Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices IV: Mapping

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Papers in this stream analyze the construction and (re)negotiation of communist/socialist internationalism through cultural institutions (e.g., periodicals, publishers, film studies, theaters) and practices (e.g., translation, layout design, performance), focusing on the opportunities they created for local agency, forms, and meanings within the transnational pursuit of socialist politics. Contributions address different periods of state socialism (pre-WWII, post-WWII) and places within the Soviet Union, socialist Eastern Europe, or other parts of the world in a comparative manner. Panel IV explores the spatial and relational dimensions of socialist periodicals through DH methodologies, revealing unnoticed patterns in the circulation of ideas and translated works across national and linguistic boundaries.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 20th Century

Chair

• Maija Burima, Daugavpils U (Latvia)

Papers

• 'The Scientific Life of Libraries': Professional Formations and Practices in the 'Soviet Bibliography' Journal - Alexander Whelan, New York U

• Mapping 'The International Literature': The Journal Behind the Scenes and on the Cover - Elena Ostrovskaya

• Disclosed Reading: Mapping Influence in Periodical Studies - Georgii Korotkov, Stanford U

• Translation as an Internationalist Pragmatics: The Digital Footprint of Foreign Authors in Late Socialist East European Periodicals - Jessie Labov, Corvinus U (Hungary)

Discussant

• Dmitry Arzyutov, Ohio State U