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 between broadcasting during World War II and the Cold War; Programming and audiences;
Radio technologies, mass culture, and consumption; Representations of radio in film and on stage;
Transition from radio to television;
German radio and recent theories of listening (J.-L. Nancy and others) German radios in the European and international context.

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