Notes from the Field

JMPS will keep readers apprised of recent or future developments in periodical studies that might interest them. Two thousand and nine has seen a number of significant events for scholars of modern periodical studies. The Modernist Journals Project web site has undergone several recent improvements, including a new "Search Help" page and advanced searching options on the site that should make it even more useful to scholars and teachers. This summer saw the second conference of Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker's Modernist Magazine Project. The conference—Modernism, Cultural Exchange, and Transnationality, held at the University of Sussex—was organized by Peter Brooker and Christian Weikop, and featured twenty-six panels of scholars from several countries. The Modernist Studies Association 2009 conference in Montreal included four panels specifically dedicated to periodical studies. Moreover, future periodical studies conferences are in preparation, including the third conference organized by the Paris III-based INTERMAG group (Inventaire, numérisation, théorie, esthétique des revues modernistes et d'avant-garde). The Université de Haute Alsace (Mulhouse, France) will host the bilingual (French and English) conference "Scientific Poetics in the European Modernist and Avant-Garde Magazines from 1900 to 1940," scheduled for June 16-18, 2011. For more information, please contact the conference coordinators, Tania Collani (tania.collani@uha.fr) and Noëlle Cuny (noelle.cuny@uha.fr). The research group, led by Céline Mansanti and Benoît Tadié, collaborates to produce collections on modern periodicals as well, beginning with Benoît Tadié (ed.), Revues Modernistes Anglo-Américains: Lieux d'Échanges, Lieux d'Exil (Paris: Editions Ent'revues, 2006). Please inform the JMPS editors if you would like us to note or announce periodical studies events past or future. We hope you enjoy this inaugural issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies and will send us your work for future issues.