Thursday 24 November: Entangled Histories of Public Service Broadcasting
12.15 CET Lunch / coffee (bring your own) (Wonder)
Wonder chat room opens for pre-meet social with light lunch, coffee and small talk (the room will remain open throughout the afternoon)
12.45 CET Opening remarks: Kristin Skoog and Jamie Medhurst (Zoom)
13.00 CET Panel 1: Reinventions/redefinitions in the 1970s (Zoom) Chair: Hans-Ulrich Wagner
Mari Pajala, University of Turku – Nordicness as quality? Debating Nordvision co-operation at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s
Allan Burnett, Lund University – Comfort zones and battle zones: to what extent did The World at War challenge its 1970s British and international audiences?
Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University – Democratising the Airwaves: the Annan Committee and broadcasting in the 1970s
14.00 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
14.30 CET Panel 2: Connecting histories (Zoom) Chair: Marie Cronqvist
Ulrika Holgersson, Lund university – Journalistic Practices in Media Events Before Broadcasting: The Public Funeral of King Oscar II in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
Kristin Skoog, Bournemouth University – Women and public service broadcasting/ ‘public service’ programming
Hugh Chignell, Bournemouth University – Entangled media history and the literary turn
15.30 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
16.00 CET Contribution from special guest (Zoom)
Emeritus Professor and Media Historian, David Hendy, University of Sussex
Chair: Jamie Medhurst
17.00 CET ‘DIY’ Reception, BYOC (bring your own concoction) (Wonder)
Join our online reception for further socialising and chat
Friday 25 November: EMHIS Ongoing Research & News
09.30 CET Coffee morning (bring your own cup)
Wonder Wonder chat room opens for pre-meet social with light lunch, coffee and small talk (the room will remain open throughout the afternoon)
10.00 CET Welcome and news from the EMHIS steering committee (Zoom) Chair: Marie Cronqvist
10.30 CET New EMHIS members – panel 1 (Zoom) Chair: Kristin Skoog
(Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens and Clare Church – brief ‘re-introductions’)
Maximilian Brockhaus, University of Vienna – School television: An example for National and European efforts in media education
Oscar Winberg, Åbo Akademi University – Lillan for President: Television, Politics, and the 1994 Finnish Presidential Election
11. 15 CET Coffee break (Wonder)
11.45 CET New EMHIS members – panel 2 (Zoom) Chair: Jamie Medhurst
Sian Nicholas, Aberystwyth University – Navigating the entangled histories of WW2 media
Emil Eiby Seidenfaden, University of Copenhagen – War-Born Journalism: Reflections of Scandinavian Foreign Affairs Journalists, 1945-1948
Rosanna Farbøl, Lund University – Media Preparedness and Psychological Defence in Postwar Sweden and Denmark
12.30 CET Lunch break (Wonder)
Wonder chat room available for continued discussion of the brief presentations and small-talk over lunch.
13.30 CET EMHIS members’ research updates (Zoom)
Chair: Kristin Skoog
Ina Ėmužienė, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Department of Documentary Heritage research – Early American-Lithuanian radio broadcasting
Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Leibniz Institute for Media Research Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg – What are (digitised) radio and TV magazines for?
14. 10 CET Comfort break
14.30 CET EMHIS members research updates continued… (Zoom)
Immo Hagemann, Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens, and Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Leibniz Institute for Media Research Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg – The ‘value’ of Germany’s national news agency ‘dpa’
Marie Cronqvist, Christine Davidsson Sandal, and Eskil Vesterlund, Lund University – Updates from the Media History Section at Lund University – presentation of Media History Lab project and edited volume
15.20 CET Concluding remarks (Zoom)
15.30 CET Post-forum ‘after work’, BYOC (bring your own concoction) Wonder
Join our online ‘after work’ for further socialising and chat