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SUMMARY:Listening to the enemy: Radio surveillance and punishment in the e
 arly Cold War - Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Universität Regensburg)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper seeks to examine the various levels of mutual surve
 illance involved in uncensored radio listening behind the Iron Curtain in 
 the early 1950s. Through the lens of Radio Free Europe listeners’ testim
 onies\, this paper aims to identify monitoring practices and forms of puni
 shment that revolved around the production\, transmission and consumption 
 of uncensored radio broadcasts in Central and Eastern Europe.\n\nDr Friede
 rike Kind-Kovacs is assistant professor of Southeast- and East European Hi
 story at the University of Regensburg. She is the author of Written Here\,
  Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (CEU
  Press\, 2014)\, a monograph for which she won the University of Southern 
 California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015. She also c
 o-edited Samizdat\, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational media during and af
 ter socialism. (Berghahn Books 2013). Currently she is working on her seco
 nd book project\, entitled Central Europe’s Starving Children: Humanitar
 ian Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War.\n
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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