CFP: First Wave of Russian Emigration Symposium No. 3 - Emigration and Press

The aim of the 3rd symposium

“The First Wave of Russian Emigration: Emigration and the Press”

will be to explore the range of current research topics regarding the press of and about the first wave of Russian emigration.

Papers in Russian or English are expected on the following sub-topics:

·         History, publication forms, repertoire; editorial policy, reputation of specific emigrant periodicals;

·         The history of emigrant publishing houses (individuals, groups, collectives);

·         The press as a verbal space for self-reflective émigré political philosophy and historiography;

·         The role of the press in preserving national identity;  the image of Russia and Russian culture in the emigrant press;

·         Self-definition of the emigration in the emigrant press by representatives of the first wave (interferences between the first and the second waves);

·         The image of the emigration in the local (non-emigrant) press;

·         The image of the emigration in the Soviet press;

·         Émigrés’ activity in non-emigrant media;

·         Russian emigrants in movie-journals