Please join us for two afternoons of discussion which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. This will be relevant to students and scholars of media, radio, cultural studies and psychoanalysis.


Wednesday March 30th 2011 5-6.30pm, London Metropolitan University

Room LH 1-11, Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD.  Tube:  Highbury & Islington. Buses: 4,19,236

Radio Voice and Resonance

Anne Karpf - Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, former radio critic of The Guardian and author of The Human Voice. Anne will speak on ‘The sound of home? How the radio voice anchors, contains and sometimes pierces’

Aaron Balick - psychotherapist, academic, and media contributor. Director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and a private practitioner,  he also contributes to Radio One's Sunday Surgery. Aaron will speak on ‘The use of radio as a good object’ - how radio may resonate (or not) with the object relational world of the listener.

Tickets are free but limited seats are available so to reserve a place please email [log in to unmask]

Wednesday June 22nd 2011, 5-6.30pm. University of East London

Peter Lewis, David Hendy & Brett Kahr

Details to follow in due course. If you are interested in speaking at one of our events please get in touch. The seminars are produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey.

Hugh Ortega Breton

Sociology & Media Studies
University of Surrey
Room 18AD03
01483 682 829
Media & the Inner World<http://www.miwnet.org/>