MSG: Who want to brown bag with Laura Kunreuther, Scholar on FM radio in Nepal?

[Mack Hagood]

Hi Soundies,

Like many of you, I just learned that Laura Kunreuther, an ethnographer who works on Nepalese radio, will be giving a lecture at CMCL on Friday, Feb. 11 at 4pm (details below). Would you be interested in attending a brown bag with her around noon that day if I can set it up? 

This is the second time an anthropologist working in sound media has come to CMCL this academic year. When Louise Meintjes came, there was a CMCL brown bag and I was the only one there for half of it. We had a great discussion and I kept thinking that it should have been an MSG event.

So, let me know if you're interested. If I get at least five takers, I'll move forward.

Best,

Mack

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The Department of Communication and Culture's
New Directions in the Ethnographies of Media and Performance Speakers
Series welcomes

Professor LAURA KUNREUTHER

Date: Friday February 11, 4=5 p.m.
800 East 3rd Street, Classroom Office Building -- Room 100

TITLE:
'My Story, My Song': Public Intimacy, Voice, and Writing on FM radio in Nepal

ABSTRACT:
The commercial FM radio was established in 1996 in Nepal, six years
after the re-establishment of democracy, and the media quickly became a
symbol of democratic 'free speech'.  The expression of intimate and
personal matters on FM radio broadcasts immediately marked the
commercial radio's distinction from state-run Radio Nepal. This paper
explores expressions of intimacy portrayed on FM radio programs, and
the connection of public intimacy to ideologies of the voice. With a
focus on one program called 'My Story, My Song', I ask how FM
broadcasts of personal and intimate matters relates to political
aspirations of democratic participation and transparency.  The answer,
I believe, can be found in exploring the figure of voice that
flourished with democracy and with the establishment of FM radio: that
is, the voice as a metaphor of consciousness, agency, and collective
desire and the voice as a medium of sound that conveys emotion,
immediacy, and presence.

Laura Kunreuther is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard
College.  She has been doing research in Nepal since the early 1990s,
and focuses on the relation between ideologies of the voice, mediation,
and subjectivity, particularly since the democracy movement of 1990.  
She is currently finishing her book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy
and Mediation in Kathmandu, and has published articles in several
journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology,
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

*This lecture series aims to bring to IU junior scholars whose work
lies at the
intersection of CMCL's three areas, and whose work is strongly informed by an
ethnographic perspective.*


--
Susan Lepselter
Assistant Professor
Communication and Culture / American Studies
800 East 3rd Street
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405

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Mack Hagood

PhD Student, Associate Instructor

Department of Communication and Culture

Indiana University
800 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

U.S.A.