This conference is free and open to those in the academic/archival/curatorial/preservation community who would like to attend. Contact Kevin Palermo at kevinpalermo@gwmail.gwu.edu to register.
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, contact: michele.hilmes@gmail.com.
Radio Preservation Task Force Conference
February 25, 26, 27, 2016
Option 1) Tour the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, located in Culpeper, VA, a an hour+ bus ride from central DC. See http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/ for information. A bus will leave the LOC Madison building at 9 AM, returning approximately 2:30 PM. Lunch will be provided. Limited to 50 people.
8:30 – registration opens, Madison Building (LOC), Capitol Hill
Welcome – Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Introduction – Christopher H. Sterling, Chair, National Recording Preservation Board and Director, Radio Preservation Task Force
Keynote – Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan
“‘No Sound is Dissonant which tells of Life’: History and the Audio(visual) Archive”
MORNING SESSIONS 10:45-12:15
1) Panel: Radio and National Heritage
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia, chair
Jane Givins and Ayda Pourasad, NPR – “How We Created the NPR Historic Archives”
Chuck Howell, University of Maryland – “Vox Pop Goes to War – Radio’s “Voice of the People” During World War II”
Michael Keith, Boston College – “Researching Native American radio”
Respondent: Dan Streible, New York University/Orphan Film
2) Panel: Beyond Borders: US Radio in Transnational Contexts
David Goodman, University of Melbourne, chair
Jenny Doctor, Syracuse University, “Cultural Radio in Britain and America in the Post-War Era”
David Jenemann, University of Vermont, “From Father Coughlin to Benny Goodman:The Frankfurt School as Radio Archivists”
Anne MacLennan, University of Toronto, “Crossing the Border: The Case of CBS, NBC, and Mutual Stations Outside the US”
Respondent: Alex Russo, Catholic University of America
3) Panel: Public Radio’s Local Heritage
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College, chair
Karen Cariani, AAPB, “Digging into the American Archive of Public Broadcasting”
Michael Huntsberger, Linfield College, “Radio on the Frontier: Re-examining the Local Heritage of Public Radio in the Pacific Northwest.”
Will Chase and Julie Rogers, NPR – “Speaking with Many Voices: Rediscovering National Public Radio’s Early Broadcasts”
Respondent: Alan Stavitsky, University of Nevada
4) Panel: Race and Radio: Researching the Other
Darrell Newton, Salisbury University, chair
Sonja Williams, Howard University – “African-American Radio in Chicago”
Darrell Newton – “The BBC’s West Indian Programs”
Suzanne E. Smith, George Mason University, – “The ‘Happy Am I’ Preacher:Preserving the Audio History of Radio Evangelist Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux”
Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia – “The case of the Scattered Jamaican Archive”
Respondent: Walter Forsberg, Media Archivist, Smithsonian Museum of African American History
12:15-1:30 – lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30-3:00
5) Radio Pedagogy Workshop
Eric Rothenbuhler, Webster University, chair
Amanda Keeler, Marquette University, organizer
Neil Verma, Northwestern University
Cynthia Meyers, College of Mount St. Vincent
Kathy Battles, Oakland University
Jennifer Stoever, Binghamton University
Respondent:
6) Panel: Broadcasting Gender in Intimate Settings
Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona, chair
Jennifer Wang, independent scholar, “The We Say What We Think Club (1937-1957)”
Jason Loviglio, University of Maryland/Baltimore County, “Judy and Jane (1932-35)”
Catherine Martin, Boston University, “Candy Matson (NBC, 1949-1951)”
Respondent: Brent Malin, University of Pittsburgh
7) Panel: Radio Communities
Susan Smulyan, Brown University, chair
Christopher Terry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Diversity Demonstrated: The Gay Perspectives Radio Program”
Elizabeth Hansen, independent scholar, “Searching for the Signal: Locating Student Radio’s Lost History”
Joseph Gallucci, Pacifica Radio Archives, “Out on the Air: A History of LGBT Voices on Pacifica Radio”
Respondent: Will Floyd, Prometheus Project
8) Panel: Radio in the Public Service
Bill Siemering, Developing Radio Partners, chair
Joy Hayes, University of Iowa, “Sounding out the Good Neighbor Policy: Brave New World Broadcasts and the Political Aesthetics of the New Deal”
David Goodman, University of Melbourne, “Hearing “Immigrants All”
Alex Kupfer, New York University, “Extension Programming On the Network Air: NBC’s The Land-Grant College Radio Hour”
Respondent – Jack Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Introduction: Christopher H. Sterling
Sam Brylawski, University of California – Santa Barbara
“Unchain Broadcasting Before It’s Lost Forever: Collaboration for Preservation”
4:45-5:00 — Brief wrap up and plans for tomorrow – Chris/Josh/Michele
Buses leave Capitol Hill Hotel at 8:00 AM
8:30 – Registration, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park
Sam Brylawski, chair
Alan Gevinson, LOC/American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Johanna Zorn, Third Coast International Audio Festival
Brian DeShazor, Pacifica Radio Archives
Andy Lanset, WNYC/WQXR/New York Public Radio
Laura Soto-Barra, NPR Research, Archives, and Data Strategy
MORNING SESSIONS 11:00 – 12:30
9) Workshop: Archiving from Below
Janet Wasko, University of Oregon, chair
Shawn VanCour, New York University, organizer
Mike Socolow, University of Maine
Jenny Doctor, Syracuse University
Melissa Meade, Colby/Sawyer College
Edward Brouder, independent archivist
Discussants:
David Walker, Smithsonian Folklife
Henry Sapoznik, UW-Madison
10) Caucus on Caucuses
Josh Shepperd, Catholic University, Chair
Kathleen Battles – LGBT Radio
Mary Beth Haralovich – Gender and Feminist Radio
Laura Schnitker and Jennifer Waits – College, Community, and Educational Radio
Sonja Williams – African American and Civil Rights Radio
Jon Nathan Anderson – Labor Radio
Michael Stamm – Radio Journalism
Inés Casillas – Spanish Language and Bilingual Radio
David Jenemann – Sports Radio
11) Workshop: Surprising Archives/Archival Surprises
Kathy Fuller-Seeley, University of Texas at Austin, chair
Jennifer Wang, independent scholar
Bill Kirkpatrick, Denison University
Michael Henry, University of Maryland archives
David Weinstein, National Endowment for the Humanities
Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville
Discussants:
Wendy Shay, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Tony Macaluso, Studs Terkel Archive
12) Committee on Metadata and Digital Archiving
Cynthia Meyers, Mount St. Vincent, chair
Featured speakers:
Jeremy Morris and Andrew Bottomley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Saving New Sounds: What Archiving Podcasts Can Tell Us about Digital Radio History, Content, and Form”
Casey Davis and Karen Cariani, “The American Archive of Public Broadcasting”
Andy Lanset, John Passmore, Mary Kidd, “New York Public Radio/WNYC”
Discussants:
Eric Hoyt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jack Brighton, PBCore
Megan McShea, Smithsonian American Archives of Art
Stephanie Sapienza, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
William Vanden Dries, Indiana University
David Walker, Smithsonian Folklife
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College
13) Committee on Education and Outreach
Alison Perlman, UC-Irvine, Chair
Ross Melnick, UC-Santa Barbara
Kit Hughes, Miami University of Ohio
Thomas Doherty, Brandeis Univeresity
Mary Ann Watson, Eastern Michigan University
Nora Patterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Brown, University of Wyoming
Christopher Cwynar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lisa Rabin, George Mason University
Lauren Bratslavsky, Illinois State University
Nicole Hemmer – Miller Center for Public Affairs and U.S. News and World Report
14) Workshop: Contemporary Material Practices in Archives
Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University, chair
Neil Verma, Northwestern University, organizer
Patrick Feaster, Indiana University
Erica Dowell, Lilly Library, Indiana University
Allison Schein, Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Laura LaPlaca, Northwestern University
Derek Vaillant, University of Michigan
Discussants:
Carlene Stephens, National Museum of American History
Karma Foley, Smithsonian Network
12:30-1:30 – lunch
AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30-3:00
15) Workshop: The National Endowment for the Humanities and Funding for Radio Archive Projects
David Weinstein, Division of Public Programs, NEH
Joshua Sternfeld, Division of Preservation and Access, NEH
Jesse Johnson, Division of Preservation and Access, NEH
16) Caucus on Gender, Feminist, and LGBT Radio
Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona and Kathy Battles, Oakland University, co-chairs
Allison McCracken, DePaul University
Susan Brinson, Auburn University
Phylis Johnson, Southern Illinois University
Jennifer Wang, Independent scholar
17) Caucus on Spanish Language and Bilingual Radio
Inés Casillas, UCSB, chair
Sonia Robles, Brenau University
Monica de la Torre, Washington University
Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville
Kathy Franz, Smithsonian Museum of American History
Jose Luis Ortiz Garza, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler, Border Radio Research Institute
18) Radio Archivists Committee
Patrick Feaster, Indiana University, chair
Invited Participants:
David Hunter, University of Texas
Alan Burdette, Indiana University
Mary Huelsbeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Vallier, University of Washington
Jonathan Hiam, New York Public Library
David Seubert, UC-Santa Barbara and ARSC
Jeanette Berard, Thousand Oaks Library
Ruta Abolins, University of Georgia
Laurie Sather, Hagley Museum and Library
Jerry McBride, Stanford University
Curtis Fletcher, USC
19) Caucus on College, Community and Educational Radio
Jennifer Waits, Radio Survivor, and Laura Schnitker, University of Maryland Special Collections, co-chairs
Featured speakers:
Tim Brooks, independent scholar
Ken Freedman, WFMU
Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta
Feliks Banel, University of Washington
Josh Shepperd, Catholic University of America
Discussants:
Tim Anderson, Old Dominion University
John Nathan Anderson, CUNY-Brooklyn
Mike Lupica – WPRB-Princeton
Nick Rubin – WTJU and College Radio History
Glenda Balas – University of Texas-Dallas
Elena Razlogova – Concordia University
David Suisman – University of Delaware and The Hagley Center
Kyle Barnett – Bellarmine University
Brian Gregory – Pace University
Alex Russo – Catholic University
20) Caucus on Radio Journalism
Lawrence Lichty, chair
Josh Davis – University of Baltimore (Media and the Movement)
Seth Kotch – University of North Carolina (Media and the Movement)
Tom Mascaro – Bowling Green State
Jack Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Victor Pickard – University of Pennsylvania
Michael Stamm – Michigan State (Caucus chair going forward)
Matt Ehrlich – University of Illinois
Ira Wagman – Carleton University
Bill Siemering – National Public Radio
Chris Sterling, NRPB and RPTF, chair
Gene DeAnna, Library of Congress
Elizabeth Peterson, American Folklife Center
Gene Policinski, Newseum
Robert Horton, National Museum of American History
Jeff Place, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
5:00-7:00 PM CLOSING RECEPTION
Hornbake Library, University of Maryland
INVITED PARTICIPANTS
Steve Leggett – Library of Congress
Cary O’Dell – Library of Congress
Matt Barton – Library of Congress
Dorinda Hartmann – Library of Congress
Gregory Lukow – Library of Congress
Susan Manus – Library of Congress
Sheryl Cannady – Library of Congress
Gayle Osterberg – Library of Congress
Tom Pease – Library of Congress
Kate Murray – Library of Congress
Michael Ashenfelder – Library of Congress
Patricia Aufderheide –
Harry Rice – Berea College
Sally Kane – National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Josh Garrett-Davis – Princeton University
Noah Arceneaux – San Diego State University
Dana Gerber-Margie – The Audio Signal
Tracey Laird – Agnes Scott College
Phil Scepanski – Vassar College
Bruce Lenthall – University of Pennsylvania
Frank Absher – St. Louis Radio Society
Len O’Kelly – Grand Valley State University
Paul McLane – Radio World
Thomas Witherspoon – SWL/Short Wave Radio
Michael Austin – Howard University
Jonathan Auerbach – University of Maryland
Emily Goodman – Northwestern University
Lamont Yeakey – Cal State – Los Angeles
Oliver Gayken – University of Maryland
Dan Marcus – Goucher College
Brian Real – University of Maryland
Martin Johnson – Catholic University of America
Guide to terminology
Keynotes and Plenary sessions are events that assemble the entire conference to hear a talk or discussion, and to participate in general discussion. No competing sessions are scheduled against them.
Panels feature 3-4 research presentations, 15 to 20 minutes in length (depending on the number of presenters on the panel) sometimes followed by remarks from a respondent, followed by general discussion.
Workshops are discussion-oriented sessions that feature 5-6 speakers on an overarching topic, who make 5-10 minutes presentations, followed by a general discussion.
Caucuses are working meetings of task force members to strategize next year’s activities and get more people involved in them. Caucuses are organized by collecting areas: journalism, sports, LGBT, etc.
Committees represent the standing RPTF committees responsible for specific tasks, like Metadata/digital cataloging, and Education and Outreach.
We invite all conference participants to take part in all types of sessions.
RPTF Director/Convenor: Christopher H. Sterling, George Washington University
National Research Director: Josh Shepperd, The Catholic University of America
Conference Program Director: Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison