As a result of the success of 'The Reparative Spaces of Radio' discussion held in June 2009, we are running a series of three discussions on radio.

MiWNet, the Media & the Inner World Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University, is organizing a series of three seminars on radio to be held at each university in early December, March and June.

The MiW seminars will bring together academics, psychotherapists and media professionals for a series of discussions about the role of emotion and ideas of therapy in radio cultures. We are interested in contributions which examine the intentions and practices of radio producers and writers, as well as the affective dynamics and meanings of radio for listeners and producers.

Contributions to each seminar will be grouped around separate themes which will largely depend on the response to this call, but we are provisionally thinking of ‘Radio and Music’, ‘Radio Connecting Communities’ and ‘Radio and Histories’.

The seminars will be held in the late afternoon and run for two hours. Times and locations to be confirmed; dates likely to be Wednesday 8th December (Roehampton), Wednesday 30th March (London Metropolitan) and Wednesday 22nd June (UEL). Proposals not exceeding 250 words to p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk and h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk by close of play on Friday 19th November.


Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.

The first event in this series has now been organised. Details below.

Wednesday December 8th 2010 5-6.30pm

Chapman Hall, Queens Building, Southlands College, Roehampton University

Please join us for an afternoon of discussion which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. Our speakers will introduce research and ideas concerning how radio news journalism ‘works’ to create identifications in the audience with stories of human suffering. This will be relevant to students and scholars of journalism, cultural studies and psychotherapy.

Speakers

Kate Wright - Senior Lecturer in Journalism and News Media, Roehampton University and former BBC Radio Today and Newshour journalist.
Gavin Rees – Journalist; filmmaker; Director of The Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Europe; Research Fellow, Bournemouth University.
Brett Kahr – Media psychotherapist; psychological commentator and presenter; Honorary Professor Media & the Inner World, Roehampton University; former Special Media Adviser to The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Tickets are free but limited seats are available so to reserve a place please email h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk

From Barnes train station take the 265 or 72 bus south towards Roehampton for 5mins. Southlands College is the first right immediately after the Roehampton University main entrance, situated behind the pond.

There will be two further seminars on radio held at London Metropolitan in March and UEL in June. Enquiries - please email p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk or h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk

This seminar has been produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey, on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.


The second event has now been organised. Details follow:

Wednesday March 30th 2011 5-6.30pm, London Metropolitan University

Wednesday June 22nd 2011, 5-6.30pm. University of East London Please join us for two afternoons of discussion which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. This will be relevant to students and scholars of media, radio, cultural studies and psychoanalysis.

March 30th Speakers so far

Anne Karpf - Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, former radio critic of The Guardian and author of The Human Voice. Anne will speak on ‘The sound of home? How the radio voice anchors, contains and sometimes pierces’
Aaron Balick - psychotherapist, academic, and media contributor. Director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and a private practitioner, he also contributes to Radio One's Sunday Surgery. Aaron will speak on ‘The use of radio as a good object’ - how radio may resonate (or not) with the object relational world of the listener.
More speakers will be announced in due course.

If you are interested in speaking at one of our events please get in touch.

Tickets are free but limited seats are available so to reserve a place please email p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk.

This seminar is produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey.