Preliminary Programme

Showing: Oral History (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
E-2 ORA01 Family and intergenerational transmission of stories
Cave E
Network: Oral History Chair: Mary Chamberlain
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Christien Brinkgreve : Involvement, Truth, Detachment: The Narrative of My Mother.
Alena Kozlova : The influence of traumatic expierience of the family history on female fate of the second generation
Patricie Kubackova : Between us is (not only) an ocean – biographical narrations of Czech women living in the USA. (A research based on a method of oral history and conversation analysis.)


F-2 ORA21 Mauthausen in Transnational Memories and Narrations
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Oral History Chair: Gerhard Botz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Piotr Filipkowski : Polish Mauthausen Narratives across Time and Context
Regina Fritz : Expressions of Euphemism in Narratives of Hungarian Holocaust Survivors
Alexander Prenninger : The Verbalization of Experiences in Context Specific Narratives
Irina Scherbakowa : The Memories’ hard labor
Karin Stoegner : Life Story Interviews and the „Truth of Memory” in the Perspective of Walter Benjamin



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
E-3 ORA03 Gender and its influence on remembrance, the oral-history process, the interviewer, and the interviewee
Cave E
Networks: Oral History , Women and Gender Chair: Sally Alexander
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Helga Amesberger : Doing Gender within Oral History
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : Women in North Sea Oil
Sónia Ferreira : “Women’s voice place” – memory, gender and oral history
Pia Olsson : "Only the grove whores whistle." Women's sexuality pictured in questionnaire material



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
W-4 ORA10 Contested Pasts
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Ene Kõresaar
Organizers: - Discussants: -
John Cox : “Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany”
Anselma Gallinat : The social production of ‘oral history’?
Sabine Kittel : Today’s memories of the socialist Past : Interviews with employees of an educational institution in eastern Germany.
Niina Lappalainen : "There was no Civil War in this village." The referential way of communication.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
L-5 LAT05 Political Representations of the Recent Past. Some Debates in Latin America
Room 5.1
Networks: Latin America , Oral History , Theory Chair: Michiel Baud
Organizers: - Discussant: Michiel Baud
Eugenia Allier Montaño : Political appropriations of the past. The recent past in the nomenclature of Montevideo, Uruguay (1985-2004)
Silvia Dutrénit : Views on the Uruguay Peace Commission
María Inés Mudrovcic : Historical Representation and Sacred Memory
Nora Rabotnikof : Between Mith and Memory: the continuity of political experience



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
L-6 ORA08 Interviews over time: data interpretation
Room 5.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sidonia Grama : Social Memory as Palimpsest: Narrative Genres on the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Ene Kõresaar, Tiiu Jaago : The “truth of continuity” in Estonian oral history and life story narratives: negotiating the meaning of the 20th century
Miroslav Vanek : Memories behind the machines



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
I-7 ORA06 Fantasy, dreams, fact and fiction
Room 2.1
Networks: Culture , Oral History Chair: Eveline Buchheim
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Molly Andrews : Narratives: Confronting the unbelievable and the unknown
Hans de Vries : "The February strike 1941": a fine example of a well-balanced handling of written and oral sources
Ulla-Maija Peltonen : Testimony and negotiating the Truth of Memory
Célia Pratas Mantinha : Franz Kafka - An Enigmatic Way of Being Told



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
W-8 ORA05 Testimony, memory, memorials
Room 2.12
Network: Oral History Chair: Nanci Adler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eva Bruecker : Negotiating the Truth of Memory: Oral History and the difficulties of public presentations
James Mark : Using Victim Biographies: Sites of Terror in Central-Eastern Europe
Gulie Ne'eman Arad : Holocaust Diaries and Memoirs: A Challenge for Historians
Nikolai Vukov : The Rewriting of the Past in a Ritual Setting: Public Commemorations in Post-Socialist Bulgaria



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
N-10 NMORA Network meeting: Oral History
Room 6.1
Network: Oral History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
X-11 ORA18 Crisis and Social Action in the Americas: Oral Histories and Alternative Memories
Room 2.13
Network: Oral History Chair: Temma Kaplan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ana Kapelusz-Poppi : The Construction of the New Children's Hospital in Buenos Argentina (1955-85) Personal and Professional Memories
Margaret Power : “’We Opposed the September 11, 1973, Coup in Chile:’
Andor Skotnes : Racial and Class Struggles in Baltimore, USA, during World War II: Alternative Memories



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
G-12 ORA20 Remembrances of Slave and Forced Labourers in Different Countries. An International Comparison
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Oral History Chair: Alexander Von Plato
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gelinada Grinchenko : Ukrainian Ostarbeiters of the Third Reich: Remembering Patterns on Forced Labour in Nazi Germany (Past Soviet vs Contemporary National Discourses)
Dori Laub, Johanna Bodenstab : Jewish Slave Labor in the Context of the Holocaust
Almut Leh : Remeberences of Slave and Forced Labourers
Christoph Thonfeld : Former forced and slave labourers in Germany, Ukraine and Great Britain after 1945. Individual and collective memories of National Socialist forced labour in international comparison



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
H-13 ORA11 Remembering the Future: Secondary Analysis in Oral History
Room 1.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Graciela De Garay
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Brigitte Halbmayr : Which 'truth' do we search in life story interviews? And which one can we find?
Steve Hochstadt : Transcription, Editing, and Lost Meaning
Alison Twells : Oral History and Community ‘Regeneration’ in Britain



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
U-14 ORA12 Rhetorics of Group Identity
Room10.2
Network: Oral History Chair: James Mark
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sandor Horvath : 'Wild West', 'gangster' and 'desperado' feelings: perception of the 'West' in youth subcultures in Hungary in the 1960s
Mónica Maurício : The Oral Speech on the Students’ Movement in the Technical Superior Institute (1945-1962)
Pavel Mücke : „Living under Freedom is More Difficult…“ or the Image of Foreigners and Foreign Countries in Memory of „Working Inteligensia Class“ in Czechoslovakia in 1970s and 1980s
Malin Thor, Antje Hornscheidt & Izabela Dahl : Narrated identities.Intersections of religion, gender, nation, locality and ethnicity in the narrations of Jews’ and Muslims’ identities in Sweden 1933-2008



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
P-15 ORA13 Collective Memory and Collective Identities
Room 8.1
Network: Oral History Chair: Joanna Bornat
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Simone Amorim, Ester Fraga Vilas-Boas Carvalho Do Nascimento : From Memories to Forgottens: The Female Teachers Preparation at the “Instituto Ponte Nova”
Graciela De Garay : The "International Style" as a key element to understand the professionalization of architecture in Mexico, 1940-1970
Lígia Maria Leite Pereira : Negotiating memory: the case of brazilian elites
Luisa Tiago De Oliveira : IST students movement: the contribution of the oral history


S-15 ORA14 Voices, Context, and Transmission of Oral History
Instituto de Arte
Network: Oral History Chair: Penny Summerfield
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Sari Bar-On, Eshkar Miki : Historical Values versus Emotional Values - Art Therapy as an Mediator
Daniela Koleva : Oral History interviewing an the production of meaning: defending 'bad' questions
Leena Rossi : Emotions in Oral History Interview
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander : The Speech acts of silence: The mystery of the Finnish working-class writer Kasperi Tanttu (1886-1918)



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
E-16 ORA04 Public presentations; interpreting audiovisual history
Cave E
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Luís Manuel Calvo Salgado : The documentary film: Hans Hutter. A Swiss volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.
Amaya Muruzabal : The representation of the veteran as the reflection of a community of memory
Lucy Robinson : ‘My story, I am sorry to say, has no conclusion’ - Soldiers Stories and the Falkland’s War.
Penny Summerfield : Life stories, historical authenticity and the public memory of the Second World War in 1950s Britain


Q-16 ORA15 Oral History and Methodology, Roundtable
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Oral History Chair: Ulla-Maija Peltonen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Joanna Bornat : The implications of secondary analysis for archived oral history data
Karoline Feyertag : Reading the Other and Listening to the Other
Ela Hornung : Working with deep hermeneutics
Michael John : Austria 1945 - 1955: Landscapes of Memories
Albert Lichtblau : Returning Shock



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
T-18 ORA17 Memory and the Future: Urban Contestation and Subjectivity in the Global City of Istanbul
Room 9
Networks: Oral History , Urban Chair: Ela Hornung
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eda Cakmakci : Recollection of 'alternative' collections: Sahafs and family archives in Istanbul
Sinan Gulhan : Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: The Trialectical Tale of Urban Ideology in Turkish Modernity
Serkan Yolacan : On the Edge of “Urban Regeneration”: Constitution of Political Subjectivity in 'Sulukule'
Nilsu Yürür : Cyberspace Identities and Psychoanalytic Meanings


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