Sunday, 8 April

‘Women in Radio’

The invention of radio has been one of the major milestone in the history of mass communication, quickly becoming a tool of political action, whether for the purpose of oppression or to liberate unheard voices, to connect oppressed groups living in physically different locations divided by walls and fences. New Emergences, a The Hague-based initiative that serves as a platform to openly discuss issues regarding gender equality in electronic music and sound art, will explore the way radio has represented the female voice, and how as a medium and technology it can be both enabling and restricting.

Alec Badenoch, Professor of Transnational Media at VU Amsterdam and Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University, and Carolyn Birdsall, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of Amsterdam, will each give a presentation focusing on radio as a platform for networking, empowerment/oppression, in/visibility, intervention, and radio on film. Following the talks, Natasha Taylor will join them for panel discussion, moderated by Josephine Bosma.

New Emergences: Women in Radio is part of the Rewire 2018 discourse programme, which can be visited free of charge.