[ecrea] Broadcasting in the 1950s Conference

*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>