Unless specified, all seminars for the Autumn Term 2009 are at the 5X社区视频, Tuesdays 12.30-1.55pm, in the Russell Building, Room 9. (Wheelchair accessible.)
How reminiscence can facilitate Deaf people's health and wellbeing
Date: 8 December 2009
Speaker: John Walker, 5X社区视频
The Our Space project aims to identify spaces that will facilitate Deaf people's health and wellbeing through reminiscence activity in real and virtual space. This seminar explores the development of an on-line archive where the visual recording of narratives in British Sign Language is central to the website. (please note that this link is not yet live as it is currently being developed. This website will be available in December 2009).
Producing history - Oral historians as the 'middle men' of history
Date: 1 December 2009
Speaker: Chris Webb, 5X社区视频 of Huddersfield
Christopher Webb will draw on his experiences as an oral history 'worker' within the heritage industry to highlight the dilemma of maintaining one's independence as a conscientious historian while producing history as a commodity.
Afghan women: Stories from the 1920s onwards
Date: 17 November 2009
Speaker: Julie Bilaud, 5X社区视频
Afghan women have been depicted in the international press as a monolithic and homogenous group in need of 'rescue' from a 'barbaric culture'. Julie Bilaud explores this representation with the personal stories of Afghan women collected in her fieldwork in Kabul 2007.
The inter-cultural encounters of peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Date: 10 November 2009
Speaker: Catherine Baker, 5X社区视频 of Southampton
Catherine Baker discusses the inter-cultural aspects of peacekeeping based on oral history interviews with British and Danish peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a particular focus on the self-positioning and identity construction of interpreters and linguists.
Creating Soundscapes for exhibitions and galleries
Date: 3 November 2009
Speaker: Mary Ingoldby, Freelance Oral Historian
How do you use personal testimony in exhibitions and galleries - is it compelling or is it just annoying? Mary Ingoldby is an oral historian and sound artist and will speak about creating soundscapes for galleries and for specific places. She will discuss mixing original voices with song and poetry and play excerpts from recent work.
QueenSpark Books: A practical example of radical history-making in the community
Date: 27 October 2009
Speaker: Lorraine Sitzia, 5X社区视频
In order to survive a rapidly changing political and social climate, QueenSpark Books has had to adapt whilst trying to hold onto its original beliefs. Lorraine Sitzia explores how the ideals of radical history-making translate into practice, by considering the internal and external factors that have shaped QueenSpark's development over the past 35 years.