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[ecrea] Broadcasting in the 1950s Conference

Sat Jun 04 16:37:23 GMT 2011


*Broadcasting in the 1950s Conference*

*Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK, 20-22 July 2011*

Speakers include Michele Hilmes (keynote speaker), Jason Jacobs, Kate Lacey, Tom O'Malley, Ralph Negrine, Sian Nicholas and Michael Tracey. In addition to a full set of papers and panels, there will be an opportunity to see some lost British television drama discovered at the US Library of Congress.

The Conference is being organised as part of the AHRC-funded research network, 'British Quality, American Chaos? Trans-national discourses and interactions in the history of British and North American broadcasting c.1922-1962'.

A full list of panels are detailed below and the online booking form can be found at: http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/

We hope to see you there.


 *Broadcasting practice and culture in the 1950s*

*Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University)*
BBC Home Service /At Home and Abroad/ and the 1956 Suez Crisis <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#chignell>

*Darrell M. Newton (Salisbury University)**
*Race, immigration and reasoning: Britain and America's /Town Meeting of the Air /(1955) <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#newton>

*Ieuan Franklin (University of Portsmouth) and Paul Long ( University of Central England)** *Were we the BBC? Broadcast practice and culture in the BBC regions in the 1950s <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#franklin>

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 *Aesthetic practices and styles*

*Shawn VanCour (University of South Carolina)**
*Sounding out post-war American TV: the emergence of US television's sonic repertoire 1945-1955 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#vancour>

*Richard Hollingum (University of Northampton)**
*Between two worlds: Val Gielgud, BBC Drama (Sound) and experimentalism <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#hollingum>

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 *Broadcasting, culture and critical practice*

*Amanda Wrigley (University of Westminster)**
*The mighty heritage ... is meant for the good of all: BBC radio and cultural education in the long 1950s <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#wrigley>

*Heiner Stahl (Universität Erfurt)**
*Renegotiating citizenship by sound: educating audiences in 1950s broadcasting in Germany and the politics of music <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#stahl>

*Melanie Selfe (University of Glasgow)**
*Quality, national authenticity and the evolution of the BBC's policy on film criticism <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#selfe>

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 *Class, gender and identity*

*Kristin Skoog (Bournemouth University)**
*Between Art and Life: /Mrs. Dale's Diary/, Class and British Post-war Change <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#skoog>

*Mary Irwin (University of Warwick)**
*Designed for women: BBC television programmes for women 1947-55 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#irwin>

*Sean Nixon (University of Essex)**
*A trans-atlantic Mrs Consumer? Television advertising, domesticity and the housewife 1955-69 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#nixon>

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 *Broadcasters and broadcasting*

*Simon J. Potter (National University of Ireland)**
*Diasporic Britons at the BBC in the long 1950s <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#potter>

*Kristin Skoog (Bournemouth University ) and Alexander Badenoch (Utrecht University)** *Networking women: the International Association of Women in Radio and Television <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#badenoch>

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 *Transatlantic interactions*

*Jean K. Chalaby (City University)**
*At its origins: the nascent TV format trade 1949-1962 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#chalaby>

*Jennifer Clark (Fordham University)**
*Transatlantic transmissions: royal events and American television <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#clark>

*Ralph Negrine (University of Sheffield)**
*Americanization in the 1950s and 1960s? Party election broadcasts in the USA and UK <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#negrine>

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 *Anglo-American influences beyond the transatlantic sphere*

*James R. Vaughan (Aberystwyth University)**
*Western voices, Arab listeners: the BBC and the Voice of America in the Middle East 1945-1957 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#vaughan>

*Stephanie Hanson (University of Wollongong)**
*When will the country get TV? This year, next year, sometime....: the historical cultural impact of poor access to television services in rural Australia <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#hanson>

*Bohyeong Kim (University of Massachusetts -- Amherst)**
*Media production and gender discourse in the post-Korean War radio serial dramas 1956-1960 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#kim>

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 *Science broadcasting*

*Tim Boon (The Science Museum, London)**
*/The Restless Sphere/, Outside Broadcast and the invention of science television <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#boon>

*Allan Jones (Open University)**
*Good fences make good neighbours: maintaining a wall between science and broadcasting in the 1950s <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#jones>

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 *Reflections on the role of broadcasting in the 1950s*

*Kate Lacey (University of Sussex)**
*From radio listening to television watching in the 1950s: reflections on a blindspot in media history <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#lacey>

*Jamie Medhurst (Aberystwyth University)**
*The Beveridge Report in perspective

*Sian Nicholas (Aberystwyth University)**
*Now the war is over: negotiating the BBC's wartime legacy in post-war Britain

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 *Contemporary reflections on the role of broadcasting in the 1950s*

*Tom O'Malley (Aberystwyth University)**
*Broadcasting and the New Left in the 1950s <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#o%27malley>

*Michael Tracey (University of Colorado)**
*Jacob's Ladder: reimagining the BBC 1952-1959 <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#tracey>

*Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland)**
*The History of BBC Worldwide <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#jacobs>

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 *Special evening presentation*

*Lisa Kerrigan (BFI)**
*A special relationship: lost British television drama at the Library of Congress <http://broadcasthistory.org.uk/events/broadcasting-in-the-1950s/abstracts/#kerrigan>



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