To quote from a memorandum regarding the founding of *Exile: A Literary Quarterly*, I'm guessing Jutta Ernst visited York University Archives & Special Collections to consult the Barry Callaghan fonds...

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Sabina Fazli on indie magazines, e.g. Sirene magazine, printed on paper made from algae growing in the Venice lagoon
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*Exile: A Literary Quarterly* was founded in 1972 by Barry Callaghan (born in 1937).

He is the son of Morley Callaghan (1903–1990) who founded with Ezra Pound (1885–1972) the short-lived 4-issue little magazine *The Exile* (1927–1928)👇

Barry's quarterly is thus referencing his father's
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It's a funny feeling to be hearing about the Toronto-based *Exile: A Literary Quarterly* (1972-today) in Brussels from German scholar Jutta Ernst!

👇 First issue

exilequarterly.com

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7.3. Socialist and Marxist
Periodicals: Jelena Lalatović on
Labour Migration & Proto-
Environmentalist Debates in t/
Victorian Socialist Press, Jay Kerslake on the British Women’s Trade Union
Magazine t/ Woman Worker &
Stanislava Barać on Marksizam u svetu (Marxism in the World), 1974–89 #ESPRit2026

7.1 features Sarah Borree — “Constructing
Similarity and Otherness: Visual
Culture and Colonial Imagination in
Kolonie und Heimat”
Christa Spreizer — “The ‘World’ of Die
Welt der Frau & Evi Heinz — “‘Heimatlos':
Cosmopolitan Culture in Der
Querschnitt (1921-36)” #ESPRit2026

Back once again like the periodicals master we begin day 3 of our annual conference with Session 7. Beginning with 7.1. Between Heimat and Welt:
Periodicals, Otherness and
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6.4. Irish Writing & Periodical Cultures in a Transnational Context: w/ Elke D’hoker on International Short Fiction in Irish Literary Mags, Sinéad Moynihan on Irish Writers, Failure & The New Yorker, & Elena Ogliari on the Dublin Magazine, Irish-Jewish Networks and Pluralist World-Making #ESPRit2026

6.3. Digital Approaches: featuring Morgane Ott on Performing the Illustrated Press: Rotogravure in Belgian Interwar Family Magazines Networks and the Context of World’s Fairs & Jan Lampaert on Visual Network Analysis as Method: Rethinking the Flemish Literary Underground (1966-69) #ESPRit2026

To close the day, art historian Samuel Bibby discusses cut-outs in British feminist periodicals in the 1970s-80s.

He coined the term "paracodical objects" as an analogy to Gérard Genette's "paratextual", but he centres the material nature and physical (visual) qualities.

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*L’Officiel de la photographie et du cinéma* started as a supplement of *Photo-Monde*.

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I've had a hard time finding digitizations or photos of Alice Morin's materials: photography magazines.

👇 U.S. Camera

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Journals as political infrastructure
Giordano Panosetti on Marxist journals in Italy, France and Argentina
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... a supplement described in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social catalogue as "Publication der Zeitschrift Europa", a reference to *Europa. Chronik der gebildeten Welt* by von August Lewald gegründete Zeitschrift (1835–1885)

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American magazines sold alongside toilet paper in Australia. A form of cultural power, according to Celine Mansanti, talking about back copies of American pulp magazines
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Nora Ramtke also discussed *Album der Boudoirs*...

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Translation of the title by DeepL:

*A Separate Library, or Sufficient Information and Impartial Reviews of Several, for the Most Part, New Books and Other Scholarly Matters* (1718)

Nora is interested in the supplement being "abgesonderte", or "separate"

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Nora Ramtke discusses periodical supplements from the 1710s to the 1830s in the German states.

👇 the fronspiece of the *Abgesonderte Bibliothec oder zulängliche Nachrichten und unpartheyische Gutachten von einigen mehrenteils neuen Büchern und andern gelehrten Materien* (1718)

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Which city is controlled by lesbians? Montreal, according to Will Straw

In answer to my question regarding "memesis", Matthew Rubery explained that @ryancordell.org's virality is the first step of text being reprinted... Matthew and Stephan's "memesis" is about the adaptation that follows with other media and people making it their own.

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