Liberas, Ghent Univ., the Laboratoire des pratiques et des identités journalistiques (ReSIC-Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) and CAMille (ULB/KBR); Christoph De Spiegeleer (Web)
Time: 05.-07.06.2025
Venue: Ghent
Programme (PDF)
Panels: Journalism and other -isms | Women journalists (I) – individual experiences | Women journalists (II) – Collective experiences | Journalists at war | In the margins of journalism | Colonialism & postcolonialism | Women journalists (III) – Crossing borders
The history of journalism has often focused on a limited number of famous individuals. Behind these big names are many journalists whose names and work have not made it into the canon. But to capture the full diversity of the journalistic field, these careers and lives need to be recovered. Three particular groups of forgotten media professionals stand out: women journalists, journalists who made an important mark on the media landscape of their colonial and post-colonial societies during periods of (de)colonization, and those who worked in sectors and areas of journalism that are often considered less prestigious. The third category includes forgotten war photographers, for example, as well as invisible news workers such as telegraph and linotype operators.
Both young researchers and established scholars, including several authors with extensive experience in professional journalism, will present new research on the experiences of forgotten journalists in very different geographical and historical contexts from biographical or prosopographical perspectives. Three panels will focus on the individual and collective experiences of women journalists and the international reporting of French journalist Élisabeth Sauvy and American journalist Charlotte Ebener. Several papers will also highlight the activities of women war correspondents during World War I.
The program includes three keynote lectures from Marie-Eve Thérenty (Univ. de Montpellier III), Will Mary (Louisiana State Univ.), and Noah Amir Arjomand (Univ. of California): Continue reading