We seek submissions for a series of panels that develop a variety of approaches to radio broadcasting and listening cultures in the Cold War. Topics could include but are not limited to:

German intellectuals and development of radio as a medium after 1945;
Radio as an interface between politics and the arts;
Intersections, conflicts, and forms of exchange between East and West German broadcasting;
Connections or continuities between broadcasting during World War II and the Cold War;
Programming and audiences;
Radio technologies, mass culture, and consumption;
The role of gender in radio broadcasting;
Representations of radio in film, fiction, and on stage;
Transition from radio to television;
German radio and recent theories of listening (M. Dolar, J.-L. Nancy and others);
Conservatism and radicalism in Cold War radio;
German radio in the European and international context.

Please send a brief (250-300 words) abstract and bio (100-150 words) by February 3 to Yuliya Komska (yuliya.komska@dartmouth.edu) and Anna Parkinson (a-parkinson@northwestern.edu).