[Bilimsel Haber] ANNC: Summer Institute on oral/video history, Memory, Media, Meaning

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Lisa Rubens <lrubens at LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU>

Memory, Media, Meaning is the theme for a week-long intensive,
academically oriented institute on the theory, methodology, and practice
of oral/video history, sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office, at
U.C. Berkeley, August 14-18, 2006. Designed for academic, independent,
public, and community scholars engaged in serious research that in some
manner utilizes oral/video history and/or interview-based methodologies.
  It is geared to scholars and practitioners with a wide-range of
interests and expertise, from graduate students just beginning their
research to advanced scholars, professors and teachers looking to update
their skills or learn a new research methodology.

Museum and other institutionally based research projects are welcome and
have always comprised a significant apart of the institute.

The Institute revolves around the specific work of its participants and
the larger historical questions they seek to address. We offer a unique
opportunity to workshop your project in small groups tied to our faculty
specialists and a cross-section of practitioners whose interests and
problems are similar.

Participants will use the institute to develop their own work both
conceptually and methodologically -honing the focus of their projects
and developing their facility with interviewing in a variety of learning
settings including presentations by ROHOs academic faculty, one-on-one
tutorials, seminar-style discussions and workshops. Particular attention
to analysis and application of narratives that are collected.

This year's visiting scholar is Susanna Kaiser, author of Postmemories
of Terror: A New Generation Deals with the Legacy of the Dirty War
(Palgrave Studies in Oral History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
which is based on oral histories with young Argentineans, exploring
their generation's knowledge of the dictatorship derived from
generational stories and media representations. Dr. Kaiser teaches
media, mass communications and Latin American Studies at the University
of San Francisco. Resident faculty include: Vic Geraci, author of
The Rise of Santa Barbara's Wine Industry, Martin Meeker, author of
Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community,
Elizabeth Castle, author of the forthcoming, Women were the Backbone,
Men were the Jawbone: American Indian  Women's Activism in the Red Power
Movement, Lisa Rubens, author, An Oral History of Women in California,
and Notes From the Field: New Directions in Oral History -in progress.
[see http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO for research areas and project
collections]

A daily schedule and reader will be provided, with time allocated for
practice with equipment, touring, fun. One evening is devoted to an oral
history of California food and wine, including a wine tasting. Tuition
$850. Credit card payment cannot be arranged. Housing and most meals
must be arranged separately. There are no scholarships. Applications are
due May 12 and notices of acceptance will be sent May 19. Please address
all questions to lrubens at library.berkeley.edu with "Summer Institute" in
the subject line of your email.

Lisa Rubens
Director, Advanced Oral History Summer Institute
ROHO, UC Berkeley
USA

510  643-2057