[Bilimsel Haber] Oral History and Life Stories Network Call

[Gonul Pultar]

*Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Oral History and 
Life Stories Network Call*

	

	

Seventh European Social Science History Conference
27 February – 1 March 2008, Lisbon, Portugal
Oral History and Life Stories Network

Call for Papers:
Negotiating the Truth of Memory

The European Social Science History Conference has been held biannually 
since 1996. The Oral History and Life Stories network has met at each 
conference since 1998, and interest in it has been steadily rising. In 
2004, some seventy participants gathered at the network sessions. In 
2006, the network hosted seventeen sessions. With the International Oral 
History Association conference now meeting every other time outside 
Europe (Rio in 1998, Turkey in 2000, South Africa in 2002, Rome in 2004, 
Australia in 2006, Mexico 2008), the network has become the major 
regular international forum for European oral history and life story 
researchers.

We invite proposals for the University of Lisbon conference on 27 
February – 1 March 2008 both for individual papers and for entire 
sessions. Sessions can have various formats: panels, round table 
discussions, presentations in other media followed by discussion.

We wish to encourage reflection and discussions on the ways memory works 
and the ways it is used; how truth can be interpreted through the story 
and through memory, how to discern truth from fantasy, how we remember 
for the future, and through which other mediums we express memory. We 
invite contributions discussing conceptual and methodological issues 
related to memory, employing different concepts of memory based on oral 
sources and/or personal accounts.

We would welcome proposals addressing the following issues:
• Oral history as testimony; memory and reconciliation;
• Fantasy, dreams, and narrative; the truth of lies;
• Memory, body, and emotions;
• Memory and ageing; memory across time;
• Trauma and negotiating memory;
• The voice in oral history;
• How to deal with translating transcripts;
• Remembering for the future: secondary analysis in oral history;
• Recording and interpreting audiovisual history;
• Oral history on the web: presentation and dissemination

Please send your proposals to both Nanci Adler (n.adler at niod.nl) and
Daniela Koleva (daniela at sclg.uni-sofia.bg). Upon submission, you also 
have to pre-register on the conference website http://www.iisg.nl/esshc 
where more general conference information is available.
The deadline for sending your abstract is 1 April 2007.

The Network Committee advising on the 2008 ESSHC includes:
Nanci Adler n.adler at niod.nl Network Co-Chair
Timothy Ashplant T.G.Ashplant at livjm.ac.uk
Joanna Bornat j.bornat at open.ac.uk
Gerhard Botz gerhard.botz at univie.ac.at
Ela Hornung michaela.hornung at univie.ac.at,
Daniela Koleva daniela at sclg.uni-sofia.bg Network Co-Chair
Selma Leydesdorff s.leydesdorff at uva.nl
Hugo Manson h.manson at abdn.ac.uk,
Graham Smith Graham.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk
Penny Summerfield penny.summerfield at man.ac.uk

	Nanci Adler, Daniela Koleva
Email: n.adler at niod.knaw.nl; daniela at sclg.uni-sofia.bg 
<mailto:n.adler at niod.knaw.nl;%20daniela at sclg.uni-sofia.bg>
Visit the website at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc