Disseminating History (ies) in 2020
Gregorio Alonso, associate professor at the University of Leeds, will speak with three Spanish History communicators, well known both in conventional media and social media. Nieves Concostrina, Lidia García, and Mikel Herrán will share their experiences as knowledge disseminators and their relationship with their audiences. They will also deal with new media's challenges and opportunities to our knowledge and analysis of the past.
Nieves Concostrina is a journalist and writer with 35 experience in the press, radio, and television. She has devoted the last 20 years to discuss and share her passion for History as an indispensable tool to understanding current affairs without neglecting her trade as a journalist. She is the author of eight books and has been awarded the following journalism prizes: Ondas, Rey de España de Periodismo en Radio, Micrófono de Oro, Andalucía de Periodismo, and Villa de Madrid de Prensa.
Presentation: History and the media
With more than 700 programmes, the History podcast Cualquier tiempo pasado fue anterior is the longest-running in Spain. In this fifteen-year journey devoted to disseminating historical knowledge, I have been a witness and an active participant of the new ways to tackle the past, stimulating the critical awareness of the citizenry.
Mikel Herrán Subiñas is an Archaeology PhD student at the University of Leicester, researching domestic spaces, practices and the Islamisation of early medieval Iberia. He did his undergrad studies in Archaeology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and his MA at UCL Qatar in Archaeology of the Islamic world. Currently he combines his research work with outreach and dissemination through social media, mainly through Youtube and Twitter.
Presentation: Outreach as counter-hegemony
Internet and social media have allowed for information to be readily available to everyone, but also to the appearance of multitude of non-normative discourses, and a diversity of voices that can be heard. This context is a prime opportunity for Academia to shorten the distances with what is still largely perceived as an ivory tower. However in how to proceed, we are facing as well a number of limitations, and the weight of inherited discourses, that we need to explore.
Lidia García García (Montealegre del Castillo, 1989) is a PhD candidate at the History of Art department at the Universidad de Murcia. Her dissertation examines kitsch, the cañí imaginary, and gender in Spanish contemporary visual cultures. Her outreach activity focuses on copla, feminism and LGTB+ activism. She operates in social media under the nickname of ‘The Queer Cañí Bot’ and runs the podcast “¡Ay, campaneras!”.
Presentation: Glammed-up for outreach: copla and gender on the Internet
Academic research on some musical genres linked to popular culture, such as copla, is a relatively modern phenomenon. However, disseminating its findings in the digital world faces new challenges that go from familiarising new generations with folksong to the sometimes-uneasy dialogue between research and outreach. Adopting a gender perspective adds further obstacles to the reception of this discourse and its interactions.
The event will be hosted in Spanish.
