Programme - Oral History Society

ORAL Annual
HISTORY Conference
SOCIETY 2014
In association with
Manchester
Metropolitan
University
COMMUNITY VOICES:
ORAL HISTORY ON THE GROUND
Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday18th to Saturday19th July 2014
Picture: Joe Stevens
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 18 JULY
09.30
Registration opens
10.00-11.00
Practical workshops (parallel sessions). Open to delegates and non-delegates.
Recording clinic: expert advice on any sound recording queries or problems (Nick Hayes, Inquit Audio)
A lasting difference for heritage and people: Introducing HLF’s strategy and new good practice guidance on
oral history (Jo Reilly)
Current issues in copyright and ethics (Rob Perks and Joanna Bornat)
11.00-11.15
Tea/coffee break
11.15-11.30 Welcome by Berthold Schoene, Professor of English, Associate Dean and Director of the
Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research, Manchester Metropolitan University
11.30-12.30 Opening Plenary
Simon Elmes
Documenting our lives: Oral history, radio documentary and The Listening Project
Chair: Fiona Cosson
12.30-13.45
Lunch
13.00-13.40 Practical Workshop: Oral history and family history (Cynthia Brown and Mary Stewart)
13.45-15.15
Parallel sessions:
Health
Chair: Joanna Bornat
The evolution of physiotherapy: a professional community, Barbara Richardson
Now+Then: three decades of HIV in Merseyside, Elaine Brown and Emma Vickers
I know it's a bad illness but I've had a good life: creating oral history communities in palliative care, Michelle Winslow and Sam
Smith
Digital communities
Chair: Rob Perks
Beyond the Map: memories of leisure and play in the Ouseburn, Alex Henry and Colin Green
Strolling in virtual space: history as a 'drama of human activity’, Achim Saur and Christine Speiss
Getting to know your digital audience: a case study from the Cork Folklore Project, an oral history group with a growing online
presence, Penny Johnston and Cliona O’Carroll
Building communities
Chair: Mary Stewart
20 years on the ground: lessons learnt and shedding a tear! Judith Garfield
Teaching them to fish: building a sound community in New Zealand, Lynette Shum
Community insider/community outsider: reflections from both sides of the fence, Amy Tooth Murphy
15.15-15.45
Tea/coffee
15.45-17.30
Parallel sessions:
Creative approaches to Oral History
Chair: Cynthia Brown
Using and creating oral history in dialect research, Natalie Braber
A cyber-culture heritage centre for the British Chinese, Chungwen Li
Reconnecting communities through recorded memories, Margaret Bennett
Introducing the 'collaborative stories spiral': A participatory methodology for creating transformational oral history research,
Niamh Moore
Divided communities / contested memories
Chair: Robert Wilkinson
Doing oral history within a divided ‘community’: challenges for an outsider, Romaine Farquet
An effect of oral history: correcting the record, Ben Morris
Gendering oral history: walled city and the Muslim marginalization in post-partition Delhi, Anjali B Datta
Voices of the University of Warwick: institutional histories and conflicting communities, Richard Wallace
Defining community
Chair: Helen Gibb
Fellowship of controversy: a multi-media presentation of sounds from the park; an oral and visual history of Speakers’ Corner, Hyde
Park, Laura Mitchison and Rosa Vilbr
An island paradigm: a presentation about the experience of undertaking the creation and publication of an archive of oral history
recordings in a Hebridian community, Jane Carswell
‘I come from’: diversifying ethnic oral histories through creative work with young people, Siobhan O’Neill and Fiona Smith
Granada Television: ‘The finest TV company in the world’ (New York Times), Stephen Kelly and Judith Jones
19.30
Conference Meal at School of Art
SATURDAY 19 JULY
09.15
Registration desk opens (coffee available)
09.30-10.30
Plenary
Linda Shopes
Community History: Where have we been, where are we going?
Chair: Anne Gulland
10.45-12.15
Parallel sessions:
Oral History in urban space and place
Chair: Sarah Lowry
Beyond the academy: collaboration, housing pathways and the Irish community in Leicester and Sheffield, Angela Maye-Banbury,
Rionach Casey and Lynda Callaghan
York Remembers Rowntree: constructing an oral history in an urban environment, Suzanne Lilley
Our Humble Abodes: memories of Liverpool's court housing, Kerry Massheder-Rigby
Doing oral history in schools
Chair: Craig Fees
Producing oral history resources for schools - some reflections, Cynthia Brown
‘Oral History, making lives last': how one secondary school has attempted to bring oral history to the classroom, Douglas Smith
University and high school engagement in oral history: a reflective analysis of the Scottish Oral History Centre and Springburn
Academy, 2013-2014, Andrew Clark
Migrant communities
Chair: Robert Wilkinson
The limits of oral history: crisis and privilege among ethnic minority refugees from Burma in the American midwest, Keith Yanner
and Katie Gaebel
North Aegean Greek islander Migration to Australia - 1950s to 1970s: 'For a better life we came ...’, Melissa Afentoulis
Sephardi Voices UK and Jamaican Hidden Histories, Sharon Rapaport
12.15 -14.15
Lunch
12.15 -13.30
Annual General Meeting of the Oral History Society (all welcome) chaired by Graham Smith
13.30 -14.10
Practical workshop: Future-proofing your oral history collection – funding challenges and opportunities
(Susan Malden and Howard Berry)
13.30 -14.00
A role for oral history: a performance of songs and monologues inspired by Henry Mayhew’s London Labour
and the London Poor (Tina McKevitt and Matt Hegarty)
14.15 -15.45
Parallel sessions:
Intergenerational Oral History
Chair: Dvora Liberman
Listening to the voice of our ancestors: a tin embroidery cultural study by teachers and students in an ethnic Miao area in China,
Yongli Lu and Elaine Dong
Changing nature: reflections on collecting stories from the Edgecombe Hall Estate, Diana Salazar and Neil Cheshire
Talking New Towns: an online oral history project capturing tales of the emergence of Hertfordshire’s new towns, Grete DalumTilds
Recapturing communities
Chair: Cynthia Brown
Stories of the City: performing the individual and collective memories of Sailortown, Isobel Anderson
How communities fuelled by their passions create oral history: three reflections, Mary Kay Quinlan, Barbara W Sommer and Nancy
MacKay
Whose project is this? Whose stories do we tell? Participatory frameworks for community-based oral history projects, Andrew
Flinn and Julianne Nyhan
Performing Oral History
Chair: Rib Davis
Recognising and reconciling US soldiers’ narratives in the making of the documentary play Yardbird, Sarah Beck
Performing Controversy: oral history and a community-engaged theatre process with and about Toronto’s Jewish Left, Ruth
Howard
How can community oral history and performance be used to explore the complex impacts of regeneration? David Roberts
15.45-16.00
Tea/coffee break
16.00-17.30
Parallel sessions:
Children
Chair: Michelle Winslow
The Early Pestalozzi Children Project: recovering a lost community, William Eiduks and Len Clarke
‘No foundation all the way down the line’: being a community oral historian revisited, Craig Fees
It takes a village to raise a child: life story work as a means of creating and supporting communities, Pam Schweitzer
Stigma and survival
Chair: Fiona Cosson
‘We don’t talk about that’: challenging community silence, Maria DeLongoria
Love, war, betrayal, trust: how the Shoah archives unite the Holocaust survivor community, Linda F Burghardt
Communities of stigma? Exploring the oral histories of communities of people with intellectual disability and mental health
problems, Lee Humber
Hidden and unheard communities
Chair: Sarah Lowry
Communities of experience: recreating a hidden community and giving a sense of validation to those who belonged to it,
Katherine Onion
Gender propaganda and counter-culture: the women's liberation and after in Nottingham Oral History Project and Nottingham's
Wayward Daughters, Natasha Picot
Gathering unheard voices: queer heritage in post-war Plymouth, Alan Butler
17.30
Conference ends