Various Belgian partners organise in June 2025 an international academic conference on the lived experiences and professional identities of forgotten journalists. The deadline to submit an abstract is 30 August 2024.
The conference aims to reconstruct the careers and lived experiences of a mass of anonymous news workers. Three groups of forgotten media professionals stand out (amongst others): war correspondents and foreign correspondents, female journalists, and those who founded and shaped professional journalists’ associations and trade unions behind the scenes. Thanks to the ever-increasing amount of digitised historical news media, the digitisation of genealogical sources and the growing access to the archives of professional journalists, the lives and works of forgotten journalists have become easier to trace. By focusing on lived experiences and professional identities from a historical and decentered perspective, we want to make visible those whose work has been underestimated, or whose journalistic (or partly journalistic) careers have been neglected.
All information can be found in the attached CfP.
Contact Information
Liberas
Kramersplein 23
9000 Ghent
Belgium
christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu
Contact Email
christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu
URL https://www.liberas.eu/call-for-papers-colloquium-forgotten-journalists-2025/
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Publishing in the Archives Profession 