Blog: History

Keen to stay up to date with initiatives in the field of computational media history, the Impresso project is organizing a short series of conferences this spring, inviting colleagues to present their current research in order to gain inspiration, share ideas, and build bridges between our ongoing efforts. This series is the second season of Impresso Seminars: see the fall 2025 program.

Keen to stay up to date with initiatives in the field of computational media history, the Impresso project is organizing a short series of conferences this fall, inviting colleagues to present their current research in order to gain inspiration, share ideas, and build bridges between our ongoing efforts.

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the international conference organissed by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne, to be held on June 30 and July 1, 2026 on the theme ‘Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?’.

Deadline (Abstracts): May 31, 2025. See the call on the journal’s website.

We are launching a CFP for a special issue of TMG - Journal for Media History, under the direction of Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, François Vallotton, Martin Grandjean and Jesper Verhoef

How can “transmedia” history be put into practice from both theoretical and empirical perspectives? This was the question raised by the participants at the “Transmedia History” conference in Lausanne in January 2025. The abstracts of their papers are now available!

Julien Nguyễn Đăng, intern to the Impresso project in the summer 2018, prepared a feedback on his experience, reflecting on the challenges it poses for research and teaching.

Stepping in the NLP / History trading zone: a series of posts