[Commlist] CFP - Women's Broadcasting Histories Conference

CFP: Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26^th June 2026

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 January 2026

The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to 
announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the 
University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026.

The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories (IWBH) network (formed 
2021) aims to create a global nexus for scholars researching women’s 
broadcasting histories.

The conference aims to explore key challenges and opportunities in 
researching women’s broadcasting histories, including the ‘limits of the 
archive’—the gaps and omissions in institutional and organisational 
archives regarding women’s work, the different national, linguistic and 
regional contexts in which women worked, and the value attributed to 
programming, labour and women audiences. We are inclusive in our 
definition of women.

We welcome papers and pre-constituted panels on any aspect of women’s 
broadcasting history. These include but are not limited to:

  * Locating women in the archive
  * Intersectional approaches/queering histories
  * Women’s labour in broadcasting
  * Women and textual representation/genres
  * Women and broadcasting audiences
  * Transnational, transmedial and entangled histories of women’s
    broadcasting
  * Women’s programmes on radio and television


Proposals for 20-minute presentations must include 250-word abstract, 
50-word biography of the author(s). Pre-constituted panels should also 
include a 250-word rationale statement.

Deadline for proposals 16 January 2026. Please submit to 
(_iwbh2026 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(iwbh2026 /at/ gmail.com)>_

The conference will be in person with the potential for some 
opportunities for remote presentation.

Selected papers will be invited for the inaugural volume of the UEB 
series Women’s Broadcasting Histories: 
_https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/women-s-broadcasting-histories 
<https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/women-s-broadcasting-histories>_

For any inquiries, please contact (_iwbh2026 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(iwbh2026 /at/ gmail.com)>_


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