Anyone at #ESPRit2026 into karaoké 🎤 ?

If you are, add me on here and send a private message with the best way to contact you (WhatsApp? Signal? Bluesky DMs?)

Oh, cool, Maria Paganpoulou presented her research in a 2-minute video on YouTube!

*Πόλη γυναικών*—the title of this Greek feminist magazine—translates to "City of Women".

Part of the way feminist magazines were interconnected was through reviewing one another's issues...

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Lena Sophie Voß proposes ‘close aisthesis‘ as an embodied approach analogous to close reading. The Greek word "αἴσθησις" refers to the perception from all the senses

Her research concentrates on small illustrated German-language Jewish magazines in the Interwar Period in Berlin & Vienna
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For our afternoon panels we have: 3.1. Women Editors and Translators: Jarad Zimbler on Ruth Harnett's New Coin, @annagirling.bsky.social on the Large & Small Worlds of Una Marson's Cosmopolitan, & Eloise Forestier on Velma Swanston Howard’s Translations of Selma Lagerlöf in the TLS #ESPRit2026

Her name is Anita-Apollónia Nagy! She was scheduled this morning...

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I'm discovering new digitized newspapers and periodicals databases at #ESPRit2026 (BelgicaPress, Arcanum Newspapers), and according to Google, the only place they appear together is the "Databases" tab in this guide by the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 👇

Walked in late and the presenter is talking about the Hungarian Catholic youth magazine *Zaszlónk* (1902-48)—"Our Flag"—but can't find it in on the programme, so I can't tell you her name🫣

It has been digitized by Arcanum Newspapers, Eastern Europe's largest digital periodical database

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Panel 2.3. Arab Print Cultures: Katrin Köster on ʿAlawī journals as Worldmakers, Adéla Provazníková on (Non)-Fiction’s Significant Geographies in al-Diyāʾ, Cairo, & Barbara Winckler on Syrian Women’s journals of the 1920s. #ESPRit2026

After lunch we have our 2nd set of p/panels for day 1 of #ESPRit2026 2.1. African Print Cultures (2) Dyoniz Kindata on Periodicals, audiences, & world-making in Kiongozi, Dominique Ranaivoson on 'Teny soa' in Madagascar, & Michelle Kelly on the 'World' through Ghanaian mid. C20 periodical culture.

Martina Mecco presents on the *Rozpravy Aventina* (1925-1934) review founded & directed by Czech journalist and publisher Otokar Štorch-Marien

👇 In the cartoon from the front page of the first issue, he introduces two men to one another: Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic and František Xaver Šalda

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It's worth pointing out that all abstracts are available on the #ESPRit2026 conference website.

I will therefore aim to grab your interest by posting visual content more than share the presenter's argument, which you should be able to find in their abstract.

Next up is Christina Bezari presents her project that has just won an @erc.europa.eu grant 🥳

Taking on a huge geographic area, she will trace 20th-century literary women's networks, aiming to:

- recover women's voices
- map connections
- decolonize the canon
(and I missed the 4th goal)
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I whole-heartedly agree w/ Elizaveta Berquin: periodicals are best* understood as a dataset

She turned the tables of contents of the 2 volumes into a table and created another table for contributors, recording their dates of birth (to calculate age) & location

*maybe that's me, not her
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Elizaveta Berquin also researched *Blagonamerenny* (“The Well-Intentioned”), a journal founded by Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy in Brussels in 1926.

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Elizaveta Berquin presents on a Russian émigré publishing outside of the big "centres" —Berlin in the 1920s; Paris, 1930s— Brussels-based Dmitry Shakhovskoy (1902-89)

She has been doing incredible recovery work digging into the Shakhovskoy Family Papers held at @umassamherst.bsky.social
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I'm in this panel, but Johannes Makar has been swapped out for Christina Bezari on the representations of Maghrebi women writers in the Spanish press.

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Point important: ces traductions étaient exophoniques, c'est-à-dire faites vers une langue qui n'est pas la langue maternelle.

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*La Revuo* est une revue mensuelle en espéranto publiée à Paris par Hachette de septembre 1906 à août 1914, numérisée par la Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.

Elle traduit principalement de la littérature provenant de l'empire russe, où se trouve la majorité de son lectorat.

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Les revues en espéranto contenaient beaucoup de traductions. Mais alors, quels textes choisir? Différentes opinions:

- grands classiques;
- littérature peu traduite;
- textes scientifiques ou en lien avec le commerce;

D'autres pensaient que les traductions étaient des pertes de temps.

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Et qui l'aurait cru, je découvre grâce à une conférence sur les périodiques en espéranto les plateformes de journaux, magazines et revues belges numérisés: BelgicaPress et BelgicaPeriodicals!

En page 6 de ce n° du *Petit bleu*, quotidien bruxellois à un sou: «Petite chronique esperanto»
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