About our digital symposium for 2020
Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals, this digital symposium will highlight some of the most innovative and exciting work in the field of periodical studies. It will also provide an opportunity for those interested in the study of American Periodicals (broadly conceived) to come together to discuss the state of the field.
RSAP Online will be held on May 21-22, 2020
Over the course of two afternoons, the symposium will consist of three roundtables (including the RSAP Article Prize Roundtable), a concluding discussion, and the society’s business meeting. You are warmly welcome to attend as much or as little of the symposium as you’d like.
Free Registration
There is no cost to attend this symposium, but for planning purposes registration is required.
Discount on Membership & American Periodicals
There is no requirement to join RSAP to attend the symposium, but all registrants will receive a 20% membership discount. Membership includes a subscription to our journal, American Periodicals.
Social Media
More information can also be found on our website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed. On Twitter, this symposium will use the hashtag #RSAP2020.
Supporters
This event is sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals, with support from the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts.
Brief Schedule
May 21
12:30 – 1 PM – Technical Warm up
1:00 – 1:15 PM – Welcome & Introductions
1:30 – 2:30 PM – New Approaches to Comics and Periodicals
2:30 – 3:30 PM – Periodicals, Protest, and the South
May 22
1:00 – 1:15 PM – Welcome & Introductions
1:15 – 2:15 PM – RSAP Article Prize Roundtable
2:15 – 2:20 PM – Break
2:20 – 3:15 PM – RSAP Community Conversations
3:15 – 3:45 PM – RSAP Business Meeting
May 21, 2020
12:30 – 1:00 PM – Technical Warm-up session
All are welcome to log on early to test your connections & video software.
1:00 – 1:15 PM – Welcome & introductions
Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University, President, RSAP
Jean Lee Cole, Loyola University, Editor, American Periodicals
1:15 – 2:15 PM – New Approaches to Comics and Periodicals
Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals and the Comics Circle
Chair: Alex Beringer, University of Montevallo
- “From Supplementary Pleasures to Scheduled Excitement: Toward a Theory of Comics as/and Periodical Media,” Felix Brinker, American Studies, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- “A Bludgeon over Their Heads: Serial Propaganda in Terry and the Pirates,” Jingyuan Fu, University of Southern California
- “’Etc ad infin’: Seriality and Fragmentation in George Herriman’s ‘Krazy Kat,'” Jonathan Najarian, Boston University
2:15 – 2:30 PM – Break
2:30 – 3:30 PM – Periodicals, Protest, and the South
Chair: Sarah Salter, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
- “‘Here is Mildred’: Alice Childress at The Baltimore Afro-American,” Sinéad Moynihan, University of Exeter
- “Otra cosa es América que Europa”: A reparative queer diasporic reading of La Solidaridad, a Filipino Spanish newspaper published during the Propaganda Movement in Philippine History,” Steven Beardsley, University of California San Diego
- “Southern Prison Newspapers in the Midcentury United States,” Joshua Mitchell, University of Southern California
Schedule for May 22, 2020
1:00 – 1:15 PM – Welcome & introductions
1:15 – 2:15 PM – RSAP Article Prize Roundtable
Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals
Chairs: Brian Sweeney, The College of Saint Rose and James Berkey, Penn State Brandywine
- “A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South,” Jarvis McInnis, Duke University
- “‘The Lesbian Norman Rockwell’: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks,” Margaret Galvan, University of Florida
- “Reconstructing and Gendering the Distribution Networks of Godey’s Lady’s Book in the Nineteenth Century,” Amy Sopcak Joseph, Wilkes University
2:15 – 2:20 PM – Break
2:20 – 3:15 PM – RSAP Community Conversation
3:15 – 3:45 PM – RSAP Business Meeting