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This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has
been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the
early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour news, and
now social media, the ways in which war has been broadcast has
constantly evolved. Not only has the media changed, the sources of
broadcasts now include state broadcasters, international corporations
and citizen journalists. We hope to understand the forces driving
changes in the way war has been broadcast, and how it is remediated and
remembered via the media, and how the public have both received and
participated in those developments.

There will be three sessions during the workshop:

10.00-10.00 Registration and Coffee

10.30-12 Session 1

Radio brings war into the home

Tim Lockley (Warwick) 'Our American Way of Living': American radio on
the eve of World War II

Kay Chadwick (Liverpool) Home truths? Domestic space and radio
propaganda in occupied France

Alban Webb (Sussex) Domestic Services: international broadcasting and
the Home Front

12-1 Lunch

1-2.30 Session 2

Remembering and remediating war

Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow) War, Memory and the Fallen Image.

James Chapman (Leicester) Foyle's War and revisionist narratives of the
home front during the Second World War

Christine Geraghty (Glasgow) "We sent boys to die": sentiment and
melodrama in the BBC's The Passing Bells (2014)

2.30-3 Tea/Coffee Break

3-4.30 Session 3

War and the young audience

Faye Woods (Reading) The Squaddies of BBC Three: Televising Conflict for
a Youth Audience in Our War

Cindy Carter (Cardiff) Watching children, watching news in times of war
and conflict

Maya Goetz (Prix Jeunesse International) How children imagine war: Inner
pictures of children without war experience and the role of media

4.30-5 Final thoughts

The workshop is a collaboration between the School of Comparative
American Studies
([http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/](http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/){target="_blank"})
and the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Studies
([http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/cthhmr/](http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/cthhmr/){target="_blank"})
and sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre.  


Booking now open (£10/£5 students): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bw  This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour news, and now social media, the ways in which war has been broadcast has constantly evolved.

Broadcasting War &#8211; An interdisciplinary 1-day workshop &#8211; University of Warwick &#8211; Saturday 6th May 2017

10 June 2017

10am--5pm, with a public screening at 6:20pm

Venue: NFT3, BFI Southbank, London

Featuring a Q&A with screenwriter [David
Rudkin](http://www.davidrudkin.com/){target="_blank"}

Including contributions from: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Yvonne Salmon
(Cambridge University), Will Fowler (BFI), Gareth Evans (Whitechapel
Gallery), and more tbc.

The Centre for Contemporary Literature is glad to support [Child be
Strange](https://childbestrangeblog.wordpress.com/){target="_blank"}, a
one-day symposium on the TV series [*Penda's
Fen*](http://www.davidrudkin.com/index.php/ct-menu-item-53/ct-menu-item-57){target="_blank"},
organized in partnership with the British Film Institute, the Birkbeck
Institute for the Moving Image, and Strange Attractor Press. Proposals
are now invited for papers at this conference.

When Alan Clarke's *Penda's Fen* was first broadcast in 1974 as a BBC
*Play for Today*, *The Times* commented that it was a "major work of
television" and praised David Rudkin's writing for its "beauty,
imagination and depth." Including the film in its 2011 selection of the
best 100 British films, *Time Out* magazine described *Penda's Fen* as a
"multi-layered reading of contemporary society and its personal, social,
sexual, psychic and metaphysical fault lines." It has since been
recognized as an extraordinary contribution to 1970s counter-cultural
investigations of alternative 'pagan' histories of landscape, myth,
theology and psyche at a crucial transitional moment in post-war
Britain. The film vanished into unseen cult status, but after decades of
unavailability the BFI has released *Penda's Fen* on Blu-ray and DVD.
This one-day symposium seeks to bring together academics, writers, and
artists from across different fields to excavate this weird and
wonderful cultural artefact.

Suggested topics for papers might include but are not limited to
*Penda's Fen* and:

**History -- Folklore & Folk Horror -- Politics, Nationalism &
Romanticism -- Music -- Genre -- Gender -- David Rudkin -- Television
studies -- Theology, Paganism & Occulture -- Queer studies --
Ecocriticism -- Landscape and Place**

Conference organisers Matthew Harle (BFI/Barbican) and James Machin
(Birkbeck) invite abstracts of 350 words for 20-minute papers; please
submit along with a short biographical note by 1st March 2017 to
childbestrangeconference@gmail.com.

Strange Attractor Press will be producing a critical anthology of
writing on *Penda's Fen*, edited by the conference organizers, which
will include outcomes from the conference.


10 June 2017  10am–5pm, with a public screening at 6:20pm  Venue: NFT3, BFI Southbank, London  Featuring a Q&amp;A with screenwriter David Rudkin  Including contributions from: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge University), Will Fowler (BFI), Gareth Evans (Whitechapel Gallery), and more tbc.

Postagens de Rogue Scholar

Broadcasting War – An interdisciplinary 1-day workshop – University of Warwick – Saturday 6th May 2017

Child Be Strange: A Symposium on Penda’s Fen