Rethinking Our Communicative Pasts: Radical and Reparatory Perspectives
25-26 April 2024
Room 401 (4th floor)
(Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The Broadcast Centre Here East, Lesney Avenue, London, E20 3B)
Thursday 25 April (Teams LINK; https://bit.ly/3W182wq)
9:00 –9:30 Registration & Welcome
Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London), Anaïs Carlton-Parada (Loughborough University London), Nelson Costa Ribeiro (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa)
9:30 –11:30 Panel 1: Media and Empire: Pasts and Presents
Chair: Nelson Costa Ribeiro
Lee Grieveson (University College London): "The Past Keeps Becoming the Future"
Simon Potter (University of Bristol): "Building Empires on Air: (Re)writing Histories of British Public and Colonial Broadcasting"
Anjali DasSarma (University of Pennsylvania): "Narratives of White Normativity and the Political Economy of Slavery: Revisiting Publick Occurrences, The Boston News-Letter, and the Origin Story of America's Early Press"
Isadora de Ataide Fonseca (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): "Imperial Public Sphere: A Resilient Concept to Rethinking Our Communicative Past?"
Dominique Trudel (Audencia Business School): "Exploring New Territories in the History of Media and Communication Research: Robert Estivals and French SIC as Political Avant-Garde"
11:30 –12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 –13:00 Roundtable: Cultural Imperialism and Counter-Movements (NWICO)
Lars Diurlin (Stockholm University), ShinJoung Yeo (CUNY, Queens College), Sašo Slaček Brlek (University of Ljubljana)
Moderated by Thomas Tufte (Loughborough University London)
13:00 –14:00 Lunch
14:00 –15:00 Roundtable 2: Towards Radical Histories in Media and Communication
Omar Al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics), Philipp Seuferling (London School of Economics), Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
Moderated by Burçe Çelik
15:00 –15:30 Coffee break
15:30 –16:30 Seminar by Dan Schiller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Telecommunications and US Empire: A Brief History"
Introduction and Moderation by ShinJoung Yeo
17:00 –18:00+ Book Talk with Drinks (@ Future Space, Ground Floor)
Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Burçe Çelik, Nelson Costa Ribeiro
Moderated by Ana Cristina Suzina (Loughborough University London)
Friday 26 April (
https://bit.ly/43YU2F6)
9:30 –11:00 Panel 3: Memory and Time
Chair: Pandora Syperek (Loughborough University London)
Victoria Browne (Loughborough University): "Feminist Historiography and the Pasts and Presents of Abortion Activism"
Clara de Massol de Rebetz (Kings College): "Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human"
Kaya de Wolff (University of Frankfurt ) and Jephta U Nguherimo: "Our Problem is that we don't write papers": Co-authoring as an Approach to Decolonise the Scholarship Related to the Memory of the OvaHeroro and Nama Genocide"
Claudia Magallanes-Blanco (Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla): "Forget About the Media. Let's Focus on (Indigenous) Communication"
11:00 –11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 –13:00 Panel 4: Politics of Erasures and Counter-Archives
Chair: Anais Carlton-Parada (Loughborough University London)
Farangis Ghaderi (University of Exeter): "Erased Kurdish Women's Histories: In Search of Kurdish Women's Voices in Archives"
Asli Ozgen-Havekotte (University of Amsterdam): "(Un)Seen, (Un)Heard: Diasporic Audiovisual Heritage and Speculative Turn in Archival Studies"
Sahika Erkonan (University of Cambridge): "Embodiment and Counter-Memory in the Diaspora: The Case of the Armenian Genocide"
Afaf Jabiri (University of East London): "Epistemic Violence of Anti-Palestinianism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality of Feminist Knowledge"
13:00 –14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Panel 5: Rethinking Historical Actors and Representations
Chair: Burçe Çelik
Kristin Skoog (Bournemouth University): "(Re)searching Women in Broadcasting History"
Stephanie Seul (University of Bremen) "Writing Women into the Historical Narrative of War Reporting: Avis Waterman, "The Times" Correspondent on the Italian Front During the First World War"
Manuel Carvalho Coutinho (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa): "If (only) Archives Could Speak: Portugal's Censorship Records and Its Historical Implications"
Naomi Smith (Birkbeck College): "An Intersectional Analysis of National Television News Coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising"
Farbod Honarpisheh (Yale University): "Our Disciplinary Past: Zigzagging Our Ways in and out of History and Frame"
16:00 –16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 –17:30 Seminar By Martha Evans (University of Cape Town):