Radio and Decolonization: Bringing Sound into 20th-Century History

FAIN: FS-267096-19

University of Denver (Denver, CO 80210-4711)
Andrea L. Stanton (Project Director: February 2019 to October 2022)
Rebecca Paige Scales (Co Project Director: August 2019 to October 2022)
Alejandra Marina Bronfman (Co Project Director: August 2019 to October 2022)

A two-week seminar for 16 college and university faculty on the role of radio broadcasting and sound technologies in 20th-century history, with a focus on the era of decolonization.

This project proposes a two-week NEH summer seminar, aimed at higher education faculty members, including graduate students and contract or contingent faculty. To be hosted at the University of Denver in Summer 2020, this seminar brings together three trained historians whose work focuses on sound and radio broadcasting, and who have professional homes in three different disciplines (area studies, history, and religious studies). It aims to support participants in studying the roles of sound in 20th century history, using radio broadcasting as a key case study, and in developing initiatives for incorporating sound and material evidence of sound into their pedagogy.