Suzanne Lommers
Suzanne Lommers works for the Foundation for the History of Technology. She is one of the web editors of the Inventing Europe Virtual Exhibit and also takes care of the communications side of this project. She is particularly interested in the connection the Virtual Exhibit makes between cultural heritage collections, science, and a broader general audience. Moreover, she is currently finalizing her dissertation Europe – On Air: Broadcasting Projects during the Interwar Years (forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press) at the section of Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology. She holds an MSc degree in Economic and Historical Studies from Utrecht University (2003) for which she spent half a year at the Università degli Studi di Bologna in Italy. After her masters she has worked as Assistant Planning and Purchase Manager at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht and as a junior researcher at the Research Institute for Culture and History, Utrecht University, on the history of the Royal Dutch Shell.
Suzanne is a member of the Tensions of Europe network.
She speaks Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish, French and a little bit of German. She reads Danish.
Suzanne Lommers
IPO 1.15
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40-2473461
s [dot] b [dot] lommers [at] tue [dot] nl
Publications
Book chapters:
(with Andreas Fickers), ‘Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe', in: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 225-251.
Articles:
(with Léonard Laborie), "Les concerts européens à la radio dans l'entre-deux-guerres : Mise en ondes d'une métaphore diplomatique?", in Le Temps des Médias 11 (2008), special issue "Espaces européens et transferts culturels", 110-125.
(with Alexander Badenoch), EBU Archives: The other 'public service', Diffusion online, EBU online publication, June 2006,
http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/____online_26_e_archives-uer_tcm6-45878.pdf
Papers:
'Radio and Europe's Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Concerts Européens, 1925-1940', Paper to be presented at the Mapping European Culture Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 4-6 2009.
'Europe's Broadcasters Between the Wars: A Focus on East-West Relations', Paper Presented at the Inventing Europe EUROTRANS Workshop Lisbon, 10-11 October 2008.
(with Andreas Fickers), Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe, Paper presented at the Third Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 7-10 June 2007.
