[ecrea] Call for Papers The Radio Conference 2016: Transnational Radio Encounters

Call for Papers

The Radio Conference 2016: Transnational Radio Encounters
Utrecht University, 5-8 July 2016

Continuing the series of Transnational Radio Forums*, the Department of 
Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University, in collaboration with 
the HERA Collaborative Research project Transnational Radio Encounters 
(transnationalradio.org), and an international committee in association 
with the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network is pleased to host the 2016 
edition of the Transnational Forum at Utrecht, 5-8 July 2016.  This year 
we would like to invite participants to mobilize the ‘transnational’ in 
the forum’s name.  As engineers, regulators, listeners – and indeed 
scholars – have long pointed out, radio waves are not stopped by 
national borders.  But also in ostensibly national or local settings, 
radio is intricately entangled in transnational processes of production 
and programming, as well as transnational cultures of listening and 
identity formation.  We would like to extend a special invitation for 
papers that explore:
•	the way radio shapes TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERES, in support or 
subversion of existing infrastructures and media ecologies;
•	transnational perspectives on RADIO AESTHETICS and IDENTITIES; and
•	ways in which new forms of DIGITAL RADIO AND ARCHIVES can help to 
shape or resurrect transnational COMMUNITIES OF MEMORY.
*Luton (2013), Auckland (2011), Toronto (2009), Lincoln (2007), 
Melbourne (2005), Madison (2003), Brighton (2001)
Paper and session topics can include, but are by no means limited to:

•	Transborder radio reception (diasporic listening, shortwave/DXing, 
Webradio listening communities)
•	Radio Aesthetics (Methodologies of aesthetic radio analysis, Practices 
in radio production, Comparative/intercultural approaches, Aesthetics of 
market, authority & the social, ...)
•	Public Service media in transnational perspective (digitization & 
convergence in transnational perspective; cross-border disruptions
•	New and old forms of transmitting across borders (broad, narrow and 
sublocal casting in the new borderless mediascapes)
•	New and old forms of international radio services, and the role of 
radio in international media platforms
•	Transnational aspects and intersectionality of community radio 
(gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.
•	Transnational uses of archive resources (archival broadcasting, 
incorporation of radio in memory platforms and exhibitions, digital 
archives in transnational research)
•	Transnational radio markets and economic models
•	Technological transformations of radio and transnational infrastructures
•	Storytelling (national & transnational schools, international 
adaptation and transmedia stories)
•	Teaching radio & radio research in transnational communities

Proposals for panels that combine individual/national perspectives are 
also welcome, as are papers exploring the current state of the art in 
radio research.

Guidelines:
All proposals should include name and affiliation, as well as *brief* 
(50-100 word) bio, of all speakers.

Proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (20 minutes) should be 250 words in length

Proposals for PRE-COMPOSED PANELS (90-minutes) should include a 200-word 
abstract explaining the rationale of the panel as a whole as well as 
250-word abstracts of the individual presentations

Besides classic paper presentations and panels, we would like to invite 
proposals for a limited number of LISTENING SESSIONS (also roughly 90 
minutes) in which listening and discussion are central.  While the 
precise formats can vary, listening panels should be primarily devoted 
to presenting whole or excerpted broadcasts, or indeed radio 
experiments, and be oriented toward group discussion and/or interaction. 
 The theme of transnational radio encounters should encourage sessions 
that explore the ways in which radio sound crosses national barriers, 
developing methodologies for taking up challenges of transnational 
and/or collaborative research, or conducting reception research among a 
group of diverse experts.  Proposals for listening sessions should be 
250-350 words in length and outline the material to be presented, the 
format of the session and the themes or questions to be explored through 
listening.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, November 15, 2015.
Please make submissions digitally to (conference2016 /at/ transnationalradio.org)
Inquiries may be sent to Alec Badenoch: (a.w.badenoch /at/ uu.nl)
Watch for updated conference information at 
transnationalradio.org/conference

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