Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-second International Conference on Publishing Studies

  • Traveling Concepts: Publishing Systems and the Transfer and Translation of Ideas
  • 26-28 June 2024
  • Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy + Online

Local Conference Chair

Dr. Emilia Di Rocco

Dr. Emilia Di Rocco

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

2024 Plenary Speakers

The Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-second International Conference on Publishing Studies featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Massimo Fusillo

Massimo Fusillo

Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; President of the Italian Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Italy

"Melodrama as Excess of Passions: Negative Empathy, Catharsis, Sublime"


Mieke Bal

Mieke Bal

Professor in Literary Theory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"It's About Time!"


Ernst van Alphen

Ernst van Alphen

Professor of Literary Studies and Cultural Analysis, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, The Netherlands

"The Temporality of Cultural Analysis"

Svetlana Maliavina

Svetlana Maliavina

Profesora, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

"Viajes reales e imaginarios: España y Rusia, una fascinación a distancia" (In Spanish)

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2024 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Mei Zhang

Mei Zhang

Simmons University, USA

(In-Person)

Jevgenija Sivoronova

Jevgenija Sivoronova

Daugavpils University, Latvia

(In-Person)

Nicholas Grosso

Nicholas Grosso

Oxford Brookes, USA

(Online Only)

Conference Partner