Conference and Papers

International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

A conference to evaluate 75 years of BBC overseas broadcasting
18-19 December 2007, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Conference Transcripts

PDF Plenary Session 1 - Welcome and The BBC Voice and Impartiality?
PDF Plenary Session 2 - Global Vision: The World Service in the 21st Century - Interview with Nigel Chapman, Director, BBCWS
PDF Plenary Session 3 -Transnational Imagination and Geo-political Realities at the BBC World Service - Roundtable with BBCWS Heads of Regions
PDF Plenary Session 4 - New Politics, New Media, New Diplomacy
PDF Plenary Session 5 - Poetic Voices, Writers, Producers - Inside the World Service

PDF Conference Report - Jason Toynbee (PDF document, 15 KB)

PDF Arguing About Religion: 'Have Your Say' Message Boards as a Diasporic Contact Zone and Global Public Sphere - David Herbert (PDF document, 102 KB)

PDF The BBC World Service and the African Diasporas: a Case Study of 'Africa Have Your Say' and Online Interactivity - Olatunji Ogunyemi (PDF document, 82 KB)

PDF BBCWS, Connectivity and the Pakistani Diaspora - Muhammad Zaman and Bakht Rawan (PDF document, 65 KB)

PDF BBC World Service Trust: Journalism & Society - Simon Derry (PDF document, 39 KB)

PDF Calling the West Indies: the BBC World Service and Caribbean Voices - Darrell Newton (Word document, 190 KB)

PDF The Empire Service: the voice, the discourse of the master and ventriloquism - Andrew Hill (Word document, 143 KB)

PDF History of the BBC Persian Service 1941-1979 - Massoumeh Torfeh (PDF document, 171 KB)

PDF "I Get a Real Kick Out of Big Ben": BBC Versions of Britishness of the Empire and World Service, 1931-1967 - Emma Robertson (PDF document, 48 KB)

PDF International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange - Andrew Taussig (PDF document, 378b)

PDF Manufacturing consensus and telling stories - Bill Hayton (PDF document, 65 KB)

PDF Mapping Digital Diasporas @ BBC World Service - Matilda Andersson and Marie Gillespie (PDF document, 456 KB)

PDF Media Practices in Turkish Audiences: Generation-specific Attitudes toward Credibility and Intercultural Communication of the BBC WS - Arnd-Michael Nohl (PDF document, 28 KB)

PDF New Media and the New Public Diplomacy - Philip Seib (PDF document, 36 KB)

PDF Reporting the World Back to Itself - Alexa Robertson (PDF document, 1.8 MB)

PDF Soap Opera, Social Change and the BBC World Service - Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Lizz Frost (PDF document, 65 KB)

PDF The Voice of the BBC World Service: Sport and Impartiality (PDF document, 193 KB)

PDF World Music for a World Service - Jason Toynbee and Farida Vis (PDF document, 123 KB)

PDF You Lose Some, You Win Some - 1989 and After - Andrew Taussig (PDF document, 356 KB)