[artinfo] CfP: Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe

[VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture]

VIEW, the Journal of European Television History 
and Culture is the first peer-reviewed, 
multi-media and open access e-journal in the 
field of
European television history and culture. It 
offers an international platform for outstanding 
academic research and archival reflection on 
television as an important part of our European 
cultural heritage.

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CfP: Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe

VIEW Journal of European Television History and 
Culture Vol. 3, Issue 5, Spring 2014.


Deadline for abstracts: February 1st, 2014.
Deadline for full papers: 15 March, 2014.

While recent comparative and transnational 
approaches in the field of European television 
history have demonstrated the need for 
(post)socialist television histories in Europe, 
there is currently limited scholarship dedicated 
to this geopolitical area of television in 
Europe. This area of study has mostly been 
relegated to the margins of other disciplines and 
remained isolated by national languages 
inaccessible to non-native scholars.

The forthcoming issue of VIEW Journal of European 
Television History and Culture is dedicated to 
the theme Television Histories in (Post)Socialist 
Europe. It aims to open up discussions of 
(post)socialist television in Europe beyond 
political histories of the nation-state, 
discourses of Cold War isolation and East-West 
antagonism. The very broad questions that 
motivate these aims are:


Which empirical case studies help us understand 
(post)socialist television histories beyond 
stories of political control?

Which primary sources allow us access to 
television histories that fall outside the 
mainstream histories of the socialist state?

What methods do we need in order to decentralize 
the state in the production of (post)socialist 
television histories and analyze television 
histories that have resisted, subverted or 
negotiated the politics of communist regimes?

How can we theorize (post)socialist television as 
an object of study that revisits the East versus 
West dichotomies that have been at the centre of 
television history in Europe?

How do (post)socialist television histories help 
us revisit the Cold War geography of Europe?

How can we understand the shifting place of 
(post)socialist television within broader 
societal processes of communication?

VIEW welcomes contributions in the form of short 
articles (2000-4500 words), video and audio 
essays that take these broad questions on board 
and deal specifically with topics such as:


empirical case studies that help us understand 
(post)socialist television histories beyond 
stories of political control;

video and audio essays exploring television 
archival collections in Eastern Europe;

video and audio essays presenting primary sources 
(e.g. oral interviews, audio-visual and written 
material) of television in former socialist 
countries;

transnational cultures of (post)socialist 
television in Europe, namely: shared cultures of 
television production and professions, shared 
techno-political cultures of television and 
shared viewing cultures;

memories of socialist television and nostalgia;

popular television programmes during and since socialism.
This issue is guest edited by the European 
(Post)Socialist Television History Network in 
collaboration with the following guest editorial 
team:


Kirsten Bönker (Bielefeld University, DE)

Sven Grampp (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)

Ferenc Hammer (ELTE University, HU)

Anikó Imre (University of Southern California, USA)

Lars Lundgren (Södertörn Univerity, SE)

Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough University, UK)

Dana Mustata (University of Groningen, NL)

Julia Obertreis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)

Irena Reifová (Charles University, CZ)
VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute 
for Sound and Vision in collaboration with 
Utrecht University, University of Luxembourg and 
Royal Holloway University of London. It is 
supported by the EUscreenXL project, the European 
Television History Network and the Netherlands 
Organization for Scientific Research.