International Conference | Radio Soundscapes in (Post)Colonial Settings | 7-8 July 2022
Thursday, 7 July
9.15 - Registration & Welcome
9.45 - Opening Lecture
The Colonial Provenance of Dutch International Broadcasting c. 1930-1950: Contestations and Continuities
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, University of Amsterdam
Chair: Sílvio Santos, University of Coimbra
11.00 - Coffee Break
11.30 - Radio as a Tool of Soft Power
National Broadcasters and Transnational Radio Audiences in Southern Africa, c. 1960- 1990
Peter Brooke, University of Oxford
From Communal Listeners to Interactive Users: The changing nature of the BBC World Service audiences in Africa
Abdullahi Tasiu, City University of London
De-sonified archival traces: monitoring Rádio Libertação
Rui Vilela, University of Aveiro
Chair: Catarina Valdigem, Catholic University of Portugal
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Promoting and Countering Colonialism on the Airwaves
Imagining the African Audience: colonial reactions to ‘hostile’ broadcasts in British East Africa
Alex J. White, University of Cambridge
British Colonial Influence on Early to Mid-century Canadian Radio
Anne F. MacLennan, York University
The American Indian Movement’s Radio Free Alcatraz (1969-71): Decolonizing the Airwaves one Broadcast at a Time
Amanda R Ruschak, University at Albany, SUNY
Warcasting and the Evolution of Radio Counterinsurgency Politics in Postwar Malaya
Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Ana Isabel Reis, University of Porto
16.00 – Coffee Break
16.30 – A Conversation on The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
Simon J. Potter, University of Bristol
Chair: Nelson Ribeiro, Catholic University of Portugal
19.30 – Conference Dinner
Friday, 8 July
9.15– Broadcasting,PowerandResistance
Media Development in a Context of “Stable Instability”: Power, Flow and Participation in Guinea-Bissau’s Radio System
Johanna Mack, Erich Brost Institut, TU-Dortmund
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance: Community Radio as a Cultural Tool to Engage on Health and Social Identities Among Marginalised Communities in Ghana Emmanuel Essel, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Revista Sonora: a Critical Voice on Cape Verdean Radio
Ana Isabel Reis, University of Porto
Chair: Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, University of Amsterdam
10.45 – Coffee Break
11.15 – Radio and the (Re)Creation of Culture Identities
Radio Narratives of Community-Making in Rural Colombia
Silvia Serrano, Duke University
Black Radio’s Reach
Babette Thomas, Yale University
Transnational Evangelical Radio and Indigenous Modernity in the Andes
Diego Mauricio Cortes, University of Pittsburgh Bradford
Chair: Peter Brooke, University of Oxford
12.45 – Roundtable
Broadcasting in the Portuguese Empire: Nationalism, Colonialism, Identity –
(Re)Thinking the Research Agenda
Participants: Nelson Ribeiro, Catholic University of Portugal; Silvio Santos, University of Coimbra; Ana Isabel Reis, University of Porto; Rogério Santos, Catholic University of Portugal; Catarina Valdigem, Catholic University of Portugal
13.30 – Farewell Lunch