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CENTRE FOR LIFE HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS Summer Term 2005
10th May: Gillian Weaver, Sussex University.
Stability, Ability, Work & Learning: a longitudinal and comparative study
of the effects of adult education programmes upon problem drug users.
This research was a qualitative, longitudinal life history study carried
out over seven years with 21 drug dependent people, 10 women in Dublin and
11 people in Liverpool. Each had attended an adult education programme
designed for stable or former drug users. The SAOL Project in Dublin aims
to raise participants’ personal and political understanding of their
situation, enabling them to generate constructive change. Transit in
Liverpool is founded on the principle of economic regeneration and aims to
move participants towards becoming work ready. The primary research aim was
to ascertain whether the participants were able to sustain the positive
benefits they experienced from participating in SAOL or Transit through the
four or five years following completion of the programme and to compare the
effects of two different types of projects.
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17th May 4-6 pm: Joint seminar with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies,
Sussex University.
Suzanne Bunkers, Professor of English at Minnesota State University.
What I’ve learned by studying diaries and memoirs.
Suzanne Bunkers will present her latest research on the ethical and
practical issues she’s explored in studying diaries, memories and testimony
of women Holocaust survivors.
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24th May: Sian Edwards, Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, Brighton
University & Krista Woodley, Oral History Unit, Southampton City Council.
Haemophilia and HIV Life History Project.
Twenty years ago, in 1985, over 1,200 people with Haemophilia were told
that they had been infected with HIV through contaminated blood products.
The Haemophilia and HIV Life History Project, based at Brighton University,
has conducted 30 interviews to explore these people's experiences and the
impact of having haemophilia and living with HIV.
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Thursday 26 May from 2-5pm :
Mass-Observation Archive Open Afternoon 2005.
Also a celebration of the publication of
We Europeans?: Mass-Observation, ‘Race’ & British Identity in the Twentieth
Century (Ashgate, 2004) by Tony Kushner, Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish
History, University of Southampton, who will be speaking about his new
book. There will also be displays of material and a chance to meet staff
from the Archive. All welcome, but please contact us if you would like to
come as places are limited.
Telephone 01273 67 8157 or email [log in to unmask]
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All seminars will take place in the Library Meeting Room (2nd floor),
University of Sussex, from 12.30-2.00 pm, Tuesdays unless indicated
otherwise.
For further information about the seminars, email Claire Langhamer or
Teresa Cairns:
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Sue Brown, Centre for Continuing Education, Sussex Institute,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RG
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