periodicals”  and Tom Young, who will discuss “The ‘Autographic Self’: Facsimile Signatures and Lithographic Portraiture at the Crossroads of Liberalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, c.1800–60” Hala Auji is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Her talk will cover illustrated nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals, published in […]

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Let’s Talk Manuscript Periodicals on August 4

Join us for the next RSVP digital event – a panel discussion of “Manuscript Periodicals of theLong Nineteenth Century” – on Friday, August 4 at the usual time (4 p.m. BST / 11 a.m. EDT / 8 a.m. PDT). Our three speakers will introduce the manuscript periodicals they work on, followed by time for questions and discussion. The presentations will explore themes such as reading communities, the relationshipbetween manuscript magazines and their print counterparts, and the way that local andnational events come together in these small-scale magazines.

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Come Discuss Altick’s The Shows of London on June 9

Join us for the next RSVP Digital Events event on Friday, June 9 at 4 p.m. London / 11 a.m. EDT / 8 a.m. PDT, when we will host an informal reading group and discussion of three chapters from Richard Altick’s The Shows of London (1978). “What did nineteenth-century readers respond to that later readers have trouble discerning? The short answer, I believe, is spectacle.” Stephen Arata “People mutht be amuthed.” Mr. Sleary The Shows of London is a remarkable archive of the spectacles nineteenth-century audiences loved and how they intersected with periodical culture. For the first RSVP Digital Events […]

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Next “Pick-A-Periodical” Digital Event Next Friday, 5 May

Join the RSVP Digital Events committee for our next “Pick-A-Periodical” event on May 5 at 10 a.m. CST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT! During this informal session, our host Patrick Leary will open up a discussion on a fascinating but little-known trade journal, Press News. Everyone in the periodicals trade called it “Press News,” but the full title of this now obscure periodical bristled with broader ambitions: “The London, Colonial, and Provincial Press News.”  In an almost 50-year run that began in 1866, Press News aimed to be much more than simply a trade journal for the […]

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Need Help With Periodical Research?

RSVP Digital Events can help! Join us Friday, April 7 for our first “Collaborative Learning and Troubleshooting” workshop with Jiwon Min on “The Making and Unmaking of Krakatau: Reading Nineteenth Century Periodicals, the Volcano and Climate Change.” The workshop will take place Friday, April 7 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT. Jiwon will share international media coverage (newspapers and periodicals that relied on telegraphs and new underwater cables), weather observations and maps (that deployed a range of illustrative technologies), and other accounts in the periodical press. The Krakatau eruption and these reports fueled scientific […]

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Want to Learn About the Indian Punch?

RSVP’s Digital Events committee is pleased to welcome Maryam Sikander for our next virtual event. As the inaugural presenter in our Speaker’s Forum series, Maryam will deliver a talk titled “Avadh Punch (1877-1938): Transformation of Colonial Text and Context” on Wednesday, March 1 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 9:30 p.m. IST. Maryam Sikander is a Junior Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She was awarded our 2021 Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize for her PhD thesis which she completed at SOAS University of London in 2021. Her thesis explored the […]

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