The BBC at 100 Symposium. Session 'The BBC and Education'


TypeWorkshop
TitleThe BBC at 100 Symposium. Session 'The BBC and Education'
Event date13 to end of 15 Sep 2022
LocationThe National Science and Media Museum Bradford and online
Web address (URL)https://royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the-bbc-at-100-symposium-2/
Notes

It is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council with the support of the National Science and Media Museum, the University of Bradford and Media History.

The symposium is interdisciplinary, inclusive and free to attend in-person or online. It aims

- to act as a gathering of the tribes, encompassing everyone from established scholars to postgraduates
- to take stock of research about the past century of British broadcasting by scholars in history, media and cultural studies, literary criticism, music, technology and related fields
- to explore what conceptual and logistical changes are needed to foster new directions in research and teaching
- to bring together archivists and researchers to discuss how to expand access to BBC archival resources, especially audiovisual ones.

One hundred and fifty academics and archivists from every continent save Antarctica participate in thirty roundtables on aesthetics, Africa and the Middle East, audiences, children, digital broadcasting, digitised archives, diversity, documentary and features, domestic and international literary programming, education, entertainment, ethnicity and sexuality, global broadcasting, the interwar period, classical, jazz and popular music, local and regional radio, mainland Europe, Northern Ireland and ‘The Troubles’, oral and transnational histories of BBC women, politics and current affairs, popular culture and the overseas services, popular music, public service broadcasting, radio drama, realism, religion and television studies. [...]