Symposium Archives, Literary Knowledge, and Modes of Publication in the Long 19th Century
- Date in the past
- Thursday, 13. March 2025, 09:00 - 18:00
- Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Address
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Organizer
Hosted by the DFG Project „From Patronage to the Mass Market: Institutionalizing Literary Knowledge Cultures in the 19th-Century United States“
Event Type
Workshop
March 13-14, 2025
Program - Thursday:
9:00-10:00h: coffee served
10:00-10:30h: Workshop opening
10:30-11:30h: Ruth Mayer (Hannover): “Ida B. Wells, the Pamphlet, and Backwards Modernity”
11:30-12:30h: Eurie Dahn (SUNY): “Precarious Institutions: Black Magazines and Periodical Genealogies”
12:30-14:00h: Lunch
14:00-15:00h: Frank Newton (Mainz): “Assembled Texts: Indigenous Periodicals and/as Archives”
15:00-16:00h: Dustin Breitenwischer (Hamburg): “'There is abundance of material‘: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Frederick Douglass”
16:00-16:30h: Coffee Break
16:30-17:30h: Alexander Starre (Heidelberg): “Formatting Literary Knowledge in US Mass Magazines around 1900”
18:30: Dinner
Program - Friday:
9:30-10:30h: Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg): "From the Edinburgh to The Little Review: Magazine Culture and the Rise of Peer Review in the Long Nineteenth Century”
10:30-11:30h: Florian Sedlmeier (Bochum): "Anthology, Genre, and Reading: Harper's Novelettes"
11:30-12:00h: Coffee Break
12:00-13:00h: Mark Alan Mattes (Louisville): “'Nothing of interest in this paper': Letters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Newspapers"
13:00-14:30h: Lunch
14:00-15:00h: Maxi Albrecht (Siegen): “German-American City Mysteries and Serial Circulation in Antebellum America”
15:00-16:00h: Philipp Löffler (Heidelberg): “‘The Graphic Arts Event of the Decade:’ Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad in Context”
16:00-16:30h: Concluding Discussion
followed by reception