On 6 November 2019 the Netherlands celebrated 100 years of radio. This event reconstructs and explains the position of radio through a historical lens.
Dr. Hans-Ullich Wagner will contribute a presentation on "Writers and Radio: How Literary Authors Have Made Use of the Acoustic Medium – a Systematic Overview".
Abstract of the presentation
Literary authors have made use of the radio as a political, technological, cultural, and social medium from its infancy. A wide range of complex relationships can be recognised when looking at their ways of dealing with the medium, of writing for the radio, and of working with radio stations. Based on the rich body of examples we ask how to systematise this array of media practices?
Deduced by a methodological framework five clusters will be typified. Such a systematic overview will provide insights into the nature of the alliances and helps to understand the role of literary authors in radio cultures and their contribution to the culture of radio in the so-called ‘radio century’.
The Conference
On 6 November 2019 the Netherlands celebrated 100 years of radio. This date sees the 100th anniversary of the first transmission of a previously publicized radio broadcast, the first in a series by the radio station founded by inventor Hanso Idzerda. It marked the beginning of the extraordinary large number of broadcasting activities as we know them today. Radio has been tremendously significant for society and culture in the last century, and it is predicted that it will continue to play a major role albeit in a constantly changing context. Indeed, radio has survived and thrived in the last 100 years by continuously adapting to changing social, cultural and technological circumstances.
The academic endeavours to reconstruct and explain the position of radio through a historical lens enable us to consider the medium’s future. Doing so helps us to reflect on the development of a new and unknown technology towards a mainstream medium that is primarily powerful due to ‘connectivity’: its ability to connect people from all walks of life in various locations and situations. Its strength to connect those with different backgrounds, identities and tastes suggests that radio has a new and vital future in the digital age of interactive media and narrowcasting technology.
The centenary celebration takes place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum that houses a wealth of archive material related to Dutch radio history.
Keynote speakers Prof. Huub Wijfjes, Prof. Paddy Scannell, Dr. Morten Michelsen, Prof. Kate Lacey and Prof. Michele Hilmes
Organizing committee
Prof. Huub Wijfjes – University of Groningen/University of Amsterdam
Dr. Vincent Kuitenbrouwer – University of Amsterdam
Dr. Anya Luscombe – Utrecht University
Programme
Wednesday 6 November, pre-conference program
Programme of activities organised by Beeld & Geluid (Sound and Vision)
11.00: Radio Netherlands
12.30: symposium ‘toekomst van de radio’ - Kees Toering en Jan Westerhof
16.30: Presentation of Book
De Radio, een cultuurgeschiedenis. (A cultural history of Radio) Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum. For further details see
www.beeldengeluid.nl
Thursday 7 November
9.00 Opening conference
Keynote 1: Huub Wijfjes ‘
The Dutch claim to radio centenary fame, an archeology of radio broadcasting’
9.45 Coffee
10.00-11.30 Session 1: Radio and identities
chair: Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Anne MacLennan
Paul Rixon
Pekka Salosaari
Alexander Badenoch
11.30 Keynote 2: Paddy Scannell: ‘
The schedule and the longue duree’
12.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 2: Radio Information & Education
chair: Anya Luscombe
Barclay
Dieker
Mac’Ouma
Nevradakis
15.00: Tea
15.15-16.45 Session 3: Radio Music
chair: Philomeen Lelieveldt
van den Buys
Derksen
Giocondo
Lewis
16.45-17.30 Keynote 3: Morton Michelsen:
‘Changing Policies during a Century of Western European Music Radio’
17.30 Conference drinks & buffet and tours of Institute of sound and vision
Fri 8 November
9.00-09.45 Keynote 4: Kate Lacey
‘Routes for Research at the Turn of the Radio Century’
10.00-11.15 Session 4: Radio cultures and the culture of radio
Chair: Alexander Badenoch
Birdsall
Chignell
McMurtry
Wagner
11.15 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 5: Radio Sport
Chair: Huub Wijfjes
Pas
Stokvis
13.00-14.00: lunch
14.00-15.30 Session 6: - Radio between old and new technologies
Chair: Carolyn Birdsall
McMahon
Rogers
Brouwers
15.30 Coffee
15.45-16.30 Keynote Michele Hilmes:
‘The Persistence of Radio: Throughlines’
16.30 CLOSE
