5th-7th June 2012
University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/cems/emnews

The Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex is to host a multi-disciplinary postgraduate conference on News in Early Modern Europe. We invite proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes or panels of up to three speakers that address any aspect of this theme. Although the conference is particularly directed towards postgraduates, we welcome scholars at all levels of their career.

Plenary speakers include: Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia), Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews).

Please send abstracts of papers (of no more than 200 words) or panel theme with list of speakers and abstracts to Simon Davies (S.F.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) by 31st January 2012.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

News in print
Manuscript news
The changes in news reporting across the period
Reading the news
Politics in the news
Religion in the news
Censorship and regulation
News and the state
Sermons and the delivery of news
News and the stage
News ballads
News from capital to provinces / from city to country
The international exchange of news
The reporting of new ideas and discoveries
Sensational news
The consumption of news across genders
Specialist news
Coteries and news networks
Secrecy vs sharing
Private vs public
Current events in literature
News and credit
The relationship between news and history
Digital approaches to working with early modern news