From May 5 to 7 2022, the first international conference "The long life of printed ephemeral literature" will take place in Geneva.

Geneva, an important city for the history of European printing, holds several collections of French and English printed sheets, Spanish pliegos de cordel and Brazilian prints. The aim of this conference is to make known the richness of these collections, to discuss the research currently being carried out in Western Europe and to consider this production from a transnational perspective with a broad chronological scale.

Thus, the areas of research that have been chosen for this international and interdisciplinary meeting - in the image of its object of study - are the following: 1) "Making a narrative out of an event: inform, entertain, lecture"; 2) "The printed sheet and its boundaries: international circulation and cultural particularities"; 3) "Topicality of the research". A detailed description of these three areas of research is available in the Call for papers section.

The preliminary program of the three days is available in the Program section. It will be regularly updated.