[SSC] FW: CFP social/political movements and oral history research - conference 6 July 2013 (UK)

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Subject: CFP social/political movements and oral history research -
conference 6 July 2013 (UK)

This might be of interest to some listmembers.

Laurence

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Subject: 	[bewefo] cfp social/political movements and oral history
research - conference 6 July 2013	
Date: 	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:02:35 +0100	
From: 	Andrea Hajek <andreahajek at gmail.com>
<mailto:andreahajek at gmail.com> 	
Reply-To: 	Andrea Hajek <andreahajek at gmail.com>
<mailto:andreahajek at gmail.com> 	
To: 	bewegungsforschung at lists.riseup.net	

Call for papers 

Warwick Oral History Network conference: 

Talking about protest. Oral history methodology in social and political
movements research

Saturday 6 July 2013

Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick (Coventry, UK)

Organizers: Angela Davis and Andrea Hajek

In 2011, protests across the globe placed social movements at the heart
of media attention: from the Arab uprisings to the Occupy movements and
the Spanish indignados (the 'outraged'), the world seemed caught on a
wave of rebellion. Protests against austerity policies and claims for
democratic participation have increased since the beginning of the
financial crisis in 2008. Accordingly, academic interest in the study of
social movements and protests has grown, in particular with regards to
the role of social and mobile media, or the problem of violence and
political repression. This one-day conference will engage with the
politics of protest from a methodological perspective, focusing on the
challenges, advantages and pitfalls of personal testimony and oral
history sources in research on social movements and contentious politics
at large. 

The conference builds on an interdisciplinary seminar held at the
University of Warwick in February 2011, entitled 'Challenging dominant
discourses of the past: 1968 and the value of oral history'. The
proceedings of this seminar - recently published in the journal Memory
Studies (Vol. 6.1) - will be presented during the conference which,
however, extends the focus of research beyond the 1960s and 1970s. It
also seeks to explore case studies from different geographical areas, at
a local, national and global level, and representative of various forms
and goals of collective action. Hence it is not limited to
anti-authoritarian and anti-austerity politics alone. Its aim is to
bring together researchers of both historical and contemporary social
movements coming from a variety of disciplines (history, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, memory studies, etc), on the one hand,
and scholars of contentious politics and resistance more generally. The
topic may be approached from both a practical and a thematic angle. 

We invite people to submit proposals for presentations of 20-25 minutes.
Papers should discuss the challenges/problems/additional value of oral
history methodology in this type of research or present the outcomes of
oral history interviews that have been performed as part of a research
project.

Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

*	the (dis)composure of individual and collective identities
during the oral history interview 
*	the impact of external factors (e.g. sexuality, class, age and
ethnicity) on the formation of subjectivities during the oral history
interview 
*	the inter-subjective relation between narrator and listener 
*	ethics and legal issues 
*	talking about delicate topics such as political violence and
sexual discrimination 
*	mutual trust and reliability 
*	authority and 'possessive' memory 
*	silences and competition 
*	intergenerational memory/transference of memories of protest 
*	the implementation of oral history research on contentious
politics 

Please send abstracts of 150-200 words to Andrea Hajek
(andreahajek at gmail.com). Deadline for submissions is Sunday 14 April
2013.

For more information:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/networks/oralhistory
/julyconference/

For details on the Oral History Network and the Institute of Advanced
Study: go.warwick.ac.uk/oralhistorynetwork
<http://warwick.ac.uk/oralhistorynetwork> 

<http://warwick.ac.uk/oralhistorynetwork> 

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oralhistorynetwork

-- 
Andrea Hajek, PhD

Associate Fellow - Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
(UK)
Eportfolio: http://warwick.ac.uk/andreahajek - blog:
http://factotumish.wordpress.com/ 

>> Forthcoming publication: Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western
Europe: The Case of Italy, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series
(July, 2013) <<

Senior editorial assistant for Memory Studies (Sage)
Associate editor for Modern Italy (Taylor & Francis)

Founding member of the Warwick Oral History Network:
go.warwick.ac.uk/oralhistorynetwork
<http://warwick.ac.uk/oralhistorynetwork>  and
https://www.facebook.com/oralhistorynetwork 

Deliberately Considered
<http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/07/facebook-and-the-digital-
revolution-of-a-protest-generation/>  blog (commentaries, in English)
TraMe <http://centrotrame.wordpress.com/author/andreahajek/>  blog
(commentaries and reviews, in Italian)

Twitter: @endriu_79

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