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Continue reading →: Can I get a witness? On David Thomas and the end of the roadThis last week has seen the death of David Thomas, best known as founder and singer of Pere Ubu, but also part of any number of collaborations. I could tell you why he’s great, but that would be a VERY long post and anyone can do that. A lot of…
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Continue reading →: Media and Cultural studies are ordinaryThe post below is (p)re-printed with kind permission from the Utrecht student media and culture journal BLIK, where it will appear in slightly altered form as the introduction to a special issue comprising the essays of first-year students in my class on the Humanities Honours Programme. The HHP is designed…
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Continue reading →: the time of poetryGrief is like weather, and like seasons: it is not one thing, but a relation of things. Weather is not just the chill of the air, or the density of cloud and rain, but also the colours their light reveals or conceals, the qualities of our clothes revealed by the…
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Continue reading →: passing through: things and stuffSomewhat against my wishes, I just received a new phone. I had defiantly had my old one repaired three times, but it was getting more and more temperamental, so rather than wait for it to die completely (as a single parent, I feel the need to be reachable at all…
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Continue reading →: on joyWith the arrival of Spring, and a string of days of sunshine, I have been experiencing and reflecting – being a good academic – on joy. Being a less good academic, I have not been doing much reading. But I have been writing: to a friend with long Covid (I’ve…
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Continue reading →: personal and professional: Kathy MacDonaldThis week, what I suggested might be my most important piece of writing this year came out: a profile of Katharine MacDonald, a palaeolithic archaeologist, co-authored with Professor Wil Roebroeks, for the site devoted to the histories of women in ‘the digging sciences’: Trowelblazers. She was no doubt a pioneering…
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Continue reading →: Onder Mediadoctoren podcast: the intersections of women, radio, and history
Last Monday, I went up to Amsterdam to record the 149th (!) episode of one of the longest-running podcasts in the Netherlands, Onder Mediadoctoren (Among/between Media Doctors), hosted by Linda Duits and Vincent Crone (both of whom I know from The Best University in the Netherlands) and devoted, appropriately, to…
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Continue reading →: New online exhibition: Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism & The Media
(this is a lightly re-worked cross-post from Women’s Radio in Europe) Very excited that today the German Historical Institute has opened a new online exhibition: Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism & The Media Quoting the GHI’s announcement: The exhibition Forms, Voices, Networks explores the intersections between the growth of mass media and women’s…
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Continue reading →: Love: there’s no fee (the Jazz Butcher in memoriam)
I have been very sad these last days to hear of, and think of, the sudden passing of Patrick Guy Sibley Huntrods AKA Pat Fish – The Jazz Butcher. The Jazz Butcher was an intricate part of my college years and beyond. Celebrations of drunkenness and dissolution, but also a…
Alec
I’m a media historian, with special interests in broadcasting, transnational processes and cultures, archives, women’s history and a few other things. I am Assistant Professor for Media and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I am also a migrant, a dad, a Gen-Xer, and a widower. Sometimes I write about those things, too.
Alec Badenoch 