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TRANSNATIONAL RADIO ENCOUNTERS CONFERENCE 2016 5–8 July 2016 Utrecht University & Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Hilversum JKH 2-3 13:00-15:00 Preconference Tue 5 July 0.13 Radio, refugees and migrants From 15.00 Registration WELCOME TO THE A 16:30-17:00 Welcome & introduction 17:00-18:00 Keynote Myria Georgiou RADIO CONFERENCE TRANSNATIONAL FORUM 2016! Communicating the city of difference: The right to connect and disconnect. 18:00-18:30 Coffee/tea The Department of Media and Culture Studies of the and institutional networks of expertise. Conference 18:30-19:30 Keynote Sean Street University of Utrecht, together with the Netherlands contributions explore how radio is used to build new Listening for an echo: The sound poetics of identity. Institute for Sound and Vision are delighted to welcome forms of local community and participation in diverse 19:30-22:00 Buffet/reception you to the 8th edition of the Radio Conference Trans- societies; they explore how radio aesthetics and modes Academiegebouw Transnational radio poetry with Seán Street national Forum: Transnational Radio Encounters. Radio, of storytelling develop and circulate in transnational as Michele Hilmes has noted, was born into an age of spheres; they also examine the challenges of digital radio JKH 1.10 1.15 1.16 1.17 nationalisms, and yet at the same time has always and and radio archiving and how these shape institutional 2-3 9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3: Panel 4: increasingly been implicated in transnational flows. In models or explore transnational communities of memory. Wed Borders & spaces Pioneering Community voices Networks 6 July I the fantasies of global communication that accompanied Framing the conference are considerations of radio’s 11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea radio’s arrival, in the banal transnationalism of old radio place within transnational media and archival ecologies, dials, in propaganda films and grand co-productions, and raising the questions of how radio studies can inform and II 11:30-13:00 Panel 5: Panel 6: Panel 7: Panel 8: Radio drama Decolonisation Migration Music in the sweeping global address of international broad- be informed by broader considerations of digitization, 13:00-14:30 Lunch + Bus ride to Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum casters, radio has envisioned border crossing. As receiving diaspora, globalization, and identity. technology, radio has layered the spaces of everyday life 14:30-16:30 Re-presenting radio: Exhibitions and archive initiatives H (DR, B&G, DRA, Dradio) and given both voices and listening ears to a range of We look forward to days filled with new insights, 16:30-17:00 trans-border communities on both local and global scale. new dialogues, and of course the same friendly setting Coffee/tea Institutional, technical and aesthetic models and practices characteristic of the Radio Studies conference and the 17:00-17:30 Presentation have also travelled over borders and through individual Radio Studies Community. Transnational Radio Encounters 17.30-19.00 Introduction and exploration RADIO.GARDEN transnational radio exhibition Hilversum Hilversum 18:00-19:00 Reception 19:00 Buses return to Utrecht The Radio Conference - A Transnational Forum JKH 2-3 9:30-11:00 Panel 9: Panel 10: Panel 11: Finding Panel 12: Thu Women Representations communities Public service The Radio Conference is a forum for radio scholars, Scientific Board: Alexander Badenoch July 7 III teachers and broadcasters, radio travellers from academia, Bruce Berryman 11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea radio industry, governmental media regulation and Golo Föllmer 0.13 11:30-12:30 Keynote Jo Tacchi radio activism from all parts of the world. It aims to Janey Gordon Radio and communicative ecologies: A transnational perspective cover all areas of contemporary radio research, while Peter Hoar 12:30-14:00 Lunch providing clear thematic streams for coherent discussions, Per Jauert IV 14:00-15:30 Panel 13: Panel 14: Panel 15: Panel 16: and while keeping the gathering at a size that allows Jacob Kreutzfeld Narratives National radio Citizenship Markets productive conversations and fruitful personal encounters. Kate Lacey 15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea Peter Lewis V 16:00-17:30 Panel 17: Panel 18: Panel 19: Panel 20: It has been organized biennially since 2001 – seven Mia Lindgren Podcasting Transnationality Minorities Traveling models conferences in locations all over the anglophone world, Jason Loviglio 17:30-18:00 Coffee/tea from England to the USA, Australia, Canada and New Anne MacLennan Zealand. This year for the first time it goes „continental“, Caroline Mitchell VI 18:00-19:30 Listening Session Listening Session Listening Session 1 2 3 in order to add more of a non-anglophone perspective. Matt Molgaard 20:00 This year also saw a three-year gap from 2013 to 2016 in Dinner A order to get out of synch with the biennial ECREA Radio Former locations: Brighton, UK (2001) Nocturne | Radio Art by Anna Friz Research Section Conference. Madison, USA (2003) Melbourne, AU (2005) D25 0.03 1.01 1.03 1.05 Lincoln, UK (2007) 10:00-11:30 Panel 21: Re- Panel 22: Panel 23: Creating Panel 24: Toronto, CA (2009) Fri VII imagining borders Amateurs communities New stories Auckland, NZ (2011) July 8 11:30-12:00 Luton, UK (2013) Brunch D13 12.00-14:00 Roundtable and discussion – Michele Hilmes, Mia Lindgren, Golo Föllmer, Kate Lacey, Caroline Mitchell 1 0.04 Locating radio studies in the new media environment Tue July 5 | 13:00-15:00 Tue July 5 | 17:00-18:00 | Utrecht University Tue July 5 | 18:30-19:30 | Utrecht University Plenaries Plenaries JKH Utrecht University | Janskerkhof 2-3 | 0.13 Academiegebouw | Domplein 29 Academiegebouw | Domplein 29 2-3 A A Preconference Keynote Keynote Plenaries Plenaries Radio, refugees and migrants: Communicating the city of difference: Listening for an echo: A Workshop The right to connect and disconnect The sound poetics of identity Myria Georgiou Seán Street This preconference is an invitation to academics and London School of Economics and Political Science Bournemouth University | Bournemouth | UK I practitioners to share experience and discuss the role of community radio in this area of growing importance. The LSE | London | UK discussion will begin with contributions from refugee Sound, poetry – kindred spirits. They touch a deep vein I broadcasters from several European countries including This talk explores mediated connectivity as a within us, addressing an existential loneliness as we ‚sit the Netherlands, and takes place as part of Transnational regulatory regime of multicultural urban life. Drawing in lighted rooms marooned by darkness‘. (Night Thoughts, Radio Encounters‘ individual project „Minority radio: on empirical research in North London, it examines David Gascoyne, BBC Third Programme, 1955). Using II social & cultural identities and Black and minority ethnic the ways in which diversity is managed through broadcast sound and poetry, this talk explores how some (BME) Radio“. different connections and disconnections via both of the best poets and radio producers have confronted II local and transnational media. The main question is this loneliness and isolation. A poet is a transmitter, but a Panel to include: whether intensified connectivity advances or hinders radio producer can be a poet in sound, and ideas require • Dan Cissokho, Station Manager of Peterborough diasporic minorities‘ representation and recognition in no passport to travel. Poetry is more than words on a page Community Radio, UK multicultural societies. – it is a way of making, transmitting and receiving, an • Larry. M. Macaulay, Founder/Editor in chief, idea. We listen for an echo, a distant sound or voice that Refugee Radio Network (Hamburg) may reflect us or at least speak to our predicament. Radio III • Anne Ostendorp Dr. Myria Georgiou teaches at the Dept of Media answers that longing, helping us in the process to know Producer, N1 Netherlands, Nijmegen and Communications, LSE. Her research focusses on ourselves. Poems work in the same way, undermining our III • Judith Purkarthofer migration, diaspora, and the city, especially in examining conscience, touching our hearts, coming from – and going President of the Community Media Forum for the ways in which media and communications shape to – the source of things. Europe (CMFE) narratives and experiences of belonging among mobile and diverse populations. She is the author of Diaspora, Professor Seán Street is a poet, a broadcaster and a identity and the media (Hampton Press, 2006) and Media IV The workshop is free and in English. and the city (Polity Press, 2013). writer of works that explore the philosophical nature of sound. The Poetry of Radio – The Colour of Sound Organization: (Routledge) was published in 2013, and was followed IV Peter Lewis & Caroline Mitchell by The Memory of Sound – Preserving the Sonic Past, recently published in paperback also by Routledge. In 2015 Rowman and Littlefield published an updated, extended and revised edition of his 2006 work, The Historical Dictionary of British Radio. Street has published V nine collections of poems, the latest of which, Camera Obscura (Rockingham Press, May 2016) examines his preoccupation with time, space and communication, V as did his anthology of radio poems, Radio Waves (Enitharmon Press). He is currently researching for a BBC Radio 4 documentary on H.G.Wells, and is writing a new book with the working title Sound Poetics – Interaction and Personal Identity, due for publication by Palgrave in 2017. VI He is Emeritus Professor at Bournemouth University. VI During the dinner and reception, Sean Street will read a selection of poems related to radio and transnational space. VII VII 2 3 Wed July 6 | 14:30-16:30 Wed July 6 | 17:00-17:30 Wed July 6 | 17:30-19:00 Plenaries Plenaries H Hilversum | Media Parkboulevard 1 H Hilversum | Media Parkboulevard 1 H Hilversum | Media Parkboulevard 1 Re-presenting radio: Presentation Introduction and exploration Plenaries Plenaries Exhibitions and archive initiatives Participants Transnational Radio Encounters RADIO.GARDEN & RADIO.GARDEN transnational radio exhibition As radio production in the present increasingly ,goes Denmarks Radio (DR) digital‘, so, too, does radio’s past.