Pre-Conference: Radio, Refugees and Migrants: a workshop

13.00 hrs – 15.00 hrs, Utrecht University (room t.b.a.)

An invitation to share experience and discuss the role of community radio in this area of growing importance!
The discussion will begin with contributions from refugee broadcasters from several European countries including the Netherlands, and takes place as a pre-conference event before the start of the Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE) project’s final conference.
The workshop is free. We hope this will be useful platform for exchange between academics and practitioners.
Panel to include:
Representatives from OLON (Dutch Federation of Local Public Broadcasters)
Dan Cissokho, Station Manager of Peterborough Community Radio, UK
Larry. M. Macaulay, Founder/Editor in chief, Refugee Radio Network (Hamburg)
Judith Purkarthofer, President of the CMFE
Please reply to confirm a place to TRE partners Peter Lewis (London Metropolitan University,p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk) and Caroline Mitchell (University of Sunderland,caroline.mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk)
Attendees of The Radio Conference 2016 can also sign up when they register for the conference.
This session will be in English.