June 18-20, 2014 – University of Amsterdam
Preliminary Programme
Wednesday 18 June
16:00-18:00: KEYNOTE
Jacob Soll (University of Southern California) – Early Modern News Between Public and Secret Spheres
Thursday 19 June
9:30-10:30: Keynote
Brendan Dooley (University College Cork) – International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects
Session 1: 11:00-12:30
Carmen Espejo Cala (Universidad de Sevilla) – The Invention of the Gazette
Joop Koopmans (University of Groningen) – The Second Life of Early Modern Newspaper Reports in Dutch News Periodicals
Lunch
Session 2: 14:00-15:30
Paola Molino (University of Vienna) – Newsletters from Italy or Italian Newsletters? A Comparative View of the Fuggerzeitungen
Will Slauter (Paris 8) – News Piracy in Early Modern England
Session 3: 15:30-17:00
Una McIlvenna (University of Sydney) – When the News was Sung: Ballads as News Media in Early Modern Europe
Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam) – Reading Newspapers in the Dutch Golden Age
Conference Dinner
Friday 20 June
Session 4: 9:30-11:00
Paul Nelles (Carleton University, Ottawa) – Nuove di Roma: The Making of Jesuit News (1547-1565)
Stéphane Haffemeyer (Université de Caen) – Mazarin, Information, and communication during the Fronde
Session 5: 11:30-13:00
Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam) – News, Public Diplomacy, and the Beginning of the Thirty Years’ War
Kees Teszelszky (Eötvös Loránd University) – The use of news and information about Hungary and Transylvania in the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands between 1618 and 1626.
Lunch
Concluding Remarks: 14:00–15:30
- Joad Raymond (Queen Mary, London)
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