Location
University of York
Workshop – Knowing your Enemy (and your Friends): Cultures of Radio Monitoring and Surveillance
15-16 September 2016, University of York
An event organised by the Leverhulme Trust International Network – Connecting the Wireless World: Writing Global Radio History
Programme
Thursday 15th September
15:30 - 17:00 Panel 1 Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, University of Amsterdam – Exceptional circumstances or business as usual? The monitoring service of the Dutch Government in exile during the Second World War
A. Ross Johnson, Woodrow Wilson Center and Hoover Institute - Understanding the Target: RFE/RL Audience Research, Monitoring, and Personal Communication
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote Jean Seaton, University of Westminster - BBC Monitoring: listening to the world and hearing what it meant
Friday 16th September
9.30 – 11:00 Panel 2 Friederike Kind-Kovacs, University of Regensberg - The dangers of listening: surveillance of ‘free’ radio in the Soviet bloc
Linda Risso, Institute of Historical Research, London - The role of radio and Ukrainian/Russia dialogue in the 20th and 21st centuries
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Panel 3 Kay Chadwick, University of Liverpool - Radio monitoring and propaganda in wartime France
Morgan Corriou, Paris 8 University - Public space and radio surveillance in colonial Tunisia
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 4 Matt Armstrong, MountainRunner.us - What is New is Old, Again: Propaganda, Censorship and Public Opinion
Dr Alban Webb, University of Sussex - The Sound of Revolution: BBC Monitoring Service and the Hungarian uprising, 1956
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable – Radio, Propaganda, Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy David Clayton (University of York); Simon Potter (University of Bristol); Nelson Ribeiro (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon); Rebecca Scales (Rochester Institute of Technology, New York); Andrea Stanton (University of Denver, Colorado)
There is no charge for this event but places are limited and booking is essential. Please contact Laura Lanceley at wireless-world-project@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
Event website – http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/global-radio-history/events/2016/knowing-your-enemy-and-your-friends.html