The midway assessment is organised in two parts, and starts with a two-hour public seminar, followed by a closed meeting.
The purpose of the midway assessment is to evaluate the progress of the PhD project at a point when it is still possible to make small or more substantial changes.
Programme:
10:15 - 10:40 Welcome, and Presentation by Candidate Ieva Gudaitytè
10:45 - 11:45 Comments by, and discussion with Tom Western
11:45 - 12:00 Plenary discussion with the public
Following the public event, there will be a closed meeting between the candidate, invited opponent, and supervisors (12:00 - 12:30).
Summary:
Aural imaginations of alternative music radio in Ukraine (and beyond)
This thesis, based on interviews and other fieldwork data from independent online music radio communities in Ukraine and several neighbouring countries, looks at how alternative sound media practices help to make sense of everyday civilian life since Russia’s full-scale invasion. I argue for radio stations and their studios as virtual and physical spaces for collective sense-making, where cultural and political imaginaries are played with and tested, enabling emergent forms of aural citizenship, and thus exposing ways people listen and imagine beyond – and against – the immediate existential cultural and material threats.