Already looking forward to conference season, which will start in May in Montpellier with Médias 19 (haven't presented in French in such a long time!). Who else is going to #RSVP2026 and #BAVS2026? I've already booked my ferry from Dublin to Holyhead for the Sunday (13:50-16:05 with Irish Ferries)

As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS! #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies

Just submitted my proposal entitled "Worldwide fin-de-siècle scam ad syndication: the case of the Morse Manufacturing Company"! Which other #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies scholars are hoping to meet up in Dublin?

Has any #BookHistory or #PeriodicalStudies scholar joined the Open Science Network pilot? "Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers." Promising for scholarly communication!

Started playing around today with LERA, a collation tool developed at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It's very promising! Thanks to @poeckelmann.bsky.social for setting up the instance so quickly! lera.uzi.uni-halle.de #DH #TextualScholarship #BookHistory #ScholarlyEditing

Ah, had I waited 10 years, I might not have needed to do all that encoding myself! Went down to the level of the paragraph to collate 2 🇬🇧 translations alongside their 🇫🇷 source text. When parts weren't translated, I segmented even more! It took—as most #DH projects—way more time than I anticipated😅

Thank God cause I had completely forgotten about the deadline!

If all goes well, this will be my #BookHistory conference season in 2026 🤞 Médias19 18-20 May @ Montpellier @sharpweb.org 7-9 July online no CfP @rs4vp.org 23-25 July @tcddublin.bsky.social 🗓️ 1 Nov 👉 rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere... #ESPRit2026 9-11 Sep @ kbr.be 🗓️ 7 Jan 👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...

Another #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies CFP: this time for #RSVP2026! 🗓️ Applications Due November 1

It's out, #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies peeps! Here's the CFP for the 14th annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World” 🗓️ Deadline is 7 January 2026 👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...

Looking forward to guest lecture about #BookHistory to Sophie's class in Utrecht! You can have a look at the slides... It's based on my dataset on the reprinting of first-wave Gothic novels in the 19th century 👉 popnewseries.hypotheses.org/574

Looking forward to #ESPRit2026 being closer by in Brussels on 9-11 September at the beautiful Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR). The CFP will be circulated by the end of the month! #ESPRit2025

We're closing #ESPRit2025 by celebrating the 2024 ESPRit Prize: *The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023) ed. by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck & Birgit van Puymbroeck @edinburghup.bsky.social The committee was unanimous in their decision, calling it a “genuine tour de force”

Interesting experience now at #ESPRit2025 which reminds me of the first conference of Médias 19 in 2015 (@pinsonm19.bsky.social!): a (keynote) presentation in Spanish with slides in English (as opposed to French at Médias 19). Let's see how much I can grasp...

Now to Romania with Roxana Patraș (and Antonio Patraș in spirit)! The first Romanian novel to be published in feuilleton is *Pustnicul* by Graf Valberg (pseudonym) in *Propăşirea* in 1844. This was the first moment of synchronization of Romanian literature (with French literature?) #ESPRit2025

María Dolores Narbona Carrión is recovering the American feminist writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911). She has found assemblage theory very fruitful to use Phelps's non-fiction periodical publications to provide insight into her literary works. #ESPRit2025

My 2nd panel of the day starts w/ @clementdessy.bsky.social who's working on literary translations in French-language little magazines (1880-1914) He uncovers forgotten translators, or famous writers unknown as translators, such as Alfred Jarry #ESPRit2025 👇 #OpenAccess ed. @macharlier.bsky.social

Next up: Stanislava Barać with “The Spanish Civil War as an Interconnecting Topic of the Popular Front Feminist Magazines” She chose the topic cause #ESPRit2025 is held in Spain (Málaga). It acts as a sequel to a 2023 talk at "Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations".

Kicking off the second day of the conference with Vivienne Schommer with “From Singular to Assembled: How Syrian Women’s Periodicals Created Community”. She works on the period of the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (1923−1946), #ESPRit2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate...

Jørgen Burchardt—guest researcher at the Middelfart Museum in Denmark—presents on a sequel to his COVID project: “Digitisation of Historical Typefaces: An Analysis of Accuracy and Opportunities” He starts with a picture of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social to show how it used to be done #ESPRit2025

We were 2 presenters on my panel at #ESPRit2025, but the other one didn't show, so I was moved to Quentin Lefort's panel, which I had been bummed I couldn't attend! Tout est bien qui finit bien... His talk: "Reconstructing Assemblages: Coding [Children's] Magazine Heterogeneity through Databases"

Here we go! I'm presenting in the next session at #ESPRit2025... As usual, here are my slides with the sources for the photographs 👇

Next up: “Recipes and Remedies: Food and Domestic Medicine in the *Family Herald Magazine*” @loubree.bsky.social got to the *Family Herald* via a novel: *The Beth Book* (1897) by Sarah Grand. #ESPRit2025

In her talk “‘Delighted and surprised at “getting into print”’: Reader Contributions and Community in the *Lady of the House* [1890-1923]”, Lauren Ottavini pays very close attention to class. #ESPRit2025 See @acidrains.bsky.social's article on the periodical irishmediahistory.com/2015/09/29/l...

Florian Gödel's presentation reminded me of Nicolas Gauthier's database of French serial novels, *Le Rez-de-chaussée*, based at @uwaterloo.ca. It seems to be in the process of being revamped... #ESPRit2025

Florian Gödel is interested the internal diversity of the French feuilleton using Mark Turner's "twin engines of periodicals" (2020): seriality and miscellaneity. #ESPRit2025 Turner's article is available for free without formatting: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Kicking #ESPRit2025 off with Alessia Della Rocca—who I saw talking about the French clandestine press in Leeds #ESPRit2023 Her talk this year👉“Genres and formats of the French clandestine press in the transmission of cultural dissidence” 🇫🇷Un de ses articles journals.openedition.org/pratiques/16...

Just arrived at #ESPRit2025 after a hard night at the hostel... It's my first conference in Southern Europe, so I'm not used to these types of campuses! Stunning!

Ahead of #ESPRit2025 next week (3-5 September) in Málaga, I've gone through the programme and searched every name on here. It seems like there's 9 of us. You can find us all in this starter pack! #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies

Who is going to #ESPRit2025 in Málaga 3-5 September? I barely know anyone in the programme & was wondering with whom I'd hang out on my first evening there as I arrive too late to attend the Postgraduate Workshop! I was also wondering if anyone wanted to share a room or stay in the same hostel...

Wooohooo! the crowd errupts with joy at learning that #RSVP2026 will be held at Trinity College Dublin, 23-25 July! 🥳 #RSVP2025

Jason praised Linda Hughes's reading of one of his poems from this collection as she introduced him for the Wolff Lecture of #RSVP2025, pointing out he must be the only Wolff Lecturer who is a published poet... Go Montréal go, GO HABS GO!

I didn't think to share the link for the @rs4vp.org starter kit at the beginning of #RSVP2025! Click on it to be able to easily follow fellow RSVP peeps, and reply if you'd like me to add you 😛

Juliet Shields is not on @bsky.app, so I won't live-post about her "Scottish Networks and London Periodicals" talk... I'll take a break for my poor little back... #RSVP2025

Next up @sarahpelletier.bsky.social "Wives, Sisters, Daughters, and Sometimes Workers: Women Typesetters and the Patriarchal Voice of *The Printer’s Miscellany*" 🇨🇦 typographical trade publication from St. John's, New Brunswick digitized by Canadiana (@crkn-rcdr.bsky.social) #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

We're being introduced to strike balance sheet by @drewhobbs.bsky.social "A financial report of money raised to support workers on strike or locked out during an industrial disputes" It's a periodical: - open, longing for closure (ie the end of the strike) - numbered issues #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

In contrast to what was said in the Q&A, *The People's Periodical and family library* was illustrated. Here are illustrations I found online. First installment of "The String of Pearls", n° 7 Source: @wikicommons.bsky.social #RSVP2025 #pennybloods

Really interesting how Caroline Jones understands tabloid culture as being all about competition, and thus tied to the daily newspapers She thus chose her 25 provincial newspapers for good geographic spread, but also for rivals within the same market to analyze those dynamics #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

My back hurts too much, I need to stand, and Caroline is speaking too fast for me to live-post anyways... #RSVP2025

Delighted to see a paper on "The String of Pearls: A Romance" from Edward Lloyd's *The People's Periodical and Family Library* (1846-1847)! Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms. #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

In response to another question, Alison Chapman explained that she teaches Victorian poetry in the special collections. When looking at a single poem, she gets out all the places in which it appears, which gets students to think about print culture. #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

Again in the Q&A, Margaret D. Stetz asked @nmhouston.bsky.social about how to get people interested in Victorian literature while skirting biography, which seems to be the only thing that interests people beyond Victorianists. #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

In the Q&A I asked @nmhouston.bsky.social about this post, and she rephrased it as @francescac.bsky.social found over 90 *hits* across 12 databases. She insisted that we are not finding *poems* but *algorithmic search results*, of which we don't understand the priorities. #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

Excited to hear my co-panelist from #RSVP24, @francescac.bsky.social! She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception. #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

Next up is Alison Chapman presenting on the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP, based at @uvichcmc.bsky.social) 32% of all DVPP poems are overtly related to another poem She argues that periodicals with high cultural prestige invest in networks of poems #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

This morning, starting with @nmhouston.bsky.social who will reflect on what happens when we create data from periodicals. She situates her work as "data-rich literary history", following Katherine Bode's terminology in *A World of Fiction* (2019, p. 4) #RSVP2025

Send out the bat signal here if your #RSVP2025 room is empty and I'll come over!

Plan is still on: meeting up as sessions end at 18.30 at the entrance of the building. I'm wearing a black and white knee-length dress. #RSVP2025