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Keir Wotherspoon

I am a historian of media, society and culture working at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. I have recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne investigating the social and media movements of the United States in the 1960s. I am interested in how social and political actors and movements have intersected with mass mediated, networked and digital technologies, often making historically decisive contributions to how we think about the media environment and what constitutes the ‘public’. In studying the period since World War II, I have deployed intermedial and genealogical methodologies in my historical research to understand the ways in which media experiments moved fluidly between communications forms. I’m interested in the translations that occur in this process as well as the reoccurrence of themes, ideas and practices. My dissertation, ‘Convergence and Divergence: The Radical Origins of the Network Revolution and Its Transformation of the Public Sphere’ examines the social, cultural and intellectual ruptures that reordered how Americans thought about what made mass media technologies democratic, orienting cultural attitudes and policy towards a new set of understandings about distributed networked communications.

I began my teaching career the University of Melbourne, where I completed my PhD in 2017 under the supervision of Professor David Goodman and Assoc Professor Ara Keys. My postgraduate study was undertaken in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, where I taught subjects in U.S. and global history as well Arts faculty foundational subjects in democracy studies and gender studies. I hold a BA Honours (first class) in History from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Before joining CIM, I was a Research Officer at La Trobe University, Australia (2013 -2016) and a Post Doctoral Research Associate at King’s College, London (2017-2018). I began my career as a historical researcher at the Waitangi Tribunal Research Unit in New Zealand.

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Papers by Keir Wotherspoon

Research paper thumbnail of "Have you any Uni. Archives?": Frank Strahan and the Melbourne Historical Journal Archives

Research paper thumbnail of "Adrift in the World": Postgraduate Life and the MHJ in the Twenty-First Century

Research paper thumbnail of '"A Controversy About Ideas Is Again In The Air": The Postgraduate Revival of The Printed Word, 1981-1989'

Research paper thumbnail of History From Below: The first decade of the Melbourne Historical Journal

Book Reviews by Keir Wotherspoon

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World 1783-1939

Conference Presentations by Keir Wotherspoon

Research paper thumbnail of “‘We will not recover from the change’: Network Democracy and the Legacy of the Sixties Underground Press.” 16-18 June 2017, HOTCUS 2017 Annual Conference, University College, University of Dublin.

Research paper thumbnail of “‘Post-political’: The Sixties and the Networked Communications Revolution.” 2 June 2017, Voices of Dissent Conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

PROGRAMME 8.45-9.00 Registration 9.00-10.30 Panel 1: Voices of dissent and the anti-Vietnam War m... more PROGRAMME 8.45-9.00 Registration 9.00-10.30 Panel 1: Voices of dissent and the anti-Vietnam War movement (Chair: Mitchell Robertson) Lauren Mottle (University of Leeds), "We resist on the grounds that we aren't citizens": Black draft resistance, the citizen-soldier and the whiteness of American citizenship Sophie Roberts (Northumbria University), The real problem is to think of anything new to do, short of bombing the White House: Peggy Duff and the transnational movement against the Vietnam War Vincent Chabany (Université Paris-Sorbonne), "We were that generation called silent": Joan Didion and the cultural depiction and memory of protest movement Panel 2: Voices of dissent in popular and visual culture (Chair: Karen Heath) Sage Goodwin (University of Oxford), "The salt and pepper all mixed together": Rock'n'Roll, race relations and resistance Amanda Dalla Villa Adams (Virginia Commonwealth University), Sounding an alarm: the ethical implication of the image Craig Peariso (Boise State University), Bleed him instead: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the politics of race and labor 12.15-12.30 Lunch buffet available 12.30-1.30 Keynote address: Simon Hall (University of Leeds) The anti-Vietnam War movement: a successful failure 1.30-3.00 Panel 3: Voices of dissent and the legacy of the Sixties

Talks by Keir Wotherspoon

Research paper thumbnail of “Networked histories,” Dirt 2016, first podcast 30 October 2016

Research paper thumbnail of “The Radical Origins of the Network Revolution and its Transformation of the Public Sphere.” 18 December 2014, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Australia

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World 1783-1939

Research paper thumbnail of “‘We will not recover from the change’: Network Democracy and the Legacy of the Sixties Underground Press.” 16-18 June 2017, HOTCUS 2017 Annual Conference, University College, University of Dublin.

Research paper thumbnail of “‘Post-political’: The Sixties and the Networked Communications Revolution.” 2 June 2017, Voices of Dissent Conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

PROGRAMME 8.45-9.00 Registration 9.00-10.30 Panel 1: Voices of dissent and the anti-Vietnam War m... more PROGRAMME 8.45-9.00 Registration 9.00-10.30 Panel 1: Voices of dissent and the anti-Vietnam War movement (Chair: Mitchell Robertson) Lauren Mottle (University of Leeds), "We resist on the grounds that we aren't citizens": Black draft resistance, the citizen-soldier and the whiteness of American citizenship Sophie Roberts (Northumbria University), The real problem is to think of anything new to do, short of bombing the White House: Peggy Duff and the transnational movement against the Vietnam War Vincent Chabany (Université Paris-Sorbonne), "We were that generation called silent": Joan Didion and the cultural depiction and memory of protest movement Panel 2: Voices of dissent in popular and visual culture (Chair: Karen Heath) Sage Goodwin (University of Oxford), "The salt and pepper all mixed together": Rock'n'Roll, race relations and resistance Amanda Dalla Villa Adams (Virginia Commonwealth University), Sounding an alarm: the ethical implication of the image Craig Peariso (Boise State University), Bleed him instead: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the politics of race and labor 12.15-12.30 Lunch buffet available 12.30-1.30 Keynote address: Simon Hall (University of Leeds) The anti-Vietnam War movement: a successful failure 1.30-3.00 Panel 3: Voices of dissent and the legacy of the Sixties

Research paper thumbnail of “Networked histories,” Dirt 2016, first podcast 30 October 2016

Research paper thumbnail of “The Radical Origins of the Network Revolution and its Transformation of the Public Sphere.” 18 December 2014, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Australia

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