[ecrea] VIEW CFP: Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe

 Call for Papers: Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe


   VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture Vol. 3,
   Issue 05.


   Deadline for abstracts: February 1st, 2014.
   Deadline for full papers: 15 March, 2014.

*While recent comparative and transnational approaches in the field of 
European television history have demonstrated the need for 
(post)socialist television histories in Europe, there is currently 
limited scholarship dedicated to this geopolitical area of television in 
Europe. This area of study has mostly been relegated to the margins of 
other disciplines and remained isolated by national languages 
inaccessible to non-native scholars.*

The forthcoming issue of VIEW Journal of European Television History and 
Culture is dedicated to the theme Television Histories in 
(Post)Socialist Europe. It aims to open up discussions of 
(post)socialist television in Europe beyond political histories of the 
nation-state, discourses of Cold War isolation and East-West antagonism. 
The very broad questions that motivate these aims are:

   * Which empirical case studies help us understand (post)socialist
     television histories beyond stories of political control?
   * Which primary sources allow us access to television histories that
     fall outside the mainstream histories of the socialist state?
   * What methods do we need in order to decentralize the state in the
     production of (post)socialist television histories and analyze
     television histories that have resisted, subverted or negotiated
     the politics of communist regimes?
   * How can we theorize (post)socialist television as an object of
     study that revisits the East versus West dichotomies that have
     been at the centre of television history in Europe
   * How do (post)socialist television histories help us revisit the
     Cold War geography of Europe?
   * How can we understand the shifting place of (post)socialist
     television within broader societal processes of communication?

VIEW welcomes contributions in the form of short articles (2000-4500 
words), video and audio essays that take these broad questions on board 
and deal specifically with topics such as:

   * empirical case studies that help us understand (post)socialist
     television histories beyond stories of political control;
   * video and audio essays exploring television archival collections
     in Eastern Europe;
   * video and audio essays presenting primary sources (e.g. oral
     interviews, audio-visual and written material) of television in
     former socialist countries;
   * transnational cultures of (post)socialist television in Europe,
     namely: shared cultures of television production and professions,
     shared techno-political cultures of television and shared viewing
     cultures;
   * memories of socialist television and nostalgia;
   * popular television programmes during and since socialism.

This issue is guest edited by the European (Post)Socialist Television 
History Network in collaboration with the following guest editorial team:

   * Kirsten Bönker (Bielefeld University, DE)
   * Sven Grampp (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
   * Ferenc Hammer (ELTE University, HU)
   * Anikó Imre (University of Southern California, USA)
   * Lars Lundgren (Södertörn Univerity, SE)
   * Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University, UK)
   * Dana Mustata (University of Groningen, NL)
   * Julia Obertreis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
     Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
   * Irena Reifová (Charles University, CZ)


     Submission info

   * Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of
     expertise and interests in television broadcasting, from
     researchers to television professionals, to archivists and
     preservationists.
   * Contributions can be in the form of conventional articles,
     illustrated commentaries or photo-essays.
   * Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are *due on February 1st, 2014*.
     Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal,
     Dana Mustata <mailto:(journal /at/ euscreen.eu)>.


VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in 
collaboration with Utrecht University, University of Luxembourg and 
Royal Holloway University of London. It is supported by the EUscreenXL 
project, the European Television History Network and the Netherlands 
Organization for Scientific Research.