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Appel à communication, Conférence "Oral History and Life Stories Network", Vienna (Austria) 23-26 April 2014.
Date limite : 15 mai 2013
Oral History and Life Stories Network
Memory,
Narrative, History : The Network brings together oral historians and life
story practitioners who use oral histories to explore memory, narrative
and history.
2014 Theme : Crises and ruptures in memory and narrative
The Oral History
and Life Stories Network has become the major regular international
forum for European oral history and life story researchers. The European
Social Science History Conference has been held biannually since 1996
and the Oral History and Life Stories network has met at each conference
since 1998. Oral History and Life Stories is currently one of the
largest, friendliest and most popular networks of the European Social
Science Conference.
We invite
proposals for the Vienna ESSHC-conference on 23-26 April 2014 both for
individual papers and for sessions. Sessions can have various formats :
panels, round table discussions, presentations in other media followed
by discussion.
We invite
contributions discussing conceptual and methodological issues related to
the representation of crises and ruptures (private, public, personal
and/or political) in oral history with specific reference to memory and
narrative. We welcome contributions from both oral historians and life
story practitioners but with the focus on oral testimonies.
We are
especially encouraging contributions addressing disrupted memories and
silences. This might be with reference to place or to the relationship
between the local and global and/or between individual and social
memory. We would hope for analyses of positive as well as negative
impacts of crises and ruptures.
We would welcome proposals addressing the following issues :
• Ruptures and Crises : Making sense of the past or rewriting history ?
• Rupture, repressed memories and trauma
• Crises and positive changes in re/constructing identities
• Breaking with the past and reshaping memory
• Narratives and memories of globalization and resistance
• Transnational and national narratives of Europe
• (Re)presenting selves and others : multiculturalism, crises and memory
• ‘Composure’ and ‘discomposure’ in the construction of narratives
In addition we would also like to see presentations that :
·
Explore methodological changes and challenges for working and
researching with oral history in different disciplinary fields
·
Address challenges facing the oral history method ; including how
attitudes to interviewing and being interviewed have changed ; new ways
of analyzing interviews ; as well as approaches to archiving
·
Compare written texts with oral sources in relation to the themes listed above
·
Discuss the social function of oral history archives in relation to
crises and historical disruption (including re-use of interviews
produced by earlier projects)
·
Explore emotions, sensory and embodied memories in relation to the themes above.
Finally, we
would like to encourage specific panels on oral history and its use in
education, and on research combining oral history and audio-visual
research (again with reference to this year’s theme of rupture and
crises).
Please send your
proposals to Graham Smith, Andrea Strutz and Timothy Ashplant. Upon
submission you must also pre-register on the conference website where
more general conference information is available. Panel proposals should
be submitted by the intended chair(s) of the panel, and include details
of each of the papers proposed.
The deadline for sending your abstract is May 15, 2013.
Chairs : Graham Smith
(Graham.Smith@rhul.ac.uk), Andrea Strutz (andrea.strutz@uni-graz),
Timothy Ashplant (tga49@o2.co.uk)