Conferences/Events

Thursday 25th June - Friday 26th June: The conference explores key challenges and opportunities in researching women’s broadcasting histories on an international scale. This is with focus on the ‘limits of the archive’—the gaps and omissions in institutional and organisational archives regarding women’s work, the different national, linguistic and regional contexts in which women worked, and the value attributed to programming, labour and women audiences. We are inclusive in our definition of women.

Keynote Speakers:

Vicky Ball, De Montfort University

Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville

Industry Roundtable Speakers:

Helen Serafinowicz (Motherland, Amandaland)

Ruth Wrigley (Big Brother, The Big Breakfast, TOWIE)

Hannah Springham (Pineapple Studios)

Nina Nannar (Arts Editor for ITV News) 

Refreshments and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees at UEA.

Fees have been kept low to reflect the current precarity of the sector, if you feel able to support the event and the network, please select 'Salaried' option.

Online attendance for presenters should be agreed in advance for technical reasons.

This 1-day symposium brings together researchers who deal with collectives of all kinds as well as creative practitioners whose work engages with and emerges from collectivity. From the communist cell to the religious congregation, collectives and the experience of shared purpose have invariably given rise to attempts to represent aesthetically the goals, ideals, and promises of a group. This one-day symposium seeks to reflect on collectives as both the subject and condition of art, examining the ways in which shared purpose is communicated, examined, and extended through creative expression. In doing so, we conceive of the collective broadly in its artistic, religious, political, and (inter)national forms and are particularly interested in the melding of these categories within specific collectives and works. We ask how collectives are used as ways of imagining, incarnating, and consolidating durable community. We are also interested in how navigating multiplicity emerges as a formal feature of work through, for example, the use of choral speech or group movement.