DeeDee Halleck and Sylvia Harvey in Conversation

5 Feb 2026 7-8.30pm

Credit: Production of Paper Tiger Television, Paper Tiger at The Whitney: Youth and the Media; Escape From Tom and Jerry, 1985. Photo: Diane Neumaier.

Overview

This is an incredibly rare opportunity to hear two pioneering figures – DeeDee Halleck, founder of PTTV, and Sylvia Harvey, author of the crucial book May 68 and Film Culture (1978) – discuss radical television, in Europe and the United States, during the 1970s and 1980s.

BIOGRAPHIES

DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Sylvia Harvey, Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, completed her PhD in film studies at the University of California and published May ’68 and Film Culture in 1978. She has taught in British Higher Education, mainly in the north of England, and has published in the fields of broadcasting history, policy and regulation.

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