TRE Workshop #3 - Transnational Radio

TRE Workshop #3
»Archives and Cultural Memory«
Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
Copenhagen 28 – 29 May 2015
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen 30 May 2015
TRE Workshop #3
»Archives and Cultural Memory«
Copenhagen 28 – 30 May 2015
With the rise of digitization, broadcasting archives are growing increasingly accessible. National projects like LARM, BBC’s World Service Archive Prototype and BBC
Genome Project as well as transnational project such as Europeana, EUScreen and
Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE) create new possibilities for researchers and
enable new histories to emerge. Broadcasting archives are increasingly relevant as
collections of cultural heritage and resources for cultural memories, and thus also as
objects of ideological mobilisation for national and supranational projects as well as
for minorities and communities. At the same time, smaller, private and commercial
online archives increasingly challenge large public archives as access points for cultural memory, community and creativity.
This workshop welcomes archivists, researchers, broadcasters and radio aficionados
alike in a discussion of the practical and methodological implications of such archival
transformations. In line with TRE‘s objectives, the workshop focuses on radio archives as repositories of cultural encounters, and asks how collaborations and clashes
between cultures have been documented, stored and re-circulated in broadcasting
archives, how archival knowledge can be networked to restore the knowledge of such
encounters and how the increased availability of archival material may be used to generate new transnational and transcultural spaces of dialogue.
About TRE
Transnational Radio Encounters. Mediations of Nationality, Identity and Community through Radio
(TRE) is a European Cooperative Research Project funded by Humanities in the European Research
Area (HERA).
Transnational Radio Encounters investigates how radio structures cultural encounters. Perhaps
more than any other medium, radio has articulated modern ideas of culture, nationality and identity. From its very beginning radio has had a history of transculturalism, documented in early shortwave practices, in transborder listening, in international services, community radio and in collaborations between broadcasters.
TRE examines the aesthetic, institutional and material features of such transnational radio encounters and asks what sorts of cultural identities and interactions they support. As archived radio material comes increasingly into circulation, the project further queries to what extent the national
orientation of archives obscures or preserves transnational contexts, and how archive materials
might be used to reflect or create new transnational encounters.
In order to enhance mutual exchange of archival material for research, teaching and the advent of
radio-related cultural memory, TRE has developed an online open knowledge base, the Transnational Radio Knowledge Base (TRKB), gathering audio, video, multimedia and texts related to all issues
concerned with transnational radio production, broadcasting, or reception to allow for comparative
perspectives on historical and present aspects of radio producing, listening and aesthetics.
https://transnationalradio.org
Programme at a glance
Full annotated programme on the further pages.
Public Day
DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DAB In – Thursday, 28 May
1 pm Welcome and introduction
​
Golo Föllmer & Jacob Kreutzfeld (TRE)
Tina Pipa (Head of DR-Archive)
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Keynote:
Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg)
3 - 5 pm
Dialogue on cultural histories and memory
Ib Poulsen (Roskilde University)
Nanna Bonde-Tylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
5:30 - 7 pm
Panel #1: National
7 - 8 pm
Sandwiches & Show+Tell
Transnational Radio Knowledge Base at DR
9 - 10:30 pm
Radio Cinema (Gloria Cinema)
archives and transnational agendas
Internal Workshop Day
DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DAB In – Friday, 29 May
Introduction
9:45 - 10:15 am About listening in the dark
10:30 - 12 am Panel #2: Community Radio and archives
9:30 am
12 am - 1 pm
Lunchbreak
1 - 2:30 pm
Panel #3: Tools
3 - 5:15 pm
5:15 - 5:30 pm
8:30 pm
and practicalities in transnational archiving
Interfacing the radio past: hands-on encounters with radio heritage
Wrap-up
conference dinner at the restaurant "Alabama Social"
Internal Project Day
University of Copenhagen – Saturday, 30 May
Saturday is reserved for discussions. TRE guests are welcome to take part in the meeting!
10 am - 1 pm
Strategic discussion: resonances,
broader research spheres
1 - 2 pm
Lunch
harmonies and echoes of TRE in Public Day
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DAB In
Thursday, 28 May
1 pm Welcome and introduction
​
Golo Föllmer
(TRE project leader, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Jacob Kreutzfeld
(TRE Organizer „Archives and Cultural Memory“, University of Copenhagen)
Tina Pipa
(Head of DR-Archive)
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Keynote:
From „source“ to „document“ to „data“: the archive as trading zone
of historical knowledge production
Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg)
Since the 19th century, archives have been developing best practices for the selection, documentation and preservation of historical sources. As knowledge infrastructures, they developed important standards and techniques of dealing with
diverse historical traditions and have turned into gatekeepers of our cultural heritage. This lecture aims at reflecting on the challenges that the digital age is confronting such institutions of „trust“ and „embodied expertise“ with. The shift from
„preservation“ to „accessibility“ in terms of public legitimation of archival institutions has affected the „control zone“ of the archive as historical knowledge broker.
Using the concept of „trading zone“, the lecture will discuss the negotiation of new
forms of collaboration between archives and its users and identify a number of
„boundary objects“ that can be analysed as being at the heart of the current renegotiation of expertise and practices of archival research.
3 - 5 pm
Dialogue on cultural histories and memory
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From Enzensberger to Clausen. An auditive transformation
Ib Poulsen (Roskilde University)
The radio feature is one of the most prominent genres in the historisation of radio.
Based on an extensive study of the Danish radio montage and its roots, this presentation considers the development of the genre in Danish radio and in particular
the transnational influences that helped shape it. The case of Viggo Clausen’s adaptions of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s radio essays to Danish radio will be discussed
as example of transnational inspiration and of creative re-production.
Cultural memory in the age of mass digitization
Nanna Bonde-Tylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
The 20th century saw a shift in the conceptual history of museums, libraries and
other archival sites from objective realms of knowledge to subjective experiential
framings. The primary objective is no longer to construct canons but to discover and
construct different indexes for the archive, a turn reflected among other things in
the way institutions increasingly include personal accounts, „small histories“, to reflect and refine the complexities of grand historical narratives. This talk will address
some of the ways in which mass digitization affects the raison d‘être of cultural
memory institutions in conceptual, political and technological terms, focusing on
the two significant mass digitization programs Europeana and Google Books.
5:30 - 7 pm
Panel #1: National
archives and transnational agendas
This panel will discuss how collaborations between archives and researchers can
be developed more fruitfully in a transnational perspective. What are the most
common constrains of archive use in research and in teaching future researchers
and other users in secondary and academic education? Is digitization merely granting access or is it generating new problems? How can archives better facilitate
transnational research agendas? How can research help us guide and optimize
future archive development?
Panelists:
– Carl Davies (British Broadcasting Company, Archive Innovation)
– Bas Agterberg (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Curator)
– Paul Wilson (The British Library, Radio Curator)
– Ditte Laursen (State Media Archive, Denmark, Senior Researcher)
– Jeroen Depraetere (EBU, Project Manager)
Moderator: Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht University)
7 - 8 pm
Sandwiches & Show+Tell
Transnational Radio Knowledge Base at DR
9 - 10:30 pm
Radio Cinema (Gloria Cinema)
Copenhagen Radio Cinema invites everyone to a collective listening session in the
comfy darkness of the movie theatre. Old and new examples of radiophonic transnationality, bilingualism, and international radio tendencies are presented in Gloria
Cinema in Copenhagen‘s city centre.
Please reserve a ticket by e-mail to Jacob Kreutzfeldt: [email protected]
before 14 May (tickets for TRE members and invited guests are already secured)
The workshop will relocate to:
Gloria Cinema
(Rådhuspladsen 59 I Copenhagen City Hall Square 59, 1550 Copenhagen V)
Internal Workshop Day
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DAB In
Friday, 29 May
Coffee from 9.00
9:30 am
Introduction
9:45 - 10:15 am About listening in the dark: the radio cinema concept, their work, collective listening forms, and possible futures of radio.
Jan Høgh Stricker & Rasmus Cleve Christensen
(Copenhagen Radio Cinema)
10:30 - 12 am
Panel #2: Community
Radio and archives
Minority communities, of whatever kind - cultural, religious, linguistic, ethnic or
gender-based - have found in community radio an important platform for expression of their cultural identity. But the informal, often ephemeral, context of programming means that the archiving of a community‘s broadcasting is often incomplete. This panel explores community radio archiving practices, and the extent to
which digitization has contributed to new forms of open access, online and collaborative archives. It will discuss how audiences and community programme makers
can gain a wider understanding of an international and historicized past and how
future generations can participate in cultural production through projects linked
to such archives.
Panelists:
– Paul Wilson (British Library Sound Archive)
– Helen Hahmann (CAPTCHA community archive project, Radio CORAX)
– Kathy Cremin (Bede´s World Museum and Hive Radio)
– Respondent: Birgitte Jallov, Empowerhouse
Moderators: 1 - 2:30 pm
Panel #3: Tools
Peter Lewis (London Metropolitan University)
Caroline Mitchell (University of Sunderland)
and practicalities in transnational archiving
This panel presents four projects working with transnational radio archives. It facilitates a discussion between different approaches to the value of transnational
archives: the didactic archive,the cultural heritage archive, the technologically
enhanced archive and the research driven archive. It will address the question of
what conceptual, technical and didactic means are best suited to stimulate extended and new, productive forms of use and to further collaboration in transnational
radio archiving.
Panelists:
– Stefania Scagliola (Erasmus University Rotterdam, representing Audiovisual Archives in the Digital Age)
– Richard Ranft (The British Library, representing Europeana Sounds)
– Hermann Rotermund (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, representing
Sounds of the European Past).
– Golo Föllmer (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, representing TRE)
Moderator: Per Jauert (Aarhus University)
TRE is supported by:
The project TRANSNATIONAL RADIO ENCOUNTERS is financially supported by
the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by
AHRC, AKA, BMBF via PT-DLR, DASTI, ETAG, FCT, FNR, FNRS, FWF, FWO, HAZU,
IRC, LMT, MHEST, NWO, NCN, RANNÍS, RCN, VR and The European Community
FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities programme.
This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under
grant agreement no 291827.
Interfacing the radio past: hands-on encounters with radio heritage
3 - 5:15 pm
How do we use archive materials to tell transnational stories? In this session, groups
will be asked to carry out exploratory and/or creative tasks using different archival
platforms. In so doing, we will explore possibilities and pitfalls of various strategies of engagement, as well as ways of involving the material, written, and visual
aspects of radio effectively in radio heritage. Ultimately we will explore how these
insights can be mobilized in developing the TRE exhibit with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Facilitators: Bas Agterberg (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
Alexander Badenoch (Utrecht University)
5:15 - 5:30 pm
Wrap-up
In the evening 8:30 pm we would like to invite all participants of the internal days
to a conference dinner at the restaurant "Alabama
(Sortedam Dossering 3, 2200 Copenhagen N).
Social"
Internal Project Day
University of Copenhagen
Saturday, 30 May
Saturday is reserved for practical and strategic discussions on TRE‘s role in the research field and
how its progress can feed into it. TRE guests are welcome to take part in the meeting!
harmonies and echoes of
TRE in broader research spheres
1 - 2 pm
Lunch
10 am - 1 pm
Strategic discussion: resonances,
TRE WS#3 is kindly
supported by:
Getting around in Copenhagen
Hotel:
Locations:
Nearby stations:
WakeUp Copenhagen
Carsten Niebuhrs Gade
Carsten Niebuhrs Gade 11
1577 København V
wakeupcopenhagen.dk
+45 44 80 00 00
Danish Broadcasting
Corporation (DR)
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 København C
Amagerfælledvej
Bus 5A to Københavns
Lufthavn
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixens Vej 1
2300 København S
Amagerfælledvej
Bus 5A to Københavns
Lufthavn
Alabama Social
Sortedam Dossering 3
2200 Copenhagen N
Ravnsborggade
Bus 5A to Husum Torv
Nearby bus station:
Polititorvet (Bus 5A)
Contact
Heidi Svømmekjær
0045 40 943 476
[email protected]
Jacob Kreutzfeldt
0045 51 301 357
[email protected]
Anja Richter
(for Q&A hotel)
0049 163 269 3446
[email protected]
For your own search: www.rejseplanen.dk
Transnational Radio Encounters.
Mediations of Nationality, Identity and Community through Radio
http://transnationalradio.org