[Commlist] Call for panellists: “Radio Relations: Care, Labour, Knowledge”

Call for panellists for “Care”, NECS (European Network for Cinema 
andMedia Studies) conference in Oslo, Norway, 13-17 June 2023

Radio Relations: Care, Labour, Knowledge


In recent years, media and film scholarship has sought to explore 
thecritical potential of sound, aurality and listening, and contribute 
to the critique of ocularcentric perspectives in the humanities. Such 
work has investigated the intersubjective relations formed through 
listening: how sound reproduction technologies shape and have been 
shaped by changing modes of listening, and the role of listening in the 
formation of modern publics and creation of informed participants in 
aural politics (Bickford 1996; Sterne 2003; Lacey, 2013). Studies of 
radio, in particular, have pointed to its historical significance – 
whether in commercial, public or other forms – in how it has variously 
adapted to changing political-economic conditions and media formations 
(Loviglio & Hilmes 2003; Lindgren & Loviglio 2022), informed modern 
histories of imperialism, war and conflict, and has been utilised by 
oppositional or alternative cultures to challenge mass media narratives. 
As such, radio provides a fertile ground for discussions around what we 
care about, and how sound technology may be used to listen carefully and 
caringly.

The purpose of this panel is to unpack how notions of care emerge, or 
arecontested in relation to radio, with a particular attention to 
listening, knowledge production, and media work and labour. We invite 
scholars to consider radio as a site of potentially radical, emotive, 
creative, and ambiguous practice that may offer critical articulations 
of care (or highlight its absence). It seeks to foreground media and 
care in response to conflict and uneven power relations, but also social 
and environmental justice, to hope and belonging, and as part of a 
critical re-assessment ofpraxis-oriented, activist and research practices.

The range of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:

- Radio, podcasting, streaming audio, digital music, film sound and 
sound art

- Sound work, labour, collective practice in (non-)institutional contexts

- Ethics of care (and protection) in preservation, archiving, and 
curation ofradio/audio media

- Theories of care in relation to sound, voice and community formations

- Emotion, affect, intimacy and caregiving through radio/audio media

- Listeners, audiences and fans of radio/audio media

- Radiophilia, audiophilia, musicophilia and audio-based attention economies

- (Self-)care and therapeutic practices via radio/audio media

- Community radio/audio, grassroots organizing and forms of 
politicalresistance

- Radio/audio interventions in the politics of sound/voice, from 
theperspective of class, race, gender, sexuality and/or ability

- Radio/audio media, care and engagement with ‘difficult’ and 
traumaticexperiences (e.g. physical or social isolation, incarceration, 
war, displacement, gender/race-based violence)

- Media ecology and sound methods (e.g. field recording, soundwalking, 
audiodiaries, soundscape research)

To submit the proposal, send abstract (max. 300 words), key 
biographicalreferences (max. 200 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) 
by Friday 27 January 2023 to the panel convenors:
- Carolyn Birdsall: (c.j.birdsall /at/ uva.nl)
- Ieva Gudaitytė: (ieva.gudaityte /at/ imv.uio.no)

Scholars, whether previously affiliated with NECS or new to the network, 
areinvited to submit proposals, but NECS membership is a requirement for 
submitting the panel proposal.

To see the ‘Care’ NECS conference general call for papers 
visit:https://necs.org/conference/cfp-2023/

Please note that neither NECS nor panel convenors cover travel 
costs.Participants need to acquire funding for their stay from their 
home universities or other institutions.

References

Bickford, Susan/. The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, 
and//Citizenship/ (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1996).

The Care Collective. /The Care Manifesto: The Politics of 
Interdependence/(London and New York: Verso, 2020).

Lacey, Kate. /Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of 
Listening in//the Media Age/ (Cambridge: Polity, 2013).

Lindgren, Mia, and Jason Loviglio, eds. /The Routledge Companion to 
Radio and//Podcast Studies/ (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).

Loviglio, Jason, and Michele Hilmes, eds. /Radio’s New Wave: Global 
Sound in//the Digital Era/ (New York and London: Routledge, 2013).


Sterne, Jonathan. /The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound 
Reproduction/(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).

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