BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news88@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180313T154823 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180412T000000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Oral history - methods\, challenges and current debates ( with Chrischené Julius) DESCRIPTION:Registration: All participants are invited to register no late r than 29th March 2018 via this form [https://k11331.evasys.de/evasys/onl ine.php?p=JRMVR]. PhD students of the University of Basel who would like t o get 1 credit point must register additionally via MOnA [https://vorlesu ngsverzeichnis.unibas.ch/de/home?id=230908] no later than 26th March 2018 . Participants who would like to present and discuss their research projec ts are invited to send a brief abstract no later than 15th March 2018 to m elanie.boehi@unibas.ch [mailto:melanie.boehi@unibas.ch]. (max. 2000 charac ters).\\r\\nContact: melanie.boehi@unibas.ch [mailto:melanie.boehi@unibas .ch] \\r\\nAbstract: Oral history as a discipline emerged from the desir e to tell the story of the "ordinary" person - to treat the personal as ar chival and to deploy this in producing histories. Oral history emerged par ticularly as a tool to narrate those voices left out of the official histo rical canon and the archival record. It was seen as a tool to empower\, to foreground personal and collective experiences and to counter the hegemon ic ideas of the state. It was therefore especially regarded as suitable fo r researching the experiences of marginalised groups\, e.g. workers\, peas ants\, women\, LGBTQ communities and people living under colonial regimes or dictatorships. Equipped with a recorder\, a questionnaire and oftentime s an interpreter\, oral history developed important texts within the histo rical canon of Europe\, North America\, Asia and Africa. However\, the deb ates that emerged within the production of these texts dealt largely with how it perpetuated a "domination versus resistance" model of history\, and the ways in which it silenced how the interviews and texts were in themse lves authored with inherent and uncritical bias. A call emerged for a self -reflexivity in the practice of collecting stories - understanding the soc io-political contexts in which people perform stories and relate them. Mem ory studies emerged as a key framework for enabling this self-reflexivity. The workshop will focus on the practical considerations when taking on an oral history approach\, and will frame these under current debates around "voice" - exploring authorship and the incentive to tell 'ordinary' stori es - and working with nostalgia and writing history. It is on the one hand designed as a general introduction to oral history and will provide an ov erview of methods\, challenges and current debates. On the other hand it o ffers participants who are doing oral history research or are planning to do so in the future an opportunity to present and discuss ideas\, question s\, challenges or select data (e.g. a collection or example of oral histor y) related to their own research projects. The workshop is aimed at both p articipants with no prior knowledge of oral history who are interested in learning more about the method as well as participants who have experience with it. PhD students from all areas of specialisation are welcome. Texts for preparation will be circulated before the workshop.\\r\\nChrischené Julius is visiting the Basel Graduate School of History in April 2018 as a BGSH fellow. She is a South African historian and the Head of the Collect ions\, Research and Documentation Department of the District Six Museum in Cape Town. The District Six Museum has since its foundation in 1994 condu cted extensive oral history research for its exhibitions and archive about experiences of District Six and forced removals in Cape Town. It has deve loped an interdisciplinary and multi-genre approach to historical research and collaborates regularly with academic historians\, artists\, community organisations and youth groups. Chrischené Julius has managed and conduc ted interviews for various oral history projects of the District Six Museu m. Her current research focuses on how oral history intersects with the fu nctioning of the Museum as a public space which not only reproduces histor ical narratives but also actively produces them.\\r\\nDate & Time: Thursda y 12.04.2018: 2.30 - 6.00 pm and Friday 13.04.2018: 9.30 am - 1.00 pm. A l unch will follow. X-ALT-DESC:Registration: \;All participants are invited to regis ter no later than 29th March 2018 via this \;form. PhD students of the Univers ity of Basel who would like to get 1 credit point must register additional ly via \;MOnA \;no later than 26th March 2018. Participants who would like to present and discuss their research projects are invited to send a brief abstract no later than 15th March 2018 to melanie.boehi@unibas.ch. (max. 2000 characters). \nContact: \;melanie.b oehi@unibas.ch \;\nAbstract: \;Oral history as a discip line emerged from the desire to tell the story of the "\;ordinary" \; person - to treat the personal as archival and to deploy this in produc ing histories. Oral history emerged particularly as a tool to narrate thos e voices left out of the official historical canon and the archival record . It was seen as a tool to empower\, to foreground personal and collective experiences and to counter the hegemonic ideas of the state. It was there fore especially regarded as suitable for researching the experiences of ma rginalised groups\, e.g. workers\, peasants\, women\, LGBTQ communities an d people living under colonial regimes or dictatorships. Equipped with a r ecorder\, a questionnaire and oftentimes an interpreter\, oral history dev eloped important texts within the historical canon of Europe\, North Ameri ca\, Asia and Africa. However\, the debates that emerged within the produc tion of these texts dealt largely with how it perpetuated a "\;dominat ion versus resistance"\; model of history\, and the ways in which it s ilenced how the interviews and texts were in themselves authored with inhe rent and uncritical bias. A call emerged for a self-reflexivity in the pra ctice of collecting stories - understanding the socio-political contexts i n which people perform stories and relate them. Memory studies emerged as a key framework for enabling this self-reflexivity. The workshop will focu s on the practical considerations when taking on an oral history approach\ , and will frame these under current debates around "\;voice"\; - exploring authorship and the incentive to tell 'ordinary' stories - and wo rking with nostalgia and writing history. It is on the one hand designed a s a general introduction to oral history and will provide an overview of m ethods\, challenges and current debates. On the other hand it offers parti cipants who are doing oral history research or are planning to do so in th e future an opportunity to present and discuss ideas\, questions\, challen ges or select data (e.g. a collection or example of oral history) related to their own research projects. The workshop is aimed at both participants with no prior knowledge of oral history who are interested in learning mo re about the method as well as participants who have experience with it. P hD students from all areas of specialisation are welcome. Texts for prepar ation will be circulated before the workshop.\n
Chrischené Julius is visiting the Basel Graduate School of History in April 2018 as a B GSH fellow. She is a South African historian and the Head of the Collectio ns\, Research and Documentation Department of the District Six Museum in C ape Town. The District Six Museum has since its foundation in 1994 conduct ed extensive oral history research for its exhibitions and archive about e xperiences of District Six and forced removals in Cape Town. It has develo ped an interdisciplinary and multi-genre approach to historical research a nd collaborates regularly with academic historians\, artists\, community o rganisations and youth groups. Chrischené Julius has managed and conducte d interviews for various oral history projects of the District Six Museum. Her current research focuses on how oral history intersects with the func tioning of the Museum as a public space which not only reproduces historic al narratives but also actively produces them.\nDate &\; Time: T hursday 12.04.2018: 2.30 - 6.00 pm and Friday 13.04.2018: 9.30 am - 1.00 p m. A lunch will follow. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180413T000000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR