The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders

The Politics of the Page. Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders

Organizer
Vincent Fröhlich, DFG research unit »Journal Literature«; Mary Ikoniadou, UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile, UK
Venue
Online via Zoom
Funded by
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
ZIP
35032
Location
Marburg
Country
Germany
From - Until
12.05.2022 - 13.05.2022
Deadline
10.05.2022
By
Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

The workshop will focus on the design and materiality of illustrated periodicals produced and read against the backdrop of the Cold War. Contributions will explore aesthetic, historical, theoretical, or methodological approaches to the 'politics of the page'.

The Politics of the Page. Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders

Illustrated periodicals have played a critical role in disseminating and performing Cold War cultural politics across national and ideological borders. In their entanglement with state or institutional actors, artistic or sports organisations, revolutionary groups and liberation movements, amongst others, periodicals have shaped notions of belonging for diverse readers, expressed in a host of visual and material formats.

The workshop will focus on the design and materiality of illustrated periodicals produced and read against the backdrop of the Cold War. Contributions will explore aesthetic, historical, theoretical, or methodological approaches to the 'politics of the page'. We will discuss visual and material strategies in periodicals and survey the ways these manifest in the layout, typography, uses of photography, choices of format, ways of production, reproduction or circulation, during the Cold War.

Registration

The workshop will be held in Zoom. if you would like to participate in the discussion, please email Matthias Hagel Hagelm@students.uni-marburg.de no later than May 10th, 2022,

The workshop is organized by subproject 8, »Seeing Film between the Lines«, Vincent Fröhlich (of the DFG research unit »Journal Literature«) and Mary Ikoniadou (UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile, UK), also in partnership with Gioula Koutsopanagou (ETMIET Research Unit, Research Centre for Modern Greece ΚΕΝΙ, at Panteion University, Greece).

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Programm

Thursday, 12.05.2022
Time Zone: UTC+1

13:45‒14:00 (Marburg, Germany) | Opening of the Virtual Conference Room
6:45 AM (Texas, USA); 7:45 AM (Toronto, USA), 14:45 (Moscow, Russia)

14:00‒14:30 | Introduction
Vincent Fröhlich (Philipps University Marburg, Germany) & Mary Ikoniadou (UClan, UK)

14:30‒15:40 | Session 1
Chair: Maria Ikoniadou (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Exporting the Polish Village: Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record in Cold War-Era Publications
Joanna Szupinska (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Necro-aesthetic as tool of propaganda in Polish press between 1945-1948 Karolina Rosiejka (University of The Arts in Poznan, Poland)

Coffee Break

16:00‒17:30 | Session 2
Chair: Vincent Fröhlich (Philipps University Marburg, Germany)

Between Counterculture and Techno-Utopianism: Galaksija magazine as a liminal space in 1970s Yugoslavia
Rujana Rebernjak (University of the Arts London, UK)

Visual exchange and the problem of censorship in the USSR during the Cold War
Ekaterina Vikulina (Russian State University for the Humanities Moscow, Russia)

The Space Race Politics of the Page
Sven Grampp (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Coffee Break

17:50‒19:00 | Session 3
Chair: TBC

Visualizing Women at Work: Idealization and Realism in Japanese Women’s
Magazines in the early Cold War
Jana Aresin (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Same pages, different politics? Reading the Political Alternatives of Cold War Italy Through the Lens of Illustrated Children Magazines, 1950-1960
Guilio Argenio (University of Padova, Venice and Verona, Italy)

19:00‒19:30 | Special Presentation
Presentation of the “Protest in Photobook” collection by Luciano Zuccaccia (Italy)

Friday, 13.05.2022
Time Zone: UTC+1

13:45‒14:00 (Marburg, Germany) | Opening of the Virtual Conference Room
6:45 AM (Texas, USA); 7:45 AM (Toronto, USA), 14:45 (Moscow, Russia)

14:00‒15:00 | Keynote

Vietnam Pictorial and The Colors of Socialist Futurity
Thy Phu (University of Toronto, Canada)

Coffee Break

15:20‒16:30 | Session 4
Chair & Discussant: Olga Shevchenko (Williams College, USA)

Cold War Containment and Postmodern Doubt, Central America and the Printed Page
Erina Duganne (Texas State University, USA)

‘A good slick picture magazine’: US visual diplomacy in the Cold War and the appeal to African audiences
Darren Newbury (University of Brighton, UK)

Coffee Break

17:00‒18:10 | Session 5
Chair: Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton, UK)

Aesthetics of Destruction and Reconstruction in East German and Polish Illustrated Magazines (1965-1980)
Noemi Quagliati (Deutsches Museum München, Germany)

Hungarian sun, Czechoslovak dream, Swiss grid: Graphic design across Cold War borders
Jennifer McHugh (University of Southampton, UK)

Coffee Break

18:20‒19:15 | Closing discussion led by Andrés Mario Zervigón (Rutgers, USA)

Contact (announcement)

Matthias Hagel
Hagelm@students.uni-marburg.de

http://politicsofthepage.com