Rethinking Our Communicative Pasts: Reparatory and Radical Perspectives
Burçe Çelik and Anaïs Carlton-Parada are organising a two-day in person workshop on marginalised, forgotten or erased communicative histories and memories on 25 and 26 April. The workshop will be live streamed on both days.
Thursday 25 April
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
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 (Loughborough University London)
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
Friday 26 April
9:30 –11:00 Panel 3: Memory and Time
- 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
14:00-15:30 Panel 5: Rethinking Historical Actors and Representations
- 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”
15:30 –16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 –17:00 Seminar By Martha Evans (University of Cape Town):
- “ ‘Covering Our Tracks’: Archival Research on Liberation Movement Communication in South Africa” Introduction and Moderation by Cuthbeth Tagwieri (Loughborough University London)