CFP: Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26th June 2026

The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026.

The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories (IWBH) network (formed 2021) aims to create a global nexus for scholars researching women’s broadcasting histories.
The conference aims to explore key challenges and opportunities in researching women’s broadcasting histories, including the ‘limits of the archive’—the gaps and omissions in institutional and organisational archives regarding women’s work, the different national, linguistic and regional contexts in which women worked, and the value attributed to programming, labour and women audiences. We are inclusive in our definition of women.
We welcome papers and pre-constituted panels on any aspect of women’s broadcasting history. These include but are not limited to:

• Locating women in the archive
• Intersectional approaches/queering histories
• Women’s labour in broadcasting
• Women and textual representation/genres
• Women and broadcasting audiences
• Transnational, transmedial and entangled histories of women’s broadcasting
• Women’s programmes on radio and television

Proposals for 20-minute presentations must include 250-word abstract, 50-word biography of the author(s). Pre-constituted panels should also include a 250-word rationale statement.

The deadline for proposals is 31st December 2025. Please submit to iwbh2026@gmail.com*

The conference will be in person with the potential for some opportunities for remote presentation.

For any inquiries, please contact Dr Helen Warner: helen.warner@uea.ac.uk