Archives and Cultural Memory
As a part a workshop on radio archives and cultural memory the HERA-funded TRE-project in collaboration with The University of Copenhagen and DR hosts an open seminar
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 aicionados 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.
Contact
Please contact Jacob Kreutzfeldt (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies/IKK) jacobk@hum.ku.dk, if you are interested in taking part.
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 short- wave practices, in transborder listening, in international services, community radio and in collabora- tions 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 relect 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.