Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies
International conference
University of Lausanne, 27-28 January 2025
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Conference program
Registration is open until January 20.
MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2025
09:00-09:30 Welcome
09:30-10:00 Introduction
- Introduction to the Conference | Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, François Vallotton and Martin Grandjean (University of Lausanne)
- The Impresso Project | Maud Ehrmann (EPFL) and Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
TRANSMEDIATIC ACTORS, NETWORKS AND PRACTICES
10:30-12:30 Session 1 | Chair: Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam)
- No Wall is Thick Enough to Stop Them" - Transmediality and Colonial-Critical Resistance in French West Africa 1900 - 191 | Philipp Horn (University of Bern)
- Geneva's Media Microcosm and the League of Nations in the Interwar Period | Martin Grandjean (University of Lausanne)
- Cross Media History in the mid-20th Century: The American Foreign Correspondents, the Rise of National Socialism, and the Convergence of Print and Radio Reporting | Norman Domeier (Charles University Prague)
- La diffusion du rock en France : approche transmédiatique (années 1960 et 1970) | Maxime Guebey (Université de Tours)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
ARCHAEOLOGIES, RECONFIGURATIONS AND NEW GENEALOGIES
14:00-16:00 Session 2 | Chair: Anne-Katrin Weber (University of Lausanne)
- Animation as a Transmedia Catalyst | Antoine Rigaud (Université Paris Nanterre)
- ‘The One-Eyed Devil’: How Radio and Television were Perceived and Received in Wales, 1920s-1960s | Jamie Medhurst (Aberystwyth University)
- CD-ROMS in Print”: Transmediality in Early Digital Culture | Alina Volynskaya and Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg)
- The Fax and Teletext. Imagining the Future in the 1980s and 1990s | Jesper Verhoef (University of Groningen)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
CIRCULATIONS, ADAPTATIONS AND RECIPROCAL INFLUENCES
16:30-18:30 Session 3 | Chair: Yannick Rochat (University of Lausanne)
- Digital Throws of the Dice: A Genealogy of Rhetoric in Fallout | Clay Foye (EPFL)
- Impact des temporalités divergentes entre médias et territoires : le cas Dragon Ball au Japon, en Europe et aux États-Unis | Bounthavy Suvilay (Université de Lille)
- Des serveurs BBS à la TSR : l'histoire transmédiatique de "Star Stormer" (1991) | Pierre-Yves Hurel and Guillaume Guenat (University of Lausanne)
- Les nouveaux modes de production et de circulation de l’«actualité littéraire». La presse littéraire européenne francophone à l’épreuve du numérique | Léa Kœnig (EHESS)
18:30-20:00 Social event
TUESDAY 28 JANUARY 2025
09:00-10:00 Keynote lecture
- Beyond Entangled Media Histories? Reflections on Historical Research after the Transnational and Transmedia Turns | Marie Cronqvist (Linköping University)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
TRANSMEDIA MOBILIZATIONS AND PROPAGANDA
10:30-12:30 Session 4 | Chair: Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg) |
- Transmediality and Colonial Diplomacy: The Berlin Conference (1884-1885) Through Diplomatic Correspondence, “Livre Jaunes” and the French Press | Ferdaous Affan (University of Luxembourg)
- Faire une histoire visuelle et médiatique du tourisme, un enjeu transmédiatique : l’exemple de la Tchécoslovaquie en contexte de guerre froide | Marie Blanc (Université Grenoble Alpes)
- The Intellectual Life that Oil Fostered: Exploring the History of a ‘Media Ecosystem’ in Latin America (1950-1980) | Juan-David Murillo (Instituto Caro y Cuervo)
- Transmedia Strategies in the Swiss Bankers' Association's Public Relations (1965-77) | Arthur Michelet (University of Lausanne)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF THE TRANSMEDIA APPROACH
14:00-15:30 Session 5 | Chair: Marie Cronqvist (Linköping University) |
- Just to be Safe. Towards a Frame Analysis of 70 years of Global Debate on the Civil Usage of Nuclear Power Between Science, Activists and Newspapers | Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg) and Kaspar Beelen (University of London)
- A Transmedia History Approach to Studying the Cultural Politics of Software Interfaces, 1977-1995 | Patryk Wasiak (Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Archiving Multiplatform Conspiracy Social Spaces: A Case Study of the QAnon Counter-Public | Dusan Bozalka (University Paris-Panthéon-Assas)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Session 5 (continued)
- From Oral History to Metadata? Report from the Oral History and Radio Archivists (OHRA) Pilot Project | Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam) and Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg)
- Research Data Infrastructures Before They Were Cool: Microfilms, Photocopies and Early Digital Storage Devices in Humanities Scholarship (1950-1990) | Anna-Maria Sichani (University of London)
17:00-17:30 Conclusion
- Conference Conclusion | Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, François Vallotton and Martin Grandjean (University of Lausanne)
- A Transmedia Impresso? | Maud Ehrmann (EPFL) and Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg)