Preliminary Programme

Showing: Oral History (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
D-1 ORA16 Anchoring Memory: Space, Place, Object
Room D
Network: Oral History Chair: Selma Leydesdorff
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Graciela De Garay : Building a persuasive professional public discourse to build the Mexican modernist city of the 20th century
Leyla Neyzi : Narrating Memory at Home and in the Street: Conflict over Identity in a Historic Neighborhood in Istanbul
Katrina Powell : Public and Private Memories of Displacement: Narrating Removal and Relocation


S-1 ORA01 Three Generations Telling and Re-telling the Second World War in Europe
Room S
Network: Oral History Chair: Mary Chamberlain
Organizers: - Discussant: Ugur Ungor
Nicole Burgermeister : Communicating memories of WWII in Switzerland
Olaf Jensen, Dr. Sabine Moller : Communicating memories of WWII in group-discussions across Europe
Claudia Lenz : Leaving the nation towards mankind? The transformation of the national master narrative on WWII in Norwegian families
Isabella Matauschek, Hans Marks : Victimisation in Dutch and Danish Narratives of the Second World War



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
R-2 ORA02 Remembrance and Cultural Patterns: Individual memory, official offers and collective patterns of memory of slave and forced labourers
Room R
Network: Oral History Chair: Alexander Von Plato
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Piotr Filipkowski : Narrating slave- and forced labour in Poland.
Gelinada Grinchenko : Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich: commemoration strategies
Christoph Thonfeld : Homecoming across Europe - former slave and forced labourers on the move



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
H-3 FAM03 International Families III. Contested Nationality
Room H
Networks: Family and Demography , Oral History Chair: Christopher H. Johnson
Organizer: Christopher H. Johnson Discussant: Nancy L. Green
Mary Chamberlain : Family, Identity and Nation: Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean, 1937-1967
Paloma Gay Y Blasco : Intercountry Adoption Patterns and the Creation of Novel Diaspora
Cyril Grange : The Marriages of Upper-Class Jewish Parisian Families: From a European to a National Matrimonial Market 1800-1940



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
F-4 ORA07 Healthcare: Personal and Organisational Narratives
Room F
Network: Oral History Chair: Graham Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Erzsebet Barat : Feminist Rethinking of Narratology for Life Story Reserach
Philippe Denis : Interviewing children in the context of AIDS. A critical reflection on the practice of the Memory Box Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Anu Kajamaa : “Employees narrated Memories as a valuable Resource in organizational Change and Development of Hospital Work



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
R-5 ORA08 Constructing the Body
Room R
Network: Oral History Chair: Hugo Manson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeff Friedman : "My Story is Like a Body": A Theoretical Framework for the Embodiment of Oral History Narratives
Silvia Ruschak : ”Tints of Western Style” – Female Body Perception in Transition. An Oral History Project in South Ghana
Saara Tuomaala : Scars - Embodied experience as a site of narration and history



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
D-6 ORA05 Repressed Memories, Memories and Repression I
Room D
Network: Oral History Chair: Nanci Adler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Rudolf Egger : That’s history. So what? Stories and structures in the social and poltical transformation processes in the life-courses of Kosovo people
Jim House : Leaving silence behind? Algerians and the memories of repression by French security forces in 1961
Constantin Iordachi : Colectivisation, Identity and Memory in a Village of Russian Old Believers, Dobrogea region
Selma Leydesdorff : Women of Srebrenica. Distance and identification in oral history



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
D-7 ORA06 Repressed Memories, Memories of Repression II
Room D
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nanci Adler : Repression's Endurance: Gulag Incarceration and Attitudes Toward the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
Karel Berkhoff : Dina Pronicheva’s Story of Surviving the Babi Yar Massacre in German, Jewish, Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian Records
Jennifer Orth : A Difficult Encounter: Liberators, Survivors, and the Opening of the Camps



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
T-10 ORA09 Social Memory and Constructing the Self
Room T
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gunilla Bjerén : Social memory and generations: forgetting (oral) history.
Daniela Koleva : Daughters' stories: gender, generation and memory
Mísia Reesink : Being the last. The memories of a Lakondê woman of her people and on becoming its sole real member
Graham Smith : Collective and individual memories: older women remembering in group and in individual interviews
Radmila Svarickova Slabakova : The "noble“ values of the descendants of Austro-Czech nobility – a trap of oral history?



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
M-11 ORA10 Memory and Testimony: Between Public and Private
Room M
Network: Oral History Chair: Leyla Neyzi
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ene Kõresaar : The politics of memory in a transition society: conflicting narrative templates in Estonian post-Soviet life stories
Hugo Manson, Terry Brotherstone & Owen Logan : Claiming the memory of the North Sea: enterprise, tragedy and representation
Miroslav Vanek : Political Elites and Dissidents in the years 1969 - 1989. Biographical interviews.
Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz : Prisoner to Her Own Memories: Repressed Memory vs. Official History



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
T-12 ORA11 Cultural Confrontations in Oral History: Comparative Perspectives in the American Context
Room T
Network: Oral History Chair: Marsha Siefert
Organizer: Deborah Kwon Discussants: -
Sagal Ali : Asylum Narratives and the Reconstruction of Collective Memory: The secondary migration of Somali Bantu to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Deborah Kwon : Confronting the Menories of a Past Generation through Oral History
Richelle Schrock : Gendered Narratives of Forced Migration: From Somalia to Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Nancy Yan : Memory, Pan-Ethnicity, and the Erosion of Cultural Animosities in Oral History



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
I-13 ORA12 Collective Memory and Identity
Room A-2
Network: Oral History Chair: Ene Kõresaar
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Kenneth J. Bindas : The people remember: collective memory and the depression era
Niina Lappalainen : Deindustrialization and Collective Identity
John Nassari : Understanding master narratives in Cyprus: reciting and opposing
Hanna Snellman : Finnish Immigrants' Legacy in Sweden



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
P-14 ORA13 Gender and Memory
Room P
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Timothy Ashplant : Embodiments of Class and Gender: Memory in Working-class Autobiographical Narratives
Prue Chamberlayne, Di Parkin : Women, sex and revolutionary politics in the 1970s
Karin Maria Schmidlechner : Austrian women after 1945. An oral history project.


T-14 ORA03 Conflicts: Emotions (Re)shaping Memories
Room T
Network: Oral History Chair: Karel Berkhoff
Organizers: - Discussant: Albert Lichtblau
Maria Ecker : The Shaping of Public Memory about Victims of World War II: An Austrian Case Study
Helga Embacher : Fighting for the “Right” Version of History: Waffen-SS, deserters and Jews
Ela Hornung : HIdden Narations: Deserters of the German Wehrmacht



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
F-15 ORA15 Communicating Memories, Understanding Narratives
Room F
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jaap Bos : Identity work of young adults in self-narratives
Valerie Kaneko Lucas : Remembring Japanese American Internment: The Challenges of Interpretation and Translation
Michelle Molina : Spiritual Selves: Mexican Women's Self-Discovery in the Late-Colonial Period
Peter Pehrson : Narrative Mneme in Unpublished Diaries by American Women


U-15 ORA17 Oral History and Visual Narratives
Room U
Network: Oral History Chair: Prue Chamberlayne
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Natalie Dykstra : Envisioning the Self: Marian ‘Clover’ Adams, Photograph Albums, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Marsha Siefert : Stalin from Below: Narrating Life Stories on Film
Roxana Waterson : Problematic Memories of War in Documentary Film and Theatre in Southeast Asia
Sally Wyatt, Nod Miller : Bags of Memory



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
C-16 ORA14 Memory between Fact and Fiction
Room C
Network: Oral History Chair: Timothy Ashplant
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Suzanne Bunkers : Memory and Memoir: Transformations in Stories of Survival
Aukje Kluge : Memory vs. Postmemory – Comic Narratives as Forms of Testimony
Attila Lajos : Raoul Wallenberg in documents and oral sources
Arvi Sepp : The Witness as Historian. Victor Klemperer and the Discourse of Memory


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