Preliminary Programme

Showing: room X (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
X-1 ORA01 Narratives, Experiences and Understandings of Work, Job Loss and Health in the Twentieth Century
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Sean O'Connell
Organizer: Matthew Smith Discussants: -
Roberta Garruccio : Occupational Psychology and Plant Closure: Oral Narratives from the Falck Steelworks in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan)
Kirsi-Maria Hytönen : “We Never Complained”: Tiredness and Strength in the Memories of Working Women during the Second World War in Finland
Stephen Mawdsley : Ghosts of the Jake Walk: Oral History and Jamaica Ginger Paralysis
Arthur McIvor : ‘Scrap Heap’ Stories: Oral Narratives of Work Loss, Health and the Body in Deindustrializing Scotland
Matthew Smith : A Measure of Sanity? Work and the Prevention of Mental Illness in North America, 1945-1980



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
X-2 ORA02 Discovering Truths? Perspectives on the Told and Untold in Oral Testimony
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Nanci Adler
Organizer: Jessica Hammett Discussants: -
Jessica Douthwaite : An ‘Age of Fear’? Deciphering Untold Emotions in Oral Histories
Jessica Hammett : ‘I used to have a Memory, now I have a Forgettory’: Rehearsed, Recalled and Lost Stories
Ariane Mak : Remembering the Forgotten Conscripts. A Comparative Analysis of Bevin Boys’ Narratives
Daniel Swan : “We were all in it together”: Women’s Memories of the Second World War in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
X-3 ORA03 Personal Documents from Below: Authorship, Form, Interpretation
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Anne Heimo
Organizer: Anna Kuismin Discussants: -
Boda Adrian : Roma Army Experience in Communist Era
Timothy Ashplant : Making Subaltern Voices Heard: from Archive to Audience
Anna Kuismin : Introspection in Life Stories and Diaries from below: Case studies from Nineteenth-Century Finland
Martyn Lyons : Do Peasants write Egodocuments? The ‘Ordinary Exception’ of Luigi Daldosso in the First World War
Ulla Savolainen : Letters from the Gulag: Religious Discourse and the Expression of Personal Experiences



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
X-4 ORA04a Remembering Repression I
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Terry Brotherstone
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Rory Archer : “It was better when it was worse.” Working Class Temporalities of 1980s Yugoslavia
Rutt Hinrikus : From Written to Oral
Sevil Kilincoglu : Diverse Memories and Making Sense of the Past: Remembering the 1970s with Iranian and Turkish Radical Leftist Activist Women
Pavel Mücke : Passing through the Iron Curtain and Beyond. Metamorphosis of Czech Abroad Travelling and Tourism Experience Before and After 1989 in Oral History Perspective
Irina Rebrova : Traumatic Childhood: Narratives about Evacuation of Jews and their Surviving in the Holocaust in the North Caucasian region of the Former USSR



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
X-5 ORA04b Remembering Repression II
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: David Beorlegui
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Nanci Adler : Post-Repression Narratives and the Stifling Effect of Repression in Russia
Kirsti Jõesalu, Ene Kõresaar : Mnemonic Turn & Post-Soviet Memories in Estonia
Sabine Kittel : “Poisoned Fields” in the Memory on the GDR Past – how to analyze Biographical Recollections in a Challenged Social Context
Radmila Svarickova Slabakova : Constructing Identities of Older Women: the Private and the Public in Memories



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
X-6 ORA06 Identities from Below: Minorities and Displaced
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Malin Thor Tureby
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Melanie Dejnega : Between Complicity and Victimhood. National Socialism and WW II in Narrations of Ethnic German Evacuees, Refugees and Expellees in Austria
Aynur Ilyasoglu : Local, Cultural, Ethnic Transformation in Communities of Istanbul Historical Peninsula - an Oral History Project
Daniela Koleva : The Emigration of Bulgarian Jews to Israel after WWII: Stories and Silences
Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi : The War Memories of the Lottas before and after the Neo-patriotic Turn in Finland
Lavinia Stan : Shared Past-Conflicting Present: Roma Oral History Narratives in Post-Socialist Romania.



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
X-7 ORA07 Ideology and Politics in European Memories
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Pavel Mücke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Gabriel Benavides Escrivá, Cristina Escrivá Moscardó : Oral History about Institutes for Workers
Terry Brotherstone, Hugo Manson : A Moment in Aberdeen, the Tuscan Anti-fascist Resistance, North Sea Oil, Neoliberalism and the UK’s Future: Reflections Arising from a Major Oral Documentation Project
Tea Sindbæk Andersen : Youth Brigadiers at the Railway – Personal Perspectives on Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Making



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
X-9 ORA09 Oral and Written Sources: Approaches to Life Stories
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Timothy Ashplant
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jesper Johansson, Malin Thor Tureby : Comparing Oral and Written Life Stories. Methodological Reflections on Archived Oral Interviews, Written Life Stories and Written Query List Answers from Three Collections of 'Immigrant Narratives' of the Nordic Museum in Sweden
Irena Saleniece : Oral History Sources and Archival Documents about Mass Deportations from Latvia during Stalinist Rule
Michal Simane, Jiri Zounek : Life Story of a Teacher in Socialist Czechoslovakia. At an Intersection of Oral History, Life History and Traditional History Sources
Annmarie Valdes : Graphing a Bio: Footsteps, Autopsies, and Portraits as Methods for Life-Histories



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
X-10 ORA10 Changing life stories
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Graham Smith
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel : What I didn’t tell ... Relation(s) and Relativity in Oral History Interviews
David Beorlegui : “Vitoria, Brothers, we do not Forget!”. Spanish Transition and its Limits through Activists' Memories
Amaya Caunedo Dominguez, Ruben Vega García & Irene Díaz Martínez : Fading Identities and Memories of Lost Work: Remain and Resignification of Labour Culture in a Context of Industrial Decline
Michael John : Outcast Children, 1940s – 1970s. Biographical Narratives from Austria



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
X-11 ORA11 Reflections on the Reuse of Archived Oral Histories
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Linde Apel
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Heimo : What makes Oral History 2.0 Different?
Alexander Prenninger : The Scum of the Earth. Marginal Groups in the Concentration Camps – as Viewed by their Fellow Prisoners
Donald Ritchie : Second Use: The Oral Historian as Public Historian and Researcher
Rico Simke, Verena Lucia Naegel : Shaped Voices. Technologically enhanced Secondary Analysis of Oral History Sources - Chances and Challenges



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
X-12 ORA12 Memory Building: Generational and Spatial
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Tiina Ann Kirss
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Rebecca Clifford : Finding the Child Holocaust Survivor in History and Memory
Hanna Hagmark-Cooper, Graham Smith : Narrating Fatherhood in Åland and Scotland: Transactive Generational Memories of Family
Tiiu Jaago : Narration of the Past in the Context of Changing Environment
Anni Reuter : Family as the Carrier of Memories of Exile - the Case of an Ingrian-Finnish Memory Culture



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
X-13 ORA13 Changing Environment, Place and Memory
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Penny Summerfield
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Barry Hazley : The 'Truth' about High Rise? Truth, Memory and Place in Personal Narratives of Long-term Residence in Multi-storey Housing
Guldeniz Kibris : Environmental Change and Forcible Displacement: Re-imagining Home through Oral History of Yusufeli
Tiina Ann Kirss : "Telling Love Stories"
Leslie McCartney : Northern Alaska Sea Ice Project Jukebox
Valerie Wright : Where’s the Tenants Voice? High Flats and Housing in Postwar Glasgow



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
X-14 ORA14 Changing Subjectivities, Meaning and Memory
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Alexander Prenninger
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti : Dialogic Construction and Contestation of “Elite Oral History” in Ex-MPs’ Interviews
Penny Summerfield : Hostage to the Tricks of Memory? Historians and Oral History
Olga Tabachnikova, Natalia Vinokurova : Broadening the Concept of ‘Truth’: Narrative Strategies of Top Russian Economists, between the Individual and Social



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
X-15 ORA15 Interdiciplinarity and the Interview
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Network: Oral History Chair: Donald Ritchie
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Hannah Charnock : ‘Is that too much?’: Interview Dynamics and Narratives of Sexuality
Rosemary Elliot, Andrea Thomson : ‘Tell us your Story’: Recruitment and Reflexivity in Oral Histories of Marriage in 20th Century Scotland
Miroslav Vanek : Oral History Between the Two International Congresses of Historical Sciences (OH Table, San Francisco 1975 and Evening Session of OH, Jinan 2015) – What comes Next?
Valerie Yow : What Oral Historians Can Learn From Psychotherapists and Vice Versa



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
X-16 ORA16 Children, Trauma and Memory
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Networks: Education and Childhood , Oral History Chair: Valerie Yow
Organizer: Shurlee Swain Discussants: -
Stine Gronbaek Jensen : Inconvenient Memories among Children and Adults Taken into Care in Denmark
Heidi Morrison : Memory, Agency and Palestinian Children of the Second Intifada
Michelle Mouton : Trauma Memories Differently Remembered: an Exploration of how Germans Remember the Second World War and its Aftermath
Shurlee Swain : “I Didn’t Have the Kind of Childhood Most Kids Have”: Recollections of Growing Up in American Orphanages in the 20th Century


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