9–10 January 2020 • Royal Asiatic Society, London
Two day international conference: 9–10 January 2020 • Royal Asiatic Society, London
More details, conference programme and abstracts available here.
Conference convener Dr Vaibhav Singh, University of Reading
Newspapers have played a key role in shaping the public sphere, contesting power, disseminating and challenging ideologies – making and breaking not only the news but also individual fortunes, collective consciousness, and contemporary prejudices. Their history is particularly effective in combining questions of language, labour, and infrastructure, testing and pushing the boundaries not only of available technologies but also of regulatory regimes dictating the rights and liberties of the press. This conference aims to bring together fresh research perspectives on newspapers and periodicals in the many languages and scripts of Asia, and it examines the processes of making/unmaking involved in journalistic domains across Asian contexts.