8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Arrival and setup

8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m.

Welcoming remarks

8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Invited Discussion: What Counts as Communication History?

From media technologies to social interactions, from visual culture to information networks, how do we define the history of communication, both as a phenomenon and scholarly field? This panel debates conceptual definitions and limitations, as well as examines what and who can be excluded – and constituted – through acts of definition and historicization.

• Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Music and Faculty of Information and Media Studies, author of Rocking the Wasteland: A Cultural History of Popular Music on American Network Television from Elvis to MTV (forthcoming), Duke University Press
• Christian Schwarzenegger, Institute for Media and Educational Technology, Augsburg University, Germany; co-editor Medien & Zeit special issues, “What is Communication History? European Answers.”
• David Serlin, University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication, Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press).

10:00-10:10 a.m.

Break

10:10 a.m.-11:25

Roundtable 1: Weighing the Past, Projecting a Future: Practicing Critical Communication History In Dangerous Times

• Janice Peck, “Critical Historical Research as the Negation of the Past in the Name of the Future”
• Inger Stole, “From Culture Shock to Scholarly Pursuit”
• Jason Loviglio, “NPR and ‘The Great Moving Right Show’”
• Carol Stabile, “The Personal is Historical: Feminist Media Studies, Historical Materialism and Experience”
• Steve Macek, “‘A Good Dose of Tear Gas’: On the Dialectical Connection Between Critical History and Radical Activism”

11:25 a.m.-12:40 p.m.

Roundtable 2: Counterhistories, Contradictions, and Contestations: Recovering the Past to Remake the Present

• Mariano E. Navarro and Jose Luis Ortiz, “Magical towns vs. Middletown: Reassessing Tepoztlán’s Place in Communication Historiography”
• Ben Peters, “Technological Utopianism in Early Soviet Networks”
• Alison Trope, “Another Side of Hollywood: Locating the Roots of Hollywood Philanthropy”
• Terra Eggink, “Of Pre and Post, Human and Non: The Case of Animal Trials”
• Fred Fejes, “The Fort Lauderdale LGBT Community: Real and Imagined”
• Abiodun Salawu, “‘Not Iwe Irohin but Umshumayeli’: A Revisit of the Historiography of the Early African Language Press”

12:40 p.m. -1:40 p.m.

Lunch and Interactive Screening Exhibit: Retelling or Recalling?: Generating a Counterhistory of CBC Artspots

Get a hands-on experience with this Mary Elizabeth Luka and her rough-cut documentary, made using Korsakow System software for interactive, nonlinear database films.

1:40 p.m.-2:55 p.m.

Roundtable 3: Praxis in Pluralistic Fields: Engaging Transdisciplinarity

• Vicki Mayer, “Placing Everyday Culture: Lessons from MediaNOLA”
• Peter Schaefer, “Why is ‘Ether’ in the ‘Ethernet’?”
• Carolyn Kane, “Cool Pinks and Hot Blues: Bridging Genealogies of Warm–Cool Color”
• Lauren M. Bratslavsky and Benjamin J. Birkinbine, “(Re)Discovering the Analog: Investigating Archives in the Age of Digitization”
• Josh Lauer, “Against Progress: Media Archaeology and Historical Representation”
• Christopher A. House, “Religious Rhetoric(s) of the African Diaspora: Using Oral History to Study HIV/AIDS, Community, and Rhetorical Interventions”

2:55 p.m.-4:05 p.m.

Roundtable 4: Policy and Priorities: From Insights to Action

• Stephanie Ricker Schulte, “The Singularity: Solving and Scapegoating History”
• Michael Dick, “A Case for Historiographic Innovation: Interrogating the Narratives of the Federated Social Web Initiative”
• Yasuhito Abe, “Historicizing the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis in Japan”
• Mandy Troger, “Free Markets for Free Media? Learning from U.S. Media Policies in Post-WII Germany”
• Aharon Ariel Lavi, “The Price of Thinking Ahead: Lessons from the Israeli case of the Commission for Future Generations (2001-2006)”
• Ryan Ellis, “The Premature Death of Electronic Mail: The United States Postal Service’s E-COM Program, 1978-1984”

4:05 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.

Break

4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Featured Lecture: Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara