Conference: The Rise of the Newspaper in Europe and America, 1600-1900
Rothenberg Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens San Marino, CA
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Conference: The Rise of the Newspaper in Europe and America, 1600-1900
Oct. 13-14 (Fri.-Sat.) The newspaper rose to centrality in modern societies by making information current, critical, legitimate, and public. Leading experts on the history of the newspaper will consider its invention, its layout, its appeal to sensation, and its claim to objectivity. The conference will explore our debt to the newspaper and our continued need for news sources that are not fake.
Registration for this 2-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20.
Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current Student I.D. Please bring your current I.D. to event day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Remarks: William Warner (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Session 1: Trusting and Distrusting the News Moderator: Rachael Scarborough King (University of California, Santa Barbara)
William Warner Unfake News: Truth and Trust and the Anglophone Newspaper
Joad Raymond (Queen Mary University of London) Waiting for Time and Tide: Skeptical News-reading Practices in Early Modern Europe
12:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00 p.m. - Session 2: Copyright and Propriety Moderator: William Warner
Will Slauter (Université Paris Diderot) Copyright and the Newspaper
Elisa Tamarkin (University of California, Berkeley) Fit to Print: A Natural History of Relevance
2:45 p.m. - Break
3:00 p.m. - Session 3: Enlightenment News Roundtable: Travelling News Moderator: Paul Goring (Norwegian Technical University at Trondheim, NTNU)
Paul Goring Spreading the News in an Expanding Information Culture
Johanne Kristiansen (NTNU) Travelling Reporters: Foreign News Gathering Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century
Marius Warholm Haugen (NTNU) Micro-travelogues in Eighteenth-Century French Gazettes
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (NTNU) Nomadic Novels: Eighteenth-Century Advertisements in North American Newspapers
Yuri Cowan (NTNU) A great instance of our frugality of words: Reporting the Local and Global Eighteenth Century in 140 Characters
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
9:00 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:30 a.m. - Session 4: Mediating the News Moderator: William Warner
Rachael Scarborough King The Multimedia News Marketplace in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Clifford Siskin (New York University) Information/Knowledge: The Physics of the Newspaper
