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Continue reading →: the latest development in the global living room
Click here to see the latest development in the global living room One of the things I occasionally bang on about, following on from scholars such as David Morley, Paddy Scannell and Lynn Spigel, is the curious mobility of television’s domestic setting. In Berlin, they have now turned a whole stadium…
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Continue reading →: Two new publications
In the last two weeks, two new publications have come out – on two totally different subjects. “Translating objects, transnationalizing collections: Inventing Europe between museums and researchers” in Perla Innocenti (ed.) Migrating heritage: Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe, (Ashgate 2014) 39-52. Developed from a talk I gave in…
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Continue reading →: Catching up… the spoken word edition
For more than a year now, I have been listed as a cultural affairs producer for the podcast Things Not Seen: Conversations About Culture and Faith, created and hosted by the theologian Dr David Dault, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Sunday Evening Club (itself a piece of…
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Continue reading →: Catching up… the new publication edition
As I am slowly getting new research underway, I am also pleased to announce that the fruits of older labour are now also coming out. Europop… This month has seen the publication of a new article in a special issue of the European Review of History edited by Klaus Nathaus devoted to…
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Continue reading →: Catching up… the rentrée edition
It’s been a busy couple of months here at Alec central… wherever that might be these days! After a summer punctuated with conference visits (Television for Women Conference, Warwick, The Radio Conference, Uni Bedfordshire, ICHSTM, Manchester) I experienced for the first time the great French tradition, the rentrée: getting back to work…
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Continue reading →: Transnational Radio Encounters
I am delighted to announce that as of September 1, 2013 I am now officially once more connected to Utrecht University, as a partner in an international consortium that has been awarded funding by HERA for a three-year, Eur 1m, collaborative research project, Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE) submitted under the support and guidance of Professor…
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Continue reading →: Installé à Paris
It is verging on old news, but as of 1 March 2013, I am employed at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne as postdoc and scientific secretary on the Laboratoire d’ Excellence (LABEX) “Ecrire one nouvelle histoire de l’Europe” (Writing a new history of Europe – EHNE). My job involves the research…
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Continue reading →: The Women’s Radio in Europe Network (WREN)
On October 4-5, at the Tensions of Europe meeting in Copenhagen, Kristin Skoog and I, together with five other scholars, were pleased to launch a new Tensions of Europe initiative: the Women’s Radio in Europe Network (WREN). Subtitled ‘Sounding Out the Boundaries’, the new network takes the intersection of gender and radio as a…
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Continue reading →: Inventing Europe online – and on tour!
Showing the new, *live* Inventing Europe in Tampere Inventing Europe is now online, live at www.inventingeurope.eu. The online exhibition, inspired by the forthcoming Making Europe book series, explores a new kind of European history by following the paths of technology from the dawn of railways and telegraphs to the present day.…
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Continue reading →: What’s new?
Say! See! Peep! There is a paradox, of course: the more that happens, the less time there is to write about it. I am beginning to think I should follow William Uricchio’s example and state up front that this is not a blog. That would be one way to avoid anyone’s frustration…
Alec
I’m a media historian, with special interests in broadcasting, transnational processes and cultures, archives, women’s history and a few other things. I am Assistant Professor for Media and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I am also a migrant, a dad, a Gen-Xer, and a widower. Sometimes I write about those things, too.
Alec Badenoch 