20 May 2021: Theme: Parliament & Media (organizer: Betto van Waarden)
9.00 CET Morning coffee, BYOC (bring your own cup) (Wonder)
Wonder chat room opens for pre-conference small talk (the room remains open throughout the day for corridor chats)
9.20 CET Opening remarks by Betto van Waarden (Lund) (Zoom)
9.30 CET Panel 1: Parliaments’ own Media Communications (chair: Martin Sundby) (Zoom)
Betto van Waarden (Lund), joined by Mathias Johansson (Lund) during Q&A: “Presenting Parliament: Parliamentarians’ visions of the communication and role of parliament within the mediated democracies of Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1844–1995”
Ian Harris (Leicester): “Did the Printers’ Case Establish Liberty of the Press?”
10.30 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
11.00 CET Panel 1 continued (chair: Martin Sundby) (Zoom)
Hilde Lavell (Radboud), joined by Carla Hoetink (Radboud) during Q&A: “Television logic in the Dutch parliament in the 1970s”
Sally Young (Melbourne): “The Strange Case of Parliamentary Sensitivity to Photographs: Why parliaments have regulated photography more than broadcasting or webcasting”
12.00 CET Lunch break (Wonder)
Wonder chat room available for continued discussion of the brief presentations and small talk over lunch
13.00 CET Panel 2: Parliamentary Reporting (chair: Michael Bosetta) (Zoom)
Marcel Broersma (Groningen): “The Form and Style of Parliamentary Reporting, 1880-2005: A longitudinal and transnational approach”
Matti La Mela (Helsinki/Uppsala): “Identifying MPs and Parliamentary Debates in Finnish Historical Newspapers in the SEMPARL Project”
14.00 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
14.30 CET Panel 3: The Media as ‘Parliament’ (chair: Harm Kaal) (Zoom)
Marco Althaus (Alfelder Zeitung): “The Weimar Republic’s ‘Press Parliament’: Institutionalizing the daily government press conference in Berlin, 1918–33”
Solange Ploeg (Radboud) joined by Carla Hoetink (Radboud) during Q&A: “‘Ask today… vote tomorrow’: Political debate beyond parliament. Dutch television shows in the run-up to the 1963 and 1971 elections”
Moderator: Harm Kaal (Radboud)
15.30 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
16.00 CET Keynote (Zoom)
Donald Ritchie (US Senate): “The Congressional Press Galleries: Causes and consequences of self-regulation”. Moderator: Betto van Waaarden (Lund)
17.00 CET Chat and cocktails, BYOC (bring your own concoction) (Wonder)
Day 2 (21 May): Digital Sources, Digital Methods (organizers: Marie Cronqvist/Sune Bechmann Pedersen)
9.00 CET Morning coffee, BYOC (bring your own cup) (Wonder)
Wonder chat room opens for pre-conference small-talk (the room remains open throughout the day for corridor chats).
10.00 CET Welcome and news from the EMHIS steering committee (chair: Marie Cronqvist) (Zoom)
10.30 CET Brief presentations by new EMHIS members (max 10 min each + 5 min Q&A, chair: Hugh Chignell) (Zoom)
Hermann Breitenborn (Hamburg), Natasha Kitcher (Loughborough), Mari Pajala (Turku), Emil Stjernholm (Lund), Eskil Vesterlund (Lund), John Walsh (Galway) (15 minute break halfway)
12.15 CET Lunch break (Wonder)
Wonder chat room available for continued discussion of the brief presentations and small-talk over lunch.
13.45 CET Digital sources, digital methods (max 15 min each + discussion, chair: Hans-Ulrich Wagner) (Zoom)
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Alexander Ulrich Thygesen, Josephine Møller Jensen, and Max Odsbjerg Pedersen (Aarhus): “Big Bird Twitter: Scalable readings of Sesame Street remembrance on a social media platform”
Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Lund): “Mapping tourist guidebooks: Digital approaches to the history of attractions”
Frédéric Clavert (C2DH, Luxembourg): “The Journal of Digital History and the multi-layered article”
15.15 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
15.30 CET Concluding remarks and upcoming network activities (chair: Jamie Medhurst) (Zoom)
16.00 CET Post-forum chat and cocktails, BYOC (bring your own concoction) (Wonder)