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Legay, Dr. Richard

Position at ABI:
E-mail:
richard.legay [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49-(0)761-88878-34
Areas of research:
Restitution of cultural heritage, Public History, Memory politics
Regional focus:
Africa, Europe
Professional experience:
2021–2022
Lecturer & postdoctoral researcher (Teach@Tübingen Fellow) at the Institut für Geschichtsdidaktik und Public History, Universität Tübingen
2020–2021
Postdoctoral researcher at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg. Curator of the Popkult60 virtual exhibition (URL: https://popkult60.eu/e/en/)
2016–2020
Doctoral researcher & lecturer at the C²DH (Centre for Contemporary & Digital History), University of Luxembourg
2016
Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Dublin (Ireland)
2014–2015
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (Luxembourg)
Education:
2016–2020
PhD in History: “Commercial Radio Stations and their Dispositif. Transnational and Intermedial Perspectives on Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1 in the Long Sixties”. Directed by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Centre for Contemporary & Digital History, University of Luxembourg
2015–2016
M.Phil in Public History & Cultural Heritage, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
2013–2015
Master in Contemporary European History, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
2010–2013
Bachelor in History & Bachelor in Geography, Université de Lorraine (France)
Extended CV Legay (148.3 KB)

Vers un nouveau paradigme franco-allemand pour la mémoire du passé colonial ? Une approche comparative à travers l’exemple de la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain, Frankreich-Zentrum, University of Freiburg, 2024-2025.

Entangled narratives of restitution between Europe & Africa in audiovisual archives, FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Grant of the International Federation for Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA), 2024.

Restitution beyond the objects: rethinking the return of African cultural heritage as a decolonial issue’, Early-career tandem research by the De/Coloniality Now Initiative, University of Freiburg, 2023-2024, Z. M. Shallangwa (Nigeria) & R. Ohene-Asah (Ghana).

Council Member of IAMHIST, the International Association for Media & History

Member of the Collectif Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche de Provenances

Associated Postdoc at GRK 2571 ‘Empires: Dynamic Transformation Temporality and Postimperial Orders’, University of Freiburg

Member at Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) at the University of Freiburg

Member of GROC, the Groupe de Recherches sur les Ordres Coloniaux

Member of EMHIS, the Entangled Media Histories research network

Associated Postdoc at IFPH, the International Federation for Public History, Member Tri-national graduate school 'L’histoire internationale par l’interdisciplinarité' (Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, Paris)

Richard Legay, The Cultural Histories of Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1: Broadcasting Across Europe, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) (DOI).

Richard Legay & Andreas Mehler, ‘Frankreich und Deutschland im Umgang mit ihrer kolonialen Vergangenheit in Afrika: vergleichende Erinnerungspolitik’, in R. Asch, P. Eich & E. Piller (eds.), Imperien - Temporalität, Visualisierungen und post-imperiale Ordnungen (Freiburg: Freiburger Imperienforschung GRK 2571, 2024), pp. 175-195.

[upcoming, 2024] Georgina Laragy, Richard Legay, Ciaran O'Neill & Hannah Smyth (eds.), Public History in a Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice (Berlin: De Gruyter).

Richard Legay, ‘La nuit où les postes périphériques firent front commun : une expérience radiophonique en stéréophonie entre RTL et Europe n°1 à la fin des années 60’, RadioMorphoses (11, 2024) (DOI).

Richard Legay, review on ‘Carolyn Birdsall, Radiophilia, London 2023’, Technology & Culture (65:3, 2024), pp. 1037-1038

Richard Legay, ‘Radio Luxembourg y Europe n°1 en la década de 1960: actores transnacionales e intermediales por antonomasia’, RIHC. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación (21, 2023), pp. 75-89 (DOI)

Richard Legay & Jessica Burton, ‘From the Comic Strips to the Airwaves. The short-lived experiment of Le Feu de Camp du Dimanche Matin on Europe n°1’, Media History (29:2, 2023), pp. 226-239 (DOI)

Richard Legay, ‘Studying 1960s commercial radio’, in K. McDonald & H. Chignell (eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 367-382

Richard Legay, review on ‘A. Gouaffo, C. Akieudji & D. D. Mellie (eds.), Mémoire, Paix et Développement en Afrique: Réflexions autour d’une éthique de la souvenance en contexte post-colonial, Yaoundé 2022’,
ALMA Reviews (02.06.2023, URL)

[upcoming, 2025] Richard Legay, ‘Transnational Radio Broadcasting’, in M. Broersma, D. Reddin van Tuyll, M. O’Brien & F. Harbers (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transnational Journalism History (London: Routledge)

List of Publications Legay (103.83 KB)