When: February 28, 2019

Where: ART-AHH 2.300 North Meeting Room, Australian Hearing Hub Building, 16 University Avenue, MQ Campus.

Time: 2pm.  Note limited places so RSVP to CMH by Feb 25.

Assoc Prof. and visiting scholar Marie Cronqvist, Lund University, Sweden.

After this presentation at 3pm there will be time for discussion, news and networking. Refreshments will also be served after the event.

Marie Cronqvist: is an Associate Professor in Journalism and Media History at Lund University in Sweden. She has done extensive research on Swedish and European 20th century culture and media, civil defense propaganda, transnational broadcasting and literary journalism. Since 2013, she is the main co-ordinator of the Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) network. She has been a guest researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Currently, she holds a three-year visiting scholarship at the Centre for Media History in Bournemouth, UK. Since 2016 she is a proud honorary associate of the CMH in Sydney.

Marie's recent publications include War Remains: Mediations of Suffering and Death in the Era of the World Wars (2018); "Entangled Media Histories: The Value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media History", co-author Christoph Hilgert, in Media History (2017); and "Foreign correspondents in the Cold War: The Politics and Everyday Life of East German Journalists in the Nordic Countries in the mid 1970s", co-author Sune Bechmann Pedersen, forthcoming in Media History (2019).