CfP reminder: submissions are still open for JEPS 12.2 (Winter 2027)! We welcome articles on periodicals from the 17th century to today, across disciplines.

📆 Deadline: 1 December 2026.

📩 Submit: openjournals/ugent.be/jeps

#periodicalstudies #cfp #callforsubmissions #articles #jeps

Coming up in Marburg next week, 9-10 Oct. 2026: "Periodicals and Their Practices of Selection: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", co-organised by our Review Editor, Florian Gödel (@goedelf.bsky.social)! More information and programme: periodicals.hypotheses.org/1927

Next up is @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social about Beatrice Tunstall (1889-1966):

"Born and grew up in in Grappenhall. As a best selling novelist she based herself in Cheshire. Her subject matters were Cheshire customs, local histories and the countryside."
—Warrington Women: An Historical A-Z
#ESPRit2026

On my way back to Paris after three incredible days at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) for #ESPRit2026.

Beyond the stimulating keynotes and panels, today's highlight was undoubtedly a tour of the library's printing museum with the lovely and knowledgeable Bart Op de Beeck. Many thanks to him!

After a final coffee break we'll close the conference with a keynote from the brilliant Christopher Ouma (Duke Uni), entitled: 'Black Possibility: Small Magazines & Pan-African Imagination'. The session will be chaired by none other than @esprit-jeps.bsky.social's editor-in-chief Cedric Van Dijck!

9.3. Commercial Perspectives: Marcela Scibiorska, Transnational Perspectives on North Francophone Publishers’ Commercial Magazines, Barbora Svobodová on Corporate Periodicals in Bat’a’s Global Expansion, & Laurel Brake on the Itinerant Contributor and the Worlds of Magazines #ESPRit2026

And now! 9.1. Forms of Dissent: Charlotte Reihs on Proletarian Periodicals & t/ Politics of Radio in the Weimar Republic, Sophie van den Elzen on black Dwarf(s), free Speech & t/ 1960s Global Student Movement, & Elizaveta Shatalova on Counterpublicity in Post-Soviet Digital Periodicals #ESPRit2026

After coffee 8.1. Magazines as Worlds & t/ Worlding of Magazines: featuring Jutta Ernst on Exile Magazine’s
Editorial Culture,
Sabina Fazli & Scott Hames on Independent Magazines &
Alternative Worlding, &
Oliver Scheiding on Traditions & Visions: The Worldmaking of Indigenous Zines #ESPRit2026

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

#ESPRit2026

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
Cosmopolitan Imagination #ESPRit2026