Alexander Badenoch
Alexander (Alec) Badenoch (1971) studied German and anthropology in his native US before moving to the UK to complete a PhD in modern languages at the University of Southampton on the role of the radio in the cultural reconstruction of West German after WWII. He joined the TIE project in 2004 for a post-doc that examined the intersections between European network building and ideas of European identity. The monograph based on this research, Voices in Ruins: West German radio across the 1945 divide (Palgrave, 2008) was awarded the IAMHIST prize for the best work in media and history 2007-8. He is editor, with Andreas Fickers, of Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave 2010), which presents some of the research surrounding this project and content editor of the Inventing Europe Virtual Exhibit, "Europe, Interrupted" (www.inventingeurope.eu). Since May of 2008, he is lecturer in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. He is spending the academic year 2010-2011 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study to work on the Making Europe book series, where he will be building a virtual exhibit and contributing to the volume on communication being written by Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset. He is a member of the Transmitting and Receiving Europe collaboration (TRANS) and his research interests include European broadcasting history, technology and territorial identities, narratives of war, reconstruction and memory, and constructions of home.
Alexander Badenoch
Utrecht University
Department of Media and Culture Studies
Room T1.10
Kromme Nieuwegracht 20
Kromme Nieuwegracht 20
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The Netherlands
+31302537999
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1 September 2010-30 June 2011:
Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
Meijboomlaan 1
2242PR Wassenaar
Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)70 512 2751
Fax Tel. +31 (0)70 511 7162
Books:
- Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers (eds.), Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).
- Sarah Moss and Alexander Badenoch, Chocolade: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2009).
- Alexander Badenoch, Voices in Ruins: German Radio Across the 1945 Divide (Palgrave MacMillan, September 2008).
Articles
- "Die europäische Wiedergeburt des Radios? Die Entwicklung und Arbeit des EBU Radioprogramkomitees", in : in: Rundfunk und Geschichte, 36, 1/2 (2010).
- Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers, "Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe" "Europe Materializing? Toward a transnational history of European infrastructures," in Badenoch and Fickers, eds., Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.1-34.
- "Myths of the European network: constructions of cohesion in infrastructure maps", in Badenoch and Fickers, eds., "Europe Materializing? Toward a transnational history of European infrastructures," Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.47-77.
- 'Touring between war and peace: imagining the "transcontinental Motorway", 1930-1950', in : in: The Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp.26-44.
- "Time Consuming: Women's Radio and the Reconstruction of National Narratives in Western Germany 19445-1948", German History 25:1 (January 2007).
- 2005 "Making Sunday What It Actually Should Be: Sunday Radio Programming and the Re-invention of Tradition in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949." The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 25:4 (October 2005).
- 2005 “More ‘Helau’ than ‘Hummel-Hummel’? Cultural landscapes in the programme of the NWDR Cologne 1945-1949” in: Briel, Holger / Fehringer, Carol (eds.), Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.197-215
Online
- “Europe, Interrupted” Virtual Exhibit, "www.inventingeurope.eu "
Invited lectures, conference papers and short works (recent selection)
- “What’s the (European) story? Making sense of the digital heritage environment” Keynote lecture for the First EUscreen International Conference on Content Selection Policy and Contextualisation, Rome 7-8 October 2010.
- "Between rock and roll and a hard place: 'pirate' radio and the problems of territory Cold War Europe" Paper presented to the Tensions of Europe Conference, Sofia 18 June 2010.
- "Familiar voices: radio and the renegotiation of intimacy in postwar Germany" Media and Humanities seminar, Lincoln University, 21 April 2010.
- "The Love of Chocolate and the Spirit of Christmas" Invited Lecture, Not Just for Christmas workshop Glasgow, 19 December 2009.
- Keynote articles "EBU/OIRT" and "Domestication" for European television history portal Video Active (www.videoactive.eu), 2009.
- (with Vincent Lagendijk) "Myths of Kaprun: material visions of Austria and Europe" Paper presented to "European Identity and the Legacy of the Second World War 1930-1970" Conference, Amsterdam, 11 December 2007.
- (with J.W. Schot, R. Broft, I. van der Heijden, and M. Van der Heijden), "Co-ordinating visions: Trans-European Networks and narratives of European integration" Paper presented to the "Tensions of Europe" Conference, Rotterdam, 7-9 June 2007.
