Serdecznie zapraszamy na seminarium pt. A Spanish Radio Free Europe? Transnational reflections on the use of radio as a weapon of communication in Cold War Europe and the role of Eastern European émigrés in giving the radio a voice, które poprowadzi
Prof. Sarah Lemmen z Uniwersytetu Complutense w Madrycie,
w ramach projektu NextGenPhDs NAWA STER – Umiędzynarodowienie szkół doktorskich
Seminarium odbędzie się 4 czerwca 2024 r. o godzinie 14.00 w Instytucie Historii PAN (Rynek St. Miasta 31, Sala Kościuszkowska)
On January 11, 1949, the Spanish national broadcasting service Radio Nacional de España (RNE) began airing on short wave its first program in the Polish language with what would become its signature phrase, “Tu Radio Nacional de España”, in a combination of Polish and Spanish. By the end of the year, the same phrase could be heard in five other Eastern European languages, namely in Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Ukrainian, as well as in Russian. These programs were part of the “radio wars” for the hearts and minds of the ever-growing number of listeners across the Iron Curtain in the ensuing Cold War alongside more well-known foreign language broadcasts such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) or the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
In this seminar we will discuss, among others, the role of Francoist Spain in postwar Europe, why RNE is relevant to understanding the Cold War, and how the field of transnational history changes the understanding of European history.
Sarah Lemmen has PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Vienna (Austria). She is currently Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the contemporary era and its relations with Western Europe and the global world. After several researches on travel and tourism history culminating in a doctoral thesis on Czech travel and travelers in Africa, Asia and Latin America between 1890 and 1938 (awarded the Grete-Mostny-Preis of the University of Vienna), she has expanded her line of work in the field of global and transnational history with studies on exile and migration and the cultural history of the Cold War. His publications include a monograph „Traveling Czechs. Representations of the Non-European World and National Identity in Central Europe (1890-1938)” (Wien: Böhlau, 2018; in German), the co-edited volume „Orientalisms in Central and Eastern Europe” (Bielefeld: transcript, 2014; in German), and dossiers in the journals European Review of History (23/4 2016) and International Journal of Maritime History (33/1 2021).
Seminarium będzie prowadzone w języku angielskim.
Fot. za: https://www.ucm.es/udcontemporanea/lemmen,-sarah
