Media, Telecommunications and Empire

These seminar series designed by Sarah Nelson (Ambrose Monell Fellow for Technology & Democracy (JSF), PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University) in conjunction with the Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue at UVA (co-sponsored by the Columbia Center for Comparative Media) is called “Media, Telecommunications, and Empire: Analytics of Power— old and new— in an Interdisciplinary Field.”

Visit the conference website here.

Next session : Telecommunications. Infrastructure, Capitalism and Empire.

Tuesday, March 9, 12:00 pm EST

Call for Submissions: American Journalism: A Journal of Media History Digital Reviews Section

Are you interested in writing a digital media review for American Journalism: A Journal of Media History? I am currently collecting reviews for forthcoming issues. Reviews should be 700 to 800 words, and they can be of any website, digital archive, or film dealing with media history, broadly defined. (For example, you could write about one of the digital archives you might have consulted while researching a book or journal article, the digital archive at your own university, or a piece of popular media that engages with relevant historical topics or issues.) Please contact me at cteresa@niagara.edu for more information. The next round of reviews is due by May 20th, 2021.

Call for Papers: Historical Traces of European Radio Archives, 1930-1960

Dates: 28-29 October 2021
Location: University of Amsterdam and/or online
Organisers: Carolyn Birdsall, Corinna R. Kaiser and Erica Harrison
Contact: trace@uva.nl
Abstracts: 15 April 2021, no more than 300 words plus short biography
Acceptance: 01 May 2021
Papers: 01 September 2021, position papers (2000-4500 words)

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