Conference Programme
.. Thursday, 11 June
13:30~14:30 – Registration
14:15~15:00 – Welcome
15:00~16:00 – Plenary session
Moderator: Jorge Pedro Sousa
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Udo Fries (University of Zurich)
Title: "FROM SHANGAI TO LONDON AND BACK: 1850 - 1900"
16:00~16:15 – Coffee Break
16:15-17:15 - Session 1
Moderator: Elsa Simões
Speakers & Titles:
Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona)
.. "EUROPE IN THE EYES OF THE EARLY NEW YORK TIMES"
Isabel Ermida (University of Minho)
.. "EDGAR ALLAN POE AND NEWSPAPER HOAXES: SENSATIONALISM IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESS"
17:30 – Reception – Porto d’Honra
.. Friday, 12 June
9:30~10:30 – Session 2
Moderator: Jorge Pedro Sousa
Speakers & Titles:
Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
.. “TRANSLATED OUT OF THE DUTCH COPPIES VERBATIM: TRANSLATION STRATEGIES
IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH PRINT NEWS"
Sara Barker (School of History, University of Leeds)
.. "TRUE HISTORIES? READING AND RE-READING THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
THROUGH NEWS PAMPHLETS AND HISTORIES"
10:30~10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Session 3
Moderator: Sandra Tuna
Speakers & Titles:
Birte Bös (University of Duisburg-Essen)
.. “STRATEGIES AND EFFECTS OF SELF- AND OTHER-PRESENTATIONS OF 18TH-CENTURY NEWSMAKERS"
Martin Conboy (University of Sheffield)
.. "WRITING SOCIAL CLASS: RADICAL DEPARTURES"
Marianna Hintikka, (University of Turku) and Minna Nevala (University of Helsinki)
.. "FALLEN WOMEN AND PUBLIC BODIES IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS"
12:30~14:30 – Lunchtime
14:30~16:00 Session 4
Moderator: Patrícia Teixeira
Speakers & Titles:
Francisco Baena, Carmen Espejo and Carlota Fernández Travieso [Research Group IBEMNEWS ¬ University of Seville, University Pompeu-Fabra, University of Coruña]
.. “EMERGING JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE IN SPAIN": A PROPOSAL FOR XML-TEI ENCODING
OF EARLY MODERN GAZETTES
Ester Amaral de Paula Minga (University Nova of Lisboa)
.. "THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND THE MORAL CHALLENGES
TO THE PROFESSION NOWADAYS"
Maija Stenvall (University of Helsinki)
.. "UNNAMED SOURCES AS RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTS IN NEWS AGENCY REPORTS – A DIACHRONIC VIEW"
16:00~16:15 - Coffee Break
16:15~17:15 Session 5
Moderator: Nicholas Brownlees
Speakers & Titles:
Elsa Simões and Sandra Tuna (Fernando Pessoa University)
.. “A STUDY IN MULTIMODALITY: CAPTIONS, TEXT AND IMAGES IN THE PORTUGUESE POPULAR NEWSPAPER ‘ANTÓNIO MARIA’ AND IN THE BRITISH MAGAZINE ‘PUNCH’"
Elsa Simões (Fernando Pessoa University)
.. "JOURNALISM IN THE WORKS OF P.G. WODEHOUSE AND DOROTHY L. SAYERS: NEWSPAPER-MEN,
SLEUTHS AND CON-ARTISTS"
20:00 Conference Dinner
Programme
Book of Abstracts
.. Saturday, 13 June
9:30~10:30 Session 6
Moderator: Birte Bös
Speakers & Titles:
Elisabetta Cecconi (University of Florence)
.. “SHAPING REALITY IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR ADVERSARIAL NEWS DISCOURSE: A CORPUS-BASED LEXICAL STUDY OF ROYALIST AND PARLIAMENTARIAN NEWSBOOKS AND BROADSIDES"
Sarah Ward (St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford)
.. "BOTH THE PRINTED, AND MY PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE”: NEWSGATHERING, ALLEGIANCE AND POLITICAL ACTION IN NORTH-EAST WALES ON THE EVE OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, C.1640-1642
10:30~10:45– Coffee Break
10:45~11:45 Session 7
Moderator: Isabel Ermida
Speakers & Titles:
Jorge Pedro Sousa (Fernando Pessoa University) and Helena Lima (Universidade do Porto)
.. “O ESPELHO: ILLUSTRATED PRESS AS MEANS OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA FOR PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL"
Nuno Bessa Moreira (University of Porto and CITCEM)
.. "THE NEWS DISCOURSE IN THE REVISTA DE HISTÓRIA (1912-1928)"
11:45~12:15 - Discussion and Closing Session
12:15~15:00 - Free
15.00 – Sightseeing tour