RSVP Digital Events

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Digital Events Return Feb. 3 with “Pick A Periodical”

RSVP’s Digital Events Committee is back in action! We’re delighted that Lorraine Janzen Kooistra will inaugurate our year’s events on Friday, February 3 at 8 a.m. PST/10 a.m. CST/ 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT. She will be guiding attendees in the first of our recurring “Pick a Periodical” event series with a discussion of Volume 5 (April 1895) of The Yellow Book. What Is Pick A Periodical? Pick A Periodical is a new event series we will host…periodically…in which we ask a scholar and member of RSVP to select an issue (or range) of a newspaper or periodical […]

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Half-Day Workshop on Multilingualism and Periodical Studies

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in conjunction with the European Society for Periodical Research is excited to announce Multilingualism and Periodical Studies A Half-day Virtual Workshop 31 March 2022 3pm-6pm (BST/CET) This two-part online workshop brings together scholars and researchers on the topic of multilingualism in periodicals scholarship. It seeks to spotlight ongoing projects in academic research across languages, as well as to ask questions about the challenges and possibilities that pertain to multilingual approaches. Because of their generic hybridity and varying circulations, periodicals have always invited interdisciplinary methods, which our participants expand into the study of periodicals’ linguistic […]

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December Workshop: Framing the Syrian Monument of Xi’an in The Chinese Repository (1832-1851)

The RSVP Race and Transimperialism Workshop Series presents: Framing the Syrian Monument of Xi’an in The Chinese Repository (1832-1851): American Beatitudes of Commercial Christendom, from the Foundation to Destruction of the Canton Mission Press Dr. Kendall A. Johnson (University of Hong Kong) Thursday, 16 December 2021, 4 p.m. GMT / 10 a.m. CST This fourth workshop in our series will focus on the materiality of periodical production in the anglophone missionary press in Canton (Guangzhou). The first American missionaries to China were keen to use metallic fonts in printing the Chinese language. To appreciate why metallic fonts mattered, this talk […]

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Settler Colonialism and the Slave Trade: Our November Transimperialism Workshop

The RSVP Race and Transimperialism Workshop Series presents: Settler Colonialism and the Slave Trade: Exploring Henry and Mary Bibb’s Voice of the Fugitive (1851-1853) and Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s The Provincial Freeman (1853-1857) Dr. Fariha Shaikh (University of Birmingham) Wednesday 17 November 2021, 6pm GMT / 12 pm CST This third workshop in our series will focus on two mid-century Canadian periodicals: the first Black-owned periodical, Henry and Mary Bibb’s Voice of the Fugitive (1851-1853) and the first Black periodical to be owned by a woman, Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s The Provincial Freeman (1853-1857). Dr. Shaikh will situate these periodicals […]

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Workshop: The Making of Transimperial Technological Networks

Join us on 21 October 2021 at 5:30 pm BST / 11:30 am CST for a workshop titled, The Making of Transimperial Technological Networks: A Case Study of Select Marathi Periodicals. This event is the second in our series on Race and Transimperialism. Dr. Vaibhav Singh (University of Reading) will introduce us to Marathi periodicals to discuss aspects of design processes, typographic history, printing and textual communications in the context of transimperial technological networks. The 50-minute workshop will include a presentation from Dr. Singh and Q&A, with time for discussion and suggestions for further reading. The workshop is free. All are […]

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Your How-To Guide to Our 2021 Virtual Conference

How-To Guide Contents: Registration Viewing presentations Zoom links Session format Chairing instructions Zoom tech assistance instructions   How does this virtual conference work? The conference will hold virtual sessions via Zoom, from 8-11 September, at the times indicated on the conference schedule. Attendees can view, listen to, and read presenter materials in advance of the regular sessions on the conference website. The regular sessions themselves will be primarily devoted to discussion among presenters and attendees. Keynote talks will also take place over Zoom, but there are no advance materials for these events. The Zoom link for each session is posted […]

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