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This message has been sent through the MASSOBS discussion list. Remember, clicking 'reply' sends your message to the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CENTRE FOR LIFE HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS - Spring Term 2006 All seminars will take place in the University of Sussex Library, Library meeting room (2nd floor), from 12.30-2.00 pm. 31st January: Toby Butler, geography department, Royal Holloway, University of London and the Museum of London. A walk of art: sound walks, oral history and landscape. In an effort to make oral history recordings more interesting to the public, I have spent three years developing two 'memoryscapes', outdoor walks that involve playing memories on a CD walkman or MP3 player at specific points along the journey. In this talk I will be discussing sound artwork that uses walking and memory, and report on my efforts to create and evaluate two sound walks of my own, along the river Thames in London, using original interviews as well as archive recordings from the Museum in Docklands collection. The walks can be experienced online at www.memoryscape.org.uk 7th February: Krista Woodley, freelance oral historian, Southampton Oral History Unit and the University of Brighton. Riveting Stories: Southampton Oral History Unit's Vosper Thorneycroft oral history project Southampton Oral History Unit's Vosper Thorneycroft oral history project recorded oral history interviews with over 50 people who worked in a local Southampton shipyard that recently closed. Krista will talk about the project, producing an exhibition and a book, and the local community's response. 28th February: Mark Bhatti & Jayne Raisborough, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton. The Hoover in the Garden? Empowerment and Resistance in Women's Leisure We explore empowerment and resistance in the leisure site of the domestic garden. The use and meanings of the domestic garden are continually(re) negotiated, and can act as a place for empowerment which may (or may not) flow through to resistance of gender norms. The garden promises some space for agency for women; it can be a source of freedom, artful creativity, self-expression, and independence; the extent to which this always results in resistance is problematised. One woman's gardening story (drawn from the Mass Observation Archive) tells of the significance of the garden in her childhood and her family, as well as the re-positioning of herself within gendered norms. 7th March: Rocío G. Davis, University of Navarra, Spain. Cultural Histories: Reading the Family Memoirs of the Asian Diaspora This presentation explores the creation of cultural memory through Asian North American family memoirs, to understand how they function in the intersecting projects of reclaiming history and building community. These purposes lead us to understand the need to continually address the cultural work enacted by these literary texts, as well as their specific aesthetic projects as mutually enhancing and intertwined purposes. For further information about the seminars, email Gerry Holloway or Teresa Cairns:[log in to unmask] To be put on the mailing list, please send an email to [log in to unmask] or postal address to: CLHR, Centre for Continuing Education, Sussex Institute, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave this list email [log in to unmask] Alternatively, send the following command to [log in to unmask] leave massobs --