[ecrea] One-day workshop ‘Media, Memory, History: New directions’ at the Centre for Research in Communication & Culture, Loughborough University

Please find below details of the one-day workshop ‘Media, Memory, 
History: New directions’ to be held at the Centre for Research in 
Communication & Culture at Loughborough University. Confirmed speakers 
include Michael Schudson, Julia Sonnevend, Katharina Niemeyer, Jérôme 
Bourdon, Amy Holdsworth and Kirsten Bönker. We would be delighted to 
welcome interested colleagues to join us for the day.

Please email Thoralf Klein (T.E.Klein /at/ lboro.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(T.E.Klein /at/ lboro.ac.uk)> if you plan to attend.

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*Media, Memory, History: New directions*

16 September 2016

Loughborough, West Park Teaching Hub WPT 006

Convenors: Emily Keightley, Thoralf Klein, Sabina Mihelj

Although issues of memory and history are intrinsically linked, debates 
about mediated memory and media history often evolve in separate ways, 
take place in distinct conference circles, and are disseminated through 
separate publications outlets. This one-day workshop brings together 
media historians and media and memory scholars of different disciplinary 
backgrounds, and seeks to stimulate a cross-disciplinary discussion 
about the shared challenges and new directions in researching media, 
history and memory. The following are some of the issues and questions 
that could be addressed at the workshop:

·What are the main challenges and shared concerns of media history and 
media and memory studies? What can media historians and memory studies 
scholars learn from one another?

·Can vernacular memories of media use offer a useful tool for 
researching media history? On the other hand, how can media history 
contribute to a better understanding of the mediation of vernacular memory?

·How is the transnational / transcultural circulation of memories 
related to the transnational / transcultural aspects of media history? 
Is the transnationalization / transculturation of memory a recent 
phenomenon, arising from the growing transnationalisation, 
transculturation and globalization of media industry, or is there reason 
to argue that both media industries and mediated memories have always 
been in some ways transnational?

Programme:

9:30 /Welcome/

                  Emily Keightley, Thoralf Klein and Sabina Mihelj

9:45 /Stories Without Borders: The Making of a Global Iconic Event/

//Julia Sonnevend (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

10:30 /Coffee break/

11:00/     Oral History Interviews on Media Use: Chances and Challenges/

Kirsten Bönker (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)

11:45 /Memories of what? On genre and media memory/

//Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv University and Ina SUP, Paris)

12:30 /Lunch break/ //

14:00 /Children’s media, history and memory: intergenerational and 
material encounters at
the Story of Children’s Television exhibition/

//Amy Holdsworth (University of Glasgow)//

14:45 /Newtonian Cultural Memory: Between Macro-Chaos and Micro-Collapse///

//Michael Schudson (Columbia University)

15:30     Coffee break

16:00 /Designating the Golden Age: media and nostalgias of (g)old times 
and spaces/

//Katharina Niemeyer (Université Paris 2)

16:45 /Concluding discussion/

17:15 /End of workshop/

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Dr Emily Keightley
Reader in Media and Memory Studies
Centre for Research in Communication and Culture

Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
(E.Keightley /at/ lboro.ac.uk) <mailto:(E.Keightley /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>

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