Abstract
In spring 2020, during the cataclysmic first wave of COVID-19, academic conferences across the world were postponed or cancelled. A rare exception was in the field of periodical studies: an asynchronous online conference, Future States: Modernity and National Identity in Popular Magazines, 1890–1945, co-directed by Andrew Thacker (NTU) and Tim Satterthwaite, which opened on schedule and ran for three weeks (30 March–17 April 2020). A selection of five papers from the conference forms the body of this special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies, and these are introduced below. Given the spate of online academic events that have followed, this introduction first offers some general thoughts on the Future States conference model, in the hope that its pioneering approach may be of interest.
Highlights
A rare exception was in the field of periodical studies: an asynchronous online conference, Future States: Modernity and National Identity in Popular Magazines, 1890–1945, co-directed by Andrew Thacker (NTU) and myself, which opened on schedule and ran for three weeks (30 March–17 April 2020)
Given the spate of online academic events that have followed — including the highly successful 9th ESPRit Conference (14–17 June 2021) — I propose first to offer some general thoughts on the Future States conference model, in the hope that our pioneering approach may be of interest
What seems beyond question is that the online conference, in one form or another, has arrived: there can be no reflexive return to the old model of in-person international conferences, in which the environmental costs of long-haul flights, in particular, were largely discounted
Summary
A rare exception was in the field of periodical studies: an asynchronous online conference, Future States: Modernity and National Identity in Popular Magazines, 1890–1945, co-directed by Andrew Thacker (NTU) and myself, which opened on schedule and ran for three weeks (30 March–17 April 2020).1 A selection of five papers from the conference forms the body of this special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies, and these are introduced below. Given the spate of online academic events that have followed — including the highly successful 9th ESPRit Conference (14–17 June 2021) — I propose first to offer some general thoughts on the Future States conference model, in the hope that our pioneering approach may be of interest.
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