Programme

Full programme here.

(All times are Greenwich Mean Time.)

09.15–09.30	Opening Remarks
09.30–11.00	Session 1: Aesthetics and Institutions of Post-War Modernism
	Ian Pace, ‘The Institution of Modernism’s Advocates in the Radio Stations of Occupied West Germany: A History of Key Individuals under Specific Circumstances’ Monika Żyła, ‘Experimental Studio, Warsaw and Electronic Music Studio, Belgrade – Two Visions of Modernity’ Janina Müller, ‘Critical Encounters: Listening, Mass Media Culture, and the “Neue Hörspiel”’
11.00–11.15	Break
11.15–12.00	Roundtable: Radio and Musical Practice
	Celeste Oram, Professor John Mowitt and Sam Ridout (chaired by Professor Martin Iddon)
12.00–13.00	Break  (viewing Celeste Oram and Farhad Deylami’s [dwell] (2020))
13.00–14.30	Session 2: Radio and Musical Culture
	Peter Graff, ‘Reimagining Music for Radio Drama: Norman Corwin’s Dramatic Writing for the Columbia Workshop’ Kate Guthrie, ‘Victorians on Radio: The BBC and Twentieth-century Modernity’ Caleb Boyd, ‘Levant contra Adorno: The Case for Radio and the Middlebrow Listener’
14.30–14.45	Break
14.45–16.15	Session 3: Radio and Modernism Between the Wars
	Danielle Simon, ‘“Capturing the Vital Spirit”: Embodying a futurist radio aesthetic’ Diego Alonso, ‘Radio, Neue Sachlichkeit and “Revolutionary Socialism”: Otto Mayer-Serra’s Theories on “Radio-music” in Weimar Germany (1930–1933) and Republican Spain (1934–1939)’ Camilla Bork, ‘The fear of Noise: Walter Gronostay’s Mord and the Weimar Radio Culture’
16.15–16.30	Break
16.30–18.00	Keynote
	Professor Kate Lacey (University of Sussex)