Published on Monday, March 03, 2025
Abstract
Cette journée d’étude vise à analyser la presse polonaise allophone en France depuis le XIXe siècle et s’inscrit dans l’activité du réseau Transfopress.
Announcement
Argument
Since the beginning of the 19th century, the history of Poland has been marked by several waves of emigration. After the first political and intellectual Great Emigration of 1831, waves of economic, artistic, political and, more recently, educational emigration followed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, France and Great Britain were a preferred destination. On the banks of the Seine, the emigrants mainly had journalistic activities, but it was in the Avignon dépôt that the first newspaper was born in 1832. The main objective of this press was to serve the Polish nation. Journalistic activity, as well as the development of the press intended for the Polish diaspora in Europe - written in Polish -, are part of the tradition of this diaspora. These newspapers in the "service of the people", also providing information and entertainment, involve the participation of several actors and intervention in different areas.
Several venues can be explored during this conference. Since a newspaper is produced for a specific readership, questioning this readership – here the Poles of the diaspora – allows us to better understand the place of reading and writing in a context of emigration. Questioning this written struggle by analyzing it, both locally and transnationally, enables us to shed light on the extent of the Polish community exiled in Europe. Newspaper merchants and other sellers, as well as printers and publishers of this press, are some of the hidden, even forgotten, actors in this world of the foreign-language press. The various correspondents of this press could also be questioned, in order to better understand the place of journalistic writing in exile. The issues related to the distribution and promotion imposed on the written word, particularly in a language that is not the national language, constitute essential elements for understanding its development. By analyzing the content of the newspapers of the Polish diaspora, the daily life and concerns of emigrants from different periods can be better understood. Informative, political and then entertaining content reflects the needs and concerns of the exiles. The research devoted to the allophone Polish press is in line with studies of the micro-history of Polish emigration.
Submission guidelines
Send your proposals to krystian.klekot.pro@gmail.com.
before 31 may 2025
They must be in French or English – the languages of the study day.
The publication of the conference proceedings is planned for the year 2027 – your articles must be submitted during the year 2026.
A book review panel will also be offered : you can send proposals for books to be presented in this panel – send abstracts (200 words and bio/biblio ½ page).
Provisional calendar
- February 2025 : appel à contributions /call for papers
- 31 (May) 2025 : clôture de l’appel à contributions- Date limite pour l’envoi des abstracts (200 mots et bio/biblio une ½ page)
- 02 july 2025 : réponses
- 04 december2025 : journée d’études à la Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris
The publication possibility would be confirmed later to the participants.
Comité d’organisation
- Krystian Klekot, Transfopress
Comité scientifique
- Diana Cooper-Richet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris Saclay/ CHCSC)
- Katarzyna Seroka (Université de Varsovie)
- Iwona H. Pugacewicz (Centre de Civilisation polonaise de Paris/Université de Varsovie)
- Kinga Siatkowska Callebat (Sorbonne Université)
- Maria Stephanou (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
- María José Ruiz Acosta (Universidad de Sevilla)
Bibliographie
Cooper-Richet, Diana, « La librairie étrangère à Paris au XIXe siècle. », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 126-127, Paris, Seuil, 1999, p. 60-69.
Gocel, Ludwik, Rapacka, Louise, « Les débuts de la presse de la grande émigration polonaise en France et son caractère clandestin (1832-1833) », in Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, t. 15, n° 2, Paris, 1968, pp. 304-320.
Kacprzak, Marta M., « Wokół periodyku ‘Babin na obcej ziemi’ (1832). Polska kultura dawna w czasopiśmie Wielkiej Emigracji », [In.] Archiwum Emigracji, n° 29, Toruń, 2021-2022, pp. 225-256.
Klekot, Krystian, « The polish press in france during the july monarchy (1830-1848) » Revista internacional de Historia de la Comunicación, Seville, 2024, 23, pp. 49-65.
Klekot, Krystian, « La presse polonaise dans les dépôts (1831-1834). Une entrevue de courte carrière des éphémérides en province », Microhistoires. La vie quotidienne des émigrés polonais en France au XIXème siècle, Musée national de Kielce, Kielce, 2024, pp. 13-38.
Kolasa, Władysław Marek, « Prasa Wielkiej Emigracji (1832-1870) w polskim prasoznawstwie », [In :] Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, t. 56/n° 3 (215), Cracovie, 2013, pp. 389-400.
Kłossowski, Andrzej « Historia Księgarni Polskiej w Paryżu przez jej współwłaściciela Eustachego Januszkiewicza spisana », Roczniki Biblioteczne, vol. 10, Wrocław, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 1966.
Rapacka, Louise, « Liste alphabétique des périodiques clandestins publiés par l’émigration polonaise en France (1832-1833) avec leur côté à la Bibliothèque nationale et à la bibliothèque polonaise de Paris », Revue des études slaves, t. 48, fascicule 1-4, 1969, pp. 59-71.
Rebolledo-Dhuin, Viera, « Les libraires parisiens au XIXe siècle. Mobilités sociales et spatiales », Ethnologie Française, vol. 47, 2017, p. 59-74.
Rebolledo-Dhuin, Viera, « L’espace parisien des libraires sous la monarchie de Juillet : des solidarités de métier ? », Revue d’Histoire du XIXème siècle, n° 39, 2009, pp. 37-57.
Seroka, Katarzyna, Biblioteka Polska w Paryżu (1838-1871), Studium bibliologiczne, Cogito, Warszawa, 2017.
Sorel, Patricia, Petite histoire de la librairie française, Editions La Fabrique, Paris, 2021.
Straszewska, Maria, Życie literackie Wielkiej Emigracji we Francji 1831-1840, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa, 1970.
Zakorzewki, Jan, « Czasopiśmiennictwo polski na emigracyi : dokończenie », in. Przegląd Historyczny, n° 4/3, Varsovie, 1907, pp. 336-348.
Żaliński, Henryk, « Początki czasopiśmiennictwa Towarzystwa Demokratycznego Polskiego (1832-1834) », [In :] Rocznik Historii Czasopiśmiennictwa Polskiego, n° 7/1, 1968, pp. 25-40.
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Society > Geography > Migration, immigration, minorities
- Mind and language > Thought > Intellectual history
- Mind and language > Information > History and sociology of the book
- Mind and language > Information > History and sociology of the press
- Periods > Modern
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Mind and language > Information > History and sociology of the media
Places
- Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris - 6 quaid'Orléans
Paris, France (75)
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Saturday, May 31, 2025
Keywords
- presse polonaise, journaux, émigration polonaise, polonais, histoire, presse
Information source
- KRYSTIAN KLEKOT
courriel : krystian [dot] klekot [dot] pro [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« La presse polonaise allophone en Europe : un enjeu (trans)national ? », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Monday, March 03, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13ep1

