[Commlist] The Cultures of Early Television conference

THE CULTURES OF EARLY TELEVISION

Free registration is now open for the University of Westminster 
conference in London on 2 and 3 July about television before the Second 
World War in Britain, continental Europe, the United States and the 
Soviet Union.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cultures-of-early-television-tickets-1987376877740 
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With presentations, panels and screenings of rare archival material, the 
event marks the centenary of the first British public presentation of 
what John Logie Baird called “true television”, which took place in 
London in early 1926.

The conference brings together scholars and archivists from Britain, 
Europe and North America to explore imaginings and understandings of 
early television, and its productions and people, rather than its 
technologies, which has been the dominant construction of this history 
to date

One central focus will be early television’s intermedial entanglements 
with the radio, cinema, theatre, dance and visual arts of the first half 
of the twentieth century. Parallel to this will be a concern to develop 
a transnational dialogue for a field that has largely developed along 
national lines.

The conference should be of interest not only to media historians, but 
also to those concerned with mid-century culture more broadly, to social 
historians, and to those with a general interest in the development of 
television.

Keynote speakers:
André Lange, editor of the website "Histoire de la télévision (et de 
quelques autres médias)" histv.net
Anne-Katrin Weber, University of Basel, author of Television before 
TV (2022)

Other confirmed speakers:
William Boddy, CUNY, Baruch College / Oliver Botar, University of 
Manitoba / Stephen Bourne, author of 'Black in the British Frame' 
(1998/2001) / Ian Christie, author of 'What Made Cinema?' (2025) / Doron 
Galili, Stockholm University / Lisa Kerrigan, British Film Institute / 
Angelina Lucento, Duke University / Luke McKernan, author of 'Let Me 
Dream Again' (2025) / Donald McLean, author of 'Restoring Baird’s Image' 
(2000) / Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University / Kate Murphy, 
Bournemouth University / Danielle Simon, Middlebury College / Ron Simon, 
The Paley Center for Media (via video link) / Simon Vaughan, Alexandra 
Palace Television Society / Mark Williams, Dartmouth

Convenor: John Wyver, University of Westminster, (j.wyver /at/ westminster.ac.uk)
Thanks to the generous support of The British Academy, registration for 
the conference is free.

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