[ecrea] cfp: Remapping European Media Cultures during the Cold War: Networks, Encounters, Exchanges

Remapping European Media Cultures during the Cold War: Networks, 
Encounters, Exchanges

A symposium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, March 30 - 
April 1, 2017

Keynote speakers:

Anikó Imre (University of Southern California)

Katie Trumpener (Yale University)

Recent research on Cold War Europe has sketched the image of a deeply 
interconnected continent, with cultural exchanges, travel and tourism, 
scientific collaborations and the like creating dense networks between 
countries on both sides of the “Iron Curtain,” and beyond. Media 
scholars, similarly, have begun to trace the active collaborations 
between Eastern and Western European broadcasting institutions; the 
networks formed by artists and technicians at and through film 
festivals; the movement of samizdat and tamizdat texts; and the 
relationships between professionals in specialized fields such as 
children’s entertainment, television, and industrial film.

This symposium aims to systematically examine European media during the 
Cold War in terms of such /histoires croisées/, tracing the 
transnational encounters between Eastern and Western European media 
industries and cultures between 1945 and 1990. The symposium will engage 
with a wide range of media forms and practices, from the moving image to 
sound to print, in order to ask the following questions:

   * How did media technologies, content, and forms travel during the
     Cold War, and what logics, institutions, and actors structured and
     governed these flows and interactions?
   * How can the study of such transnational encounters help us challenge
     established ideas and conceptualizations in Cold War history (among
     them, the monolithic image of the socialist state, and binary
     frameworks)?
   * What was the relevance of the geopolitical “in-between” (e.g.,
     countries such as Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Yugoslavia, and
     spaces such as film festivals) for media cultures during the Cold War?
   * If Eastern Europe is commonly considered to be peripheral to the
     field of media studies, what are the methodological ramifications of
     placing this “periphery” at the center of an examination of European
     media cultures during the Cold War? Similarly, what is revealed both
     by a comparative examination of media forms, and by a focus on
     practices typically considered “marginal” (e.g., sponsored media)?

We invite submissions from scholars across the humanities and 
interpretive social sciences pertaining, but not limited, to: 
connections, cooperations, and encounters on an institutional and 
individual level; coproductions between media institutions in socialist 
and non-socialist countries; study and other official visits to and from 
socialist media institutions; media spectatorship and reception; 
transnational exchange in media educational institutions; the 
circulation of socialist media productions outside the Eastern Bloc; and 
aesthetic and thematic connections between media in socialist and 
non-socialist countries. Submissions examining non-canonical, official, 
and “forgotten” media and texts are particularly welcome.

Submissions—including a 300-word abstract and short contributor 
bio—should be sent by November 15 to (rems /at/ umn.edu) <mailto:(rems /at/ umn.edu)>; 
queries may also be sent to this address. Notification of acceptance 
will be made before December 5. Limited contributions toward travel may 
be available.


Organized by Mari Pajala (Communication Studies, University of 
Minnesota/Media Studies, University of Turku), Alice Lovejoy (Cultural 
Studies and Comparative Literature/Moving Image Studies, University of 
Minnesota), and Tom Wolfe (History/Institute for Global Studies, 
University of Minnesota), and hosted by the Institute for Global Studies 
and Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, with 
support from the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting 
Professorship in Finnish Studies, the Center for German and European 
Studies, the departments of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies 
and Comparative Literature, and the Moving Image Studies Program.





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