Preliminary Programme

Showing: Oral History (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
O-1 ORA01 Trauma and Mourning
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Devereux Powers : From Voices to Visible Text: Complexities in Transcribing the Narratives of Mississippi Chinese World War II Veterans
John Powers, Gwendolyn Gong : Making Sense of the Stories of Mississippi Chinese World War II Veterans
Michaela Raggam-Blesch : “Der Riss der Zeit geht durch mein Herz”. Nostalgia and the Narrative of a “Lost Paradise” in Jewish Oral-history Documents after the Shoah



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
O-2 ORA02 Work and Labour
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Zibiah Alfred
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Timothy Ashplant : Text in Context: Life Narrative and Class Relations in Imperial Britain (1879-1918)
Alison Chand : ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Communities in the Reserved Occupations 1939-1945: Retrieving the Regional Experiences of Glasgow’s Wartime Workers
Linsey Robb : ‘Fighting in their Own Ways’?: Using Oral Histories to Explore Cultural Representations of Men in Reserved Occupations in Britain, 1939-1946



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
O-3 ORA03 Migration/Diaspora I
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Graham Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bea Lewkowicz : Sephardi Voices: Reflections on the Role of Nostalgia in Oral History Interviews
Mónica Beatriz Mendoza, Eduardo Espinosa : Coming Back: The Repatriated Scientists
Ulla Savolainen : Nostalgia as a Narrative Strategy and Practice – the Case of Migrant Karelians in Finland



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
O-4 ORA04 Migration/Diaspora II
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Timothy Ashplant
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Zibiah Alfred : Childhood Landscapes and the Impact of Nostalgia upon the Refugee Communities History Project
Fiona Frank : “My Great-grandfather was a Red-haired Rabbi from Omsk”: Nostalgia for the Past in a Scottish Jewish Family
Wiktoria Kudela-Swiatek : A Fly in the Ointment. Biographical Narratives of Kazakhstan Poles and the Polish Public Discourse
Graham Smith, Oscar Forero : Nostalgia has a History: Ukranian Foodways and the Generational Politics of Longing



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
O-5 ORA05 Nostalgia and Gender Narratives
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Anna Kopecka
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Montserrat Duch, Montserrat Palau & Agnès Toda & Meritxell Ferré : Collection of Oral Experiences of Catalan Women regarding the Civil War: Elements of Trauma and Nostalgia in Biographies and History
Ruth Easingwood : ‘It was at the Locarno ... or was it Barrowlands? Youthful Identity and Nostalgia for the Dance Hall 1939 – 1960
Kirsi-Maria Hytönen : Nostalgia and Women's Memories of Wage Work in Finland in 1940s and 1950s
Lauren Taylor : Older Women Look Back on Romantic Love: Nostalgia, Idealization, and Imagination


R-5 POL22 Making and Unmaking of Border Populations
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Oral History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Muriel Blaive : Changing Generational Identities on the Hungarian-Slovak Border
Astrid M. Eckert : The East of the West: The Making of West Germany‘s Borderlands
Alena Pfoser : The Meaning of the Border in Life-story Narratives of Russians Living in Narva, Estonia
Dariusz Stola : Social space and state frontiers: migrations from communist Poland to Germanies and Israel



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
O-6 ORA06 Corporate, Business and Organizational Oral History: The Issues and the Challenges
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Miroslav Vanek
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : 'It's Our Oil!' Were the 1970s the Last Chance for Scottish Independence and did the Nationalists funk it?
Rob Perks, Alison Gilmour & Niamh Dillon : Corporate, Business and Organisational Oral History: The Issues and the Challenges



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
O-7 ORA09 Czech Oral History
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Kopecka : Turbulent History of Czech Sociology in the Period of Communist Regime in the Narratives of the Contemporaries
Pavel Mücke : Looking for Roots of Oral History in Czech Republic: A Short Analytical Outline of Czech Oral History Projects 1996–2011
Libora Oates-Indruchova : Nostalgia Forbidden: Ethics and the Narrative Voice in Presenting Politically Marginalized and Controversial Recollections
Miroslav Vanek : Encounters and Passings. Czech Oral History in Global Perspective.



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
O-9 ORA07 Community and Social Change I
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Pavel Mücke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
David Beorlegui : Lost Voices. An Oral History Study of Basque Social Movements since 1975
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda : The Golden Age of Brazilian Football - Testimonials from Former Players of the Brazilian National Team in the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups
Fiona Cosson : Imagined Nostalgia: Popular Memory, Individual Testimony and the Memorialisation of Community in Britain
George Watley : Creation of Cultural Change and Development of Community Solidarity using Oral History



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
O-10 ORA08 Community and Social Change II
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Fiona Cosson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Malgorzata Adamczyk : Who Killed Mietek środa? Between Historic and Mythical Narration
Zeynep Emine Güler : Urban Transformation and Nostalgia in Merdivenköy, Istanbul
James Karmel : Oral History and Undergraduate History Education: the Recent American Military Experience
Daniela Koleva : Memories and Meanings: Linking Life Experiences to Social and Cultural Change
Malin Thor : Narratives about what? A Discussion about the Archive “Jewish Memories” at the National Museum of Cultural History in Sweden



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
O-11 ORA14 Archives and Oral History: Exploring the Changing Dynamics of Partnership, Collection and Use
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Rob Perks
Organizers: - Discussants: Joanne Bartholomew, Elspeth Millar, Rob Perks, Sarah Smith, Mary Stewart



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
K-12 ORA15 Lost and New Homes. Coming to terms with Ambivalent Pasts and Present Belongings
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Oral History Chair: Bea Lewkowicz
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Eveline Buchheim : In Search of the Unknown Fatherland
Marjo Buitelaar : The Contested Waterjar. Moroccan Home-making in a Diasporic Context
Aya Ezawa : Telling the Unknown Past: Indisch-Japanese and the Memory of WWII
Ellis Jonker : Hard to Digest. Educated Nostalgia among the Moluccan Dutch (1951-2011)
Stefania Scagliola : Coming of Age in the arms of the Baboe – Reminiscences of Former Dutch-conscripts Who served in Indonesia of their Love-affairs with Local Female Servants


O-12 ORA11 Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Albert Lichtblau
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Irina Rebrova : Thematic Lines of “Children’s of War” Narrative: Traumatic Experience or Nostalgia
Irena Saleniece : Sovietisation as Trauma: Memories of Forced Changes to Ethnic, Religious and Social Identities
Geoffrey Swain : “ ‘We Were the Vanguard!’: Nostalgia for Latvia’s Young Communist League”
Maria Zolotukhina : Memory of a War Childhood: The Experience Before and During WWII in Russia



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
R-13 ORA16 Gendered Lives, Antinomical Nostalgia: Women's Memories of State Socialism
Maths Building: 203
Network: Oral History Chair: Amia Lieblich
Organizers: - Discussant: Andrea Peto
Izabella Agardi : "One had to Adjust to Everything: to the Kádár -regime, to the Tito-regime here, to Ceausescu there". Structural Nostalgias in Hungarian Women's Life Narratives from Serbia, Romania and Hungary
Ana Luleva : Gender Dimensions of Post-socialist Nostalgia in Bulgaria
Natalia Pushkareva : The Oral History of Russian Academy Community: Transformations of Gender-discrimination Practices
Veronica Shapovalov : "There is No Place Like Home": Trauma and Nostalgia in Women's Memoirs of the Gulag



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
O-14 ORA12 Workplace, Community Change and Nostalgia
JWS Room J355 (J10)
Network: Oral History Chair: Daniela Koleva
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jackie Clarke : Losing Moulinex, Losing Fordism: Complexities of Nostalgia in Oral History Narratives after Factory Closures
Steven High : Vanishing Neighbourhoods: Oral History and Urban Change
Andrew Perchard : “A dying mutual friend”: Industrial Closures, Working Lives and National Culture in Post-war Scotland
Tim Strangleman : Erasure, Remembrance, Nostalgia, and Loss: Reflections on the Death of an English Brewery


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