Making Histories - Research Seminar
Melbourne, May 12-14th May
Venue: The Chifley at the Metropole, Melbourne
This seminar will chart the place of radio as a cultural technology in contemporary Australia. It will explore genealogies and histories of radio, the impact of current technological developments in the field and critical cultural analyses of the medium. The seminar will be a single session, in-the-round style to promote maximum interaction and discussion amongst participants.
This broad range of activities internationally and nationally will be consolidated by the 'Making Histories' seminar. Participants will discuss current research and link with research organizations such as ABC Archives and Library and the National Film and Sound Archives.
It is critical time to establish such a network. Radio is quickly becoming a function of a broader audio culture that features a range of digital distribution formats including 'podcasting', audio streaming and digital audio broadcasting.
Questions regarding policy, commercial research strategies, community participation and programming will become increasing important over the next decade. Academic and independent researchers need to be in a position where they can communicate and network to take advantage of the opportunities that will emerge over this period.
At the same time there is a need to expand the field of radio and broadcasting analysis. Critical engagements must be able to take account of how information is reconfigured in mass and subscription media that are firmly based in entertainment.
Sponsored by the Cultural Research Network, Cultural Histories and Geographies node
Supported by the Australian Radio-Audio Researchers Association
Friday 12th May: Dinner and informal discussion (6pm)
Saturday 13th May: Roundtable presentations 9am-4pm
Evening: Dinner and Australian Radio-Audio Research Association Meeting
Sunday 14th May: 9.30am-1pm
Contact: john.tebbutt@latrobe.edu.au 03 9479 5098
Program
Saturday 13 May 2006
8:30am |
Arrival Tea/Coffee |
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8:50am |
Welcome & Introduction Day One |
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research: sources and resources |
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9:00am |
ABC audio and archives |
John Spence (ABC Archive and Library) |
9:30am |
National Film and Sound Archives Sound Strategy |
Matthew Davies (National Film and Sound Archives) |
10:00am |
Writing a History of Commercial Radio in Australia: The Kiss of Death? |
Bridget-Griffen Foley (Macquarie University) |
10:30am |
Consolidating radio research in the university environment |
Gail Phillips (Murdoch Univerity) |
11:00am |
MORNING TEA – 30 minutes |
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research: strategies and projects |
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11:30am |
Research Strategies: creative practice based radio research |
Eurydice Aroney (Uni. of Technology Sydney) |
12:00pm |
Implications for radio of the multimedia soundscape |
Anne Dunn (Sydney) |
12:30pm |
Commercial talkback radio as a public forum: Policy, programmes and ‘publics’ |
Liz Gould (Macquarie) |
1:00pm |
When I hear the word culture, I switch on my radio: excavations and soundings around cultural radio, 1960-2005. |
Virginia Madsen (UNSW) |
1:30pm |
LUNCH - 1 hour |
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community and development |
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2:30pm |
Community Radio and Youth Development |
Elinor Rennie (Swinburne University of Technology) |
3:00pm |
National broadcasting services and national development in the Pacific |
Helen Molnar |
3:30pm |
Arab Media: A voice for the community? |
Saba ElGhul (Melbourne) |
4:00pm |
Thank you and follow up discussion |
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Afternoon Tea |
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5:00pm |
Close of Day One |
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Evening drinks and meal and discussion of ARARA development Venue to be Discussed |
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Sunday 14th May
9:00am |
Arrival Tea/Coffee |
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9:20am |
Welcome & Introduction Day One |
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crossing cultures and histories |
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9:30am |
Christine Cole in Indonesia: journalism, gender, nation |
John Tebbutt (La Trobe) |
10:00am |
Incessant reminders of somewhere else: America, radio and cultural hierachies |
David Goodman (Melbourne) |
10:30am |
Intimate Empire: Women’s radio programming in post-war Australia and Canada |
Justine Lloyd (UTS) |
11:00am |
“The most sickening piece of snobbery I have ever heard”: Audiences and ‘the Aboriginal Question’ in Blue Hills, 1952- 2001 |
Michelle Arrow (Macquarie) |
11:30am |
MORNING TEA – 30 minutes |
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radio and regions |
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12:00am |
Regional radio sites of compliance or resistance |
Kate Ames (Central Queensland University) |
12:30pm |
A Trojan horse: Commercial radio’s use of ‘truth telling’ and ‘testimony’ to create trust |
Liz Manning (University of Queensland) |
1:00pm |
Travels with my radio. Talkback in other places |
Richard Fitzgerald (UQ) |
1:30pm |
Final wrap ups, Thank yous |
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2:00pm |
Close of Day two |
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