Soundtrack of Conflict: Conference Programme
- 08:45-09:30 Registration / Welcome
- 09:30-10:00 M. J. Grant: Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
- 10:00-10:30 Mauro Fosco Bertola (Universität Heidelberg)
Tradition as a Pattern of War-Incitement: The Musical Policy of Italian Radio during the Fascist Period
- 10:30-11:00 Karine Le Bail (EHESS, Paris)
“La musique des Ondes en France, sous l’occupation”
- 11:00-11:30 Katherine Baber (University of Redlands)
Jazz, World War II Radio Propaganda, and the Case of Tokyo Rose
- 11:30-12:00 Discussion
- 12:00-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-14:30 Inna Klause (Universität Göttingen)
Music in Radio Broadcasts in the Gulag
- 14:30-15:00 Chen-Ching Cheng (University of Edinburgh)
The Voice of China: Pirate Radio Broadcasting of Teresa Teng from Taiwan and Hong Kong during the Cold War Period in Asia
- 15:00-15:30 Discussion
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
- 16:00-16:30 Pradeep Nishantha Weerasinghe (University of Colombo)
Music and Radio during the final Stage of the Eelam War in Sri Lanka
- 16:30-17:00 Ruth Finnegan (Open University, UK)
Integration or Separation? The story of Radio and Music in Fiji
- 17:00-17:30 Discussion
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Thursday, 15 September 2011
Session 0
Session 1 Chair: Andreas Waczkat
Session 2 Chair: Christian Storch
Session 3 Chair: Birgit Abels
- 10:00-10:30 Peter Schimpf (Metropolitan State College, Denver)
Henry Cowell and the development of Iranian State Radio for the United States Information Agency
- 10:30-11:00 Beau Bothwell (Columbia University)
Sounding American: Radio Sawa‘s Musical Diplomacy in the Middle Eastern Radioscape
- 11:00-11:30 Discussion
- 11:30-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-13:30 Oluwafemi Alexander Ladapo (University of Ibadan)
Martial Music at Dawn: Introit for Coup d‘Etats
- 13:30-14:00 Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi (University of Witwatersrand)
Radio Freedom, Songs of Freedom and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa, 1963-1991
- 14:00-14:30 Paul Richards (Universiteit Wageningen)
Broadcasting and the Soundscape of War - Music in Armed Insurgency
- 14:30-15:00 Discussion
- 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
- 15:30-16:00 Sarah Angello (CUNY Graduate Centre; New York)
Broadcasting Democracy, Silencing Freedom: Music, Broadcasting and Censorship in Rwanda
- 16:00-16:30 James Parker (Melbourne Law School)
Simon Bikindi, Incitement to Genocide and the Musicology of Justice
- 16:30-17:00 Discussion
- 18:30-19:30 (Group A), 20:00-21:00 (Group B)
Milo Rau and Jens Dietrich with Dorcy Rugamba
(International Institute of Political Murder, Berlin/Zürich)
Introduction to the Theatre Project "Hate Radio" - 10:00-10:30 Elli Charamis (University of Athens)
Music in Greek Radio Broadcasting in Wartime (1940-1950)
- 10:30-11:00 Vlasis Vlasidis (University of Western Macedonia, Florina)
Propaganda and Music: Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s
- 11:00-11:30 Discussion
- 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
- 12:00-13:00 Closing discussion
Friday, 16 September 2011
Session 4 Chair: Stephanie Leder
Session 5 Chair: Cornelia Nuxoll
Session 6 Chair: M. J. Grant
Session 7a/b Lecture Performance in the Studio of Stadtradio Göttingen
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Session 8 Chair: Anna Papaeti
Session 9 Chair: M. J. Grant