posting on behalf of Meghan Forbes
*CfP | Summoning the Archive: A Symposium on the Periodical, Printed
Matter, and Digital Archiving*
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NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge
May 11-13, 2017
Organizer: Meghan Forbes, NYU and UT-Austin
Keynote Speaker: Jenna Freedman, Barnard
The printing and distribution of the avant-garde magazine, illustrated
weekly, and underground zine have developed in the twentieth century in
tandem with technological advancements in printing and access to these
technologies in various regions, gaining traction in different parts of the
world at different times based on economic, social, and political
conditions. At its best, the magazine is an efficient, relatively
affordable (for both publisher and consumer) vehicle for the artists and
intellectuals it represents, and has the capacity to innovate with new
technologies and engage in pressing social, political, and artistic issues.
This is even more true now, in the second decade of the twenty-first
century, as we observe new models for content, design, and distribution of
the periodical or magazine published online, which has the potential to
involve an even wider audience, and host a variety of multimedia content.
The magazine thus continues to be a leading platform for social and
political engagement, and artistic innovation.
Corresponding to a turn towards the digital, the field of Periodical
Studies has gained traction as it situates the magazine as a cultural
product that incorporates text, image, and graphic design toward various
political, social, artistic, and pedagogical ends. With large scale
projects dedicated to digitizing print based magazines, such as the Blue
Mountain project at Princeton University or the Modernist Journals Project
at Brown, and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data
visualization, periodicals that were once sequestered in the archive now
have the capacity to reach a wider audience, and make visible previously
overlooked networks and connections enacted within and across the magazines.
The Symposium on the Periodical, Printed Matter, and Digital Archiving, to
be held at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, invites publishers,
editors, artists, and scholars from the Social Sciences and Humanities to
come together around various methodologies and archival practices, and
explore the following topics and questions:
- Politics of language and translation in multilingual or internationally
circulated publications.
- Trans-networks: serial print culture as an intersectional axis for
place, culture, genre, language, race, gender, sexuality.
- Does printed matter “translate” digitally?
- How does the library intervene in its archived periodicals through
systems of cataloging, binding, and preservation? How does this affect the
accessibility of these collections for researchers?
- Gaps in the archive: what periodicals and other printed ephemera have
been left out? What can be done to source and preserve historical
periodicals originally not held in collections?
- Likewise, what historical print magazines have not been digitized? What
geographic-linguistic regions, gender, cultural, religious, and racial
orientations are neglected?
- Effective strategies for making visible and accessible digitized
collections through Open Source platforms, as well as data visualization
and digital mapping projects. Distant versus close reading strategies.
Possible pedagogical applications.
- The role and relevance of the print-based mag in our highly digital
moment.
- How does the digital magazine correspond with or subvert the conception
of periodical as a material product and cultural form?
- How do zines, comics, and avant-garde publications resist the potential
for the periodical to be simply an inevitable by‐product of consumerist,
capitalist culture? Do they?
All panels and the keynote address will be held at the Institute for Public
Knowledge at New York University. Site visits to relevant periodical
collections at the New York Public Library and Barnard Zine Library, as
well as the library of the Museum of Modern Art, have also been arranged.
*Those interested in participating should submit a CV and abstract of no
more than 300 words by e-mail with the subject heading: IPK SYMPOSIUM ON
THE PERIODICAL to organizer Meghan Forbes <mlf269(a)nyu.edu>
<mlf269(a)nyu.edu>du>, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge,
no later than Friday, February 3, 2017.*
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Karla Nielsen, Ph.D., MSLIS
Curator of Literature
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