13.12. Radio Talk with Ido Ramati »Sounding Modern Hebrew«
We are happy to announce our fourth international guest this semester. Ido Ramati will talk about the role of sound media as phonograph, gramophone and radio in the development of today’s Hebrew. What happens when an ancient language meets modern media technologies?
Place: Limona/ Online
Time: 13th of December 2022 | 7pm
Ido Ramati’s presentation will explore the revitalization of Modern Hebrew since the end of the 19th century. Hebrew was not spoken as a day-to-day language since the second century CE back then. For this reason, many considered it a “dead” language. But by the end of the 19th century, as part of the endeavors to revive the language, it gradually started to be spoken again. It was not an easy task: debates on how Hebrew should sound, and what would be the best way to revive it characterized this process from the start.
In the process of reviving Hebrew sound media played a pivotal role. Ido Ramati will show how phonograph and gramophone records, as well as early radio broadcasts helped shaping the pronounciation and accentuation of today’s Hebrew.
Ido Ramati will be present online. There is a get together at Limona.
The Radio Talk will be held in English.
Ido Ramati studies the relations between media technologies and culture, concentrating on the role that technical apparatuses play in shaping the conditions for a range of social phenomena in traditional media as well as in digital culture. One of his main research areas is the influence of technique on Modern Hebrew. Ramati is currently a lecturer at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He was post-doctoral fellow at IKKM of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Ramati holds a PhD in Communication and Journalism & won several awards and grants.
The radio talks are the lecture series of the professorship »Experimental Radio«. They take place thematically alongside the ongoing courses of the semester and are open to the public.