Found in Translation: Transnational Media and the National Archive

Op 1 december geeft geliefd Honoursdocent Alec Badenoch zijn inaugurele rede als hoogleraar aan de VU in Amsterdam. Zijn oratie zal in het teken staan van Beeld en Geluid in de geschiedenis, tevens de naam van mr. Badenoch’s toekomstige leerstoel.

Over zijn oratie:

“Radio and television have long stood in the service of the nation, as institutions, technology, and as purveyors of shared moments great and small. National audiovisual archives can serve a similar role, especially in the digital age as their content becomes available for sharing, re-use and re-collection as national memory. But from their earliest days, these media have also involved flows of people, things, and ideas beyond national borders, often translating them for domestic use. Now, as archive content is ‘translated’ from the archive into the digital sphere, it enters again into transnational circulation. Taking a transnational view of the archive allows us to see how these past and present processes of circulation and translation can speak to each other. Looking at rich examples from Sound and Vision’s collection, we see how by looking more closely at the technical and cultural points of translation open up our view of the nation and the world.”