CALL FOR PAPERS: EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 21st
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DISPLACED CHILDHOODS:
Oral history and traumatic experiences
13-14 July 2012
Annual Conference of the Oral History Society
at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
Papers are invited that draw on current projects or recently completed
work using oral history and related methods, which address the themes of
disrupted and traumatic childhoods.
This conference aims to bring together oral history practitioners in
academic, community and therapeutic settings who explore the effects
that evacuation, forced migration or long-term separation can have on
children. Oral history interviewing is often used to document the
experiences and study the long-term psychological and emotional impact
of disrupted childhoods as a result of war, conflict, evacuation or
natural and civil disasters.
Other themes may include
internal or global movement of children throughout the twentieth century
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,
the development of therapeutic environments for children and young
people with emotional, social and behavioural disorders.
experiences of 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.
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.
In association with the Research Centre for Evacuee and War Child
Studies, University of Reading
Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words by 21 January 2012 to
Belinda Waterman
Department of History, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester,
CO4 3SQ
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