Recent and upcoming events

Where I’ve been, where I’ll be…

2024

19-20 November, Women on the Air 2: Women’s voices matter. Gender roles and their articulations through radio voices. Talk: “Her voice, a radio voice: speaking of voices in the Dutch audiovisual archive”

7 June, Uhlenbeck Lecture, NIAS Fellows Association Day: “Listening with the Digital Archive: Voices and Silence, Music and Noise”

2023

14-16 June, Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI
Changing Streams, Channels and Currents, roundtable: “Locating Women’s Television Histories/Locating Archives”

2022

25 April-6 May visiting researcher at the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University

2021

26 November CDH Webinar ‘Automatic Speech Recognition of Radio; case study Eurovision Song Contest’

28-29 October Workshop Historical Traces of European Radio Archives, 1930-1960 University of Amsterdam, with a paper “European radio’s silenced witness. The European Broadcasting Union’s written archives”

[2019-2021 I was on leave with burnout and then, y’know, there was a pandemic. I probably did stuff, but who knows?]

 

2018

10-13 July  Radio Conference, Prato, Italy

28-29 June “Materialitäten” Jahrestagung des Studienkreises Rundfunk und Geschichte, TECHNOSEUM, Mannheim (DE)

18- 22 June Summer school in Transnational Radio History, Luxembourg 

16 “The Many lives of Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage” Farewell Symposium for Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw, Utrecht University

6-8 April Rewire Festival, with a keynote and panel on women and radio for New Emergences 15:45, Sunday 8 April (and yes, I’m excited to be at the same festival as Laurie Anderson…)

2017

 31 Aug – 1 September  Workshop “Inventing Global Broadcasting” Paper: “Mapping the Happy Station: Eddie Startz and the audio and visual performances of shortwave personality” 

6-7 July Workshop “Cross-currents: Gender and transnational broadcasting.” Paper (with Kristin Skoog) “Lessons from Lilian: Is transnational (media) history a gendered issue?”

17–19 May “Tracing entanglements in media history.” EMHIS conference, Lund University.  Paper “Translating the top 40: Charting the borders of pop music in 1960s Europe”

2016

5-8 July The Radio Conference Transnational Forum: Transnational Radio Encounters

18-20 February Conference Popular Music and identity politics: making, archiving, transmitting, and receiving radio Zürich, Switzerland

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.

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