TRE Workshop #3
»Archives and Cultural Memory«
Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
Copenhagen 28 – 29 May 2015
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen 30 May 2015
TRE Workshop #3
»Archives and Cultural Memory«
Copenhagen 28 – 30 May 2015
With the rise of digitization, broadcasting archives are growing increasingly accesGenome 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 welco
alike in a discussion of the practical and methodological implications of such archival
ves 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.
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 shortwave practices, in transborder listening, in international services, community radio and in collaborations 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
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.
https://transnationalradio.org
Public Day
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DAB In
Thursday, 28 May
1 pm
Welcome and introduction
Golo Föllmer
(TRE project leader, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Jacob Kreutzfeld
(TRE Organizer „Archives and Cultural Memory“, University of Copenhagen)
Tina Pipa
(Head of DR-Archive)
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Keynote:
From „source“ to „document“ to „data“: the archive as trading zone
of historical knowledge production
Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg)
Since the 19th century, archives have been developing best practices for the selection, documentation and preservation of historical sources. As knowledge infrastructures, they developed important standards and techniques of dealing with
diverse historical traditions and have turned into gatekeepers of our cultural herifronting such institutions of „trust“ and „embodied expertise“ with. The shift from
„preservation“ to „accessibility“ in terms of public legitimation of archival instituUsing the concept of „trading zone“, the lecture will discuss the negotiation of new
forms of collaboration between archives and its users and identify a number of
„boundary objects“ that can be analysed as being at the heart of the current renegotiation of expertise and practices of archival research.
3 - 5 pm
Dialogue on cultural histories and memory
From Enzensberger to Clausen. An auditive transformation
Ib Poulsen (Roskilde University)
The radio feature is one of the most prominent genres in the historisation of radio.
Based on an extensive study of the Danish radio montage and its roots, this presentation considers the development of the genre in Danish radio and in particular
as example of transnational inspiration and of creative re-production.
Cultural memory in the age of mass digitization
Nanna Bonde-Tylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
The 20th century saw a shift in the conceptual history of museums, libraries and
other archival sites from objective realms of knowledge to subjective experiential framings. The primary objective is no longer to construct canons but to discothings in the way institutions increasingly include personal accounts, „small histo-
TRE is supported by:
the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by
AHRC, AKA, BMBF via PT-DLR, DASTI, ETAG, FCT, FNR, FNRS, FWF, FWO, HAZU,
FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities programme.
This project has received funding from the European
technological development and demonstration under
grant agreement no 291827.
of cultural memory institutions in conceptual, political and technological terms,
Books.
5:30 - 7 pm
Panel #1: National
archives and transnational agendas
This panel will discuss how collaborations between archives and researchers can be
developed more fruitfully in a transnational perspective. What are the most common constrains of archive use in research and in teaching future researchers and
other users in secondary and academic education? Is digitization merely granting
access or is it generating new problems? How can archives better facilitate transnational research agendas? How can research help us guide and optimize future
archive development?
Panelists:
– Carl Davies (British Broadcasting Company, Archive Innovation)
– Paul Wilson (The British Library, Radio Curator)
– Ditte Laursen (State Media Archive, Denmark, Senior Researcher)
– Jeroen Depraetere (EBU, Project Manager)
Moderator: Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht University)
7 - 8 pm
Sandwiches & Show+Tell
Transnational Radio Knowledge Base at DR
9 - 10:30 pm
Radio Cinema (Gloria Cinema)
Copenhagen Radio Cinema invites everyone to a collective listening session in the
comfy darkness of the movie theatre. Old and new examples of radiophonic transnationality, bilingualism, and international radio tendencies are presented in Gloria
Please reserve a ticket by e-mail to Jacob Kreutzfeldt: [email protected]
before 14 May (tickets for TRE members and invited guests are already secured)
The workshop will relocate to:
Gloria Cinema
(Rådhuspladsen 59 I Copenhagen City Hall Square 59, 1550 Copenhagen V)
TRE WS#3 is kindly
supported by: