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Lilian Radovac, PhD




About
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I’m a disability-identified writer, scholar and documentarist and the founder of the Alternative Toronto digital archive project. As a whole, my work explores the cultures and textures of cities, with a focus on memory, sound and social movements.

I’m currently based at the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op in New Toronto and work as Communications Director at the Media Arts Network of Ontario. I previously taught at McGill University and the University of Toronto and was a Visiting Scholar at NYU in New York City, where I fell in love with community archives and public history.

I’m working on a new version of this website but am keeping this one updated for now. Feel free to get in touch.


Email: lilian [dot] radovac [at] gmail [dot] com
Bluesky: @lilianradovac
LinkedIn: lilian-radovac
Cover photo: Lea Grahovac

Cover image description: A white woman with short dark hair and black-framed glasses stands in front of a concrete wall stained with residual traces of graffiti.


RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS

Drawing of a group of people ferrying archival materials on a makeshift rowboat, under a flag that reads Cabbagetown News Riverdale.
“Food First, Then Archives: Precarity and Community Memory.” With Simon Vickers. Active History, July 7, 2021.

Black Wedge Tour poster with a black triangle and the names Mecca Normal, Peter Plate, Mourning Sickness, Rhythm Activism and Bryan James.
“Re/mediating the Archive: Building Alternative Toronto.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 32:1 (Winter 2018): 97-110.
A lapel button with a raised fist and the words Occupy Wall Street.
“Mic Check: Occupy Wall Street and the Space of Audition.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11:1 (January 2014): 34-41.
A police helicopter circling above a line of protesters under a dark grey sky.
“Agitato.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 28 (Fall 2012): 223-224.
A drawing of Father Knickerbocker, with text: Quiet Please: Mayor LaGuardia's Noise Abatement Committee.
“The ‘War on Noise’: Sound and Space in La Guardia’s New York.” American Quarterly 63:3 (September 2011): 733-760.
Reprinted in: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies. Eds. Kara Keeling and Josh Kun, 289-316. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.



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A.C.T. for Disarmament benefit
Apocalypse Club, 1991