The CRIMEL (Interdisciplinary Research Center on Aesthetic and Literary Models) and the GRIPIC (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Information and Communication Processes) are organizing on Friday November 22, 2024, at the Carnegie library in Reims, a day of study entitled “News media in the 19th century”. This is the second act of a three-day study cycle devoted to the materiality of information, considered from both a transhistorical and transdisciplinary perspective.
The 1st meeting, devoted to the modern period (16th-18th centuries), was held on November 25, 2022. The 3rd will take place in 2026 and will focus on the 20th and 21st centuries. A volume drawn from these three days will be published in 2027.
The day is freely accessible, upon registration. It is also possible to follow it remotely, by zoom, by contacting the organizers, Lisa Bolz ([email protected]) and Alexis Lévrier ([email protected]).
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Programme
* Reception at 8:45 a.m.
* Introductory session (9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.)
– Presentation of the day by Lisa Bolz (Celsa Sorbonne University), Alexis Lévrier (University of Reims) and Luciano Piffanelli (University of Haute-Alsace)
– Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), opening conference: “News: reality, performativity, support”
* Session 2 (10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.): New media, new current affairs techniques (Chair: Adeline Wrona)
– Morgane Avellaneda (Nagoya University): “Manage current events by creating new media: Napoleon’s Campaign newspapers”
– Lisa Bolz (Celsa Sorbonne University): “Exclusive, continuous information: the telegraph and telegraphic news in the 19th century”
– Joël Langonné (Catholic University of the West): “Maritime newspapers and long-distance telegraphy (1905-1914). The telegraph operator on board as a heroic figure (of journalism?) »
* Session 3 (2:15 p.m.-4 p.m.): Materiality and virality of information media (Chair: Martine Lavaud, University of Artois)
– Julien Schuh (Paris Nanterre University): “Beyond scissors and glue: materiality of virality in the 19th century”
– Camille Mas (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3): “Journalistic microforms in the Belle Époque”
– Adeline Wrona (Celsa Sorbonne University): “I accuse to the letter: from the brochure to the newspaper, typographical games and the power of the medium in the Dreyfus affair”.
* Session 4 (4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.): Illustrations and caricatures (Chair: Marie-Ève Thérenty)
– Céline Duverne (University of Reims): “Men of letters in the city: literary news through the prism of press cartoons”
– Aliénor Poitevin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3): “The illustrated supplements of major literary dailies: making an event in a subsidiary cultural periodical (1890-1900)”
* 17h30 : Conclusion
