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RadioAsiaPasifika:

Cultural Broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific Region

Date

Friday 19- Saturday 20 October 2018

Time

12.45pm - 6.30pm - 19 October

9.30am - 5.15pm - 20 October

Venue

Friday: Room A21, Trent Building, University Park campus
Saturday: Department of Music, University Park campus

Cost

Free

Online registration

Keynote speakers

Professor Ruth Finnegan, Open University

Dr Bart Barendregt, Leiden University

Is this for you?

This conference investigates the impact of the distribution of musical and other performing arts media via radio, television and digital broadcasting on communities in eastern Asia and the Pacific nations.

We encourage an interdisciplinary approach, and welcome scholars working in:

Ethnomusicology
Sound Studies
Anthropology
Media Studies
Cultural Studies
and other fields related to the Asia-Pacific region

Funding

This conference is funded by the AHRC

Arts and Humanites Research Council

Call for Papers (Deadline 1 August 2018)

We invite papers on a variety of topics that include but are not limited to the following:

Cultural Broadcasting in Historical Perspective
Ethnographic Research on Production and Reception
Mediation of the Performing Arts
Re-production of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Adaptation from Stage to Screen or Sound Media
Geopolitical Broadcasting Networks
Propaganda and Revolutionary Broadcasting
Indigenous Music Industries and Audiences
Audiences Across Borders and in Diaspora
Reconciliation and Healing via Mediated Performances
Audience Engagement in Participatory Media Arts

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words and a short biography to min.ong@nottingham.ac.uk by 1 August 2018.

Conference essentials

Programme

Accommodation

Location map (PDF)

Contact the organisers

Dr Lonán Ó Briain

Dr Min Yen Ong

Book Edition

Speakers at the conference will have an opportunity to revise their papers as chapters for an edited volume on the subject. The deadlines for contributors to the book are as follows:

Chapter drafts due: February 2019
Revised drafts due: August 2019
Volume sent to publisher: December 2019