BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Print Media in the Colonial World - Speaker to be confirmed DTSTART:20150416T080000Z DTEND:20150416T170000Z UID:TALK55722@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:24901 DESCRIPTION:Across the colonial world\, the nineteenth and twentieth centu ries saw a flourishing of newspapers and periodicals – some fleeting new ssheets\, others enduring forums of discussion\, some published by the col onial state\, others by enterprising editors and entrepreneurs. In recent years\, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these print media in colonial societies. This\, however\, has tended to focus on the c ontent rather than the form\, mining newspapers for information rather tha n considering their constitution. What’s more\, it has tended to focus o n certain publications and regions at the expense of others. This conferen ce brings together scholars working in different disciplines on the coloni al societies of Africa\, the Middle East\, East and South East Asia to con sider colonial newspapers in a comparative perspective. It will consider t he newspaper\, the journal and the magazine as tools of education and gove rnment whose owners\, contributors and readers often thought of these medi a as edifying publications. They were purveyors not just of knowledge abo ut their own societies and the wider world\, but also of political prescri ptions\, linguistic conventions\, and ethical norms\, which reinforced not ions of the self and the other\, the state and society\, modernity and its lexicons. Together\, we hope to encourage enduring and inter-disciplinary conversation amongst scholars about the place newspapers\, magazines\, an d journals played in the constitution of vernacular modernity in various l ocales\, and to lay down the foundations for a new global history of print in the long twentieth century. LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DP END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR