[My guess is that we could get a billion solid papers from this list. 
That would be a powerful result for therapeutic community]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Reminder

"DISPLACED CHILDHOODS:
Oral history and traumatic experience"

Oral History Society Annual Conference: 2012
held in association with the Research Centre for Evacuee and War Child 
Studies, University of Reading

Venue: University of Reading
Date: July 13-14, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 December 2011
(Details for submission below)

The next Oral History Society annual conference, "Displaced Childhoods: 
Oral history and traumatic experience",  will take place in the United 
Kingdom in Reading, Berkshire, on 13-14 July 2012. The conference aims 
to bring together oral history practitioners with others who explore the 
topic of disturbed, disrupted and traumatic childhoods within academic, 
community and therapeutic settings.

Oral history has been increasingly utilised as a way of exploring and 
understanding the effects of war, evacuation and conflict on children, 
as well as former children; the treatment and welfare of children living 
in war zones and the wider disruption to family life. This conference 
aims to address both internal migration and the global movement of 
children from countries such as Spain, Germany, the former Yugoslavia 
and Iraq throughout the course of the Twentieth Century, and in 
particular the long-term psychological and emotional impact. Other 
themes the conference aims to address include the 'Forgotten Children', 
forcibly migrated to Australia/USA/Canada; childhood experience of 
natural and civil disasters; disrupted childhoods; long-term separation 
and segregation, including children's homes, hospitalisation, and the 
development of therapeutic environments for children and young people 
with emotional, social and behavioural difficulties. We would like to 
hear from people who have used oral history in working with fostering, 
crime and juvenile delinquency, children of alcoholic or mentally 
disturbed parents, young people in mental institutions, or those who 
have grown up in violent households.

Papers are invited which draw on current projects or recently completed 
work using oral history and related methods which address these topics. 
We would particularly welcome papers on the methodological and ethical 
issues surrounding working with traumatic or potentially traumatic 
narratives of childhood – how to deal with sensitive issues, the 
question of interviewing adults recalling their childhood selves, 
reflection on the interview process and the experience of recording with 
children, and the use of oral history within therapeutic contexts.

The conference will be of interest to all those working in the field of 
oral history, as well as a wide range of child care and other professionals.

Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words by 31 December 2011 to 
Belinda Waterman: Department of History, University of Essex Wivenhoe 
Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
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