Archive for November, 2014

November 10, 2014

Chapter on South African TV and nation-building in new book at Routledge

My chapter ‘From “The Devil in the Black Box” to a Nation-Building Tool: Early TV in South Africa—A New Medium for a New Nation’ has been published in the book Modernization, Nation-Building and Television History edited by Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars at Routledge.9781138777958

November 9, 2014

Norhed week – Annual Meeting in Kampala and project dinner in Oslo

IMG_2524 IMG_2532 10604014_10152872316064314_3693856516253630151_o The project coordinators from Uganda, Nepal and Norway met with Norad’s representatives for a very fruitful Annual Meeting at the University of Makerere in Kampala on Tuesday 4 November. The following Friday the visiting PhD students from Uganda and Nepal and colleagues from Oslo and Akershus University college met for dinner in Oslo to celebrate the project’s positive start.