A conference bringing together archive and other heritage professionals
with the subjects and users (and potential users!) of - and participants
in - our services:
"The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Telling the story and
sharing the experience of residential child care."
Date: Friday September 16th and Saturday September 17th
Venue: University of Birmingham Medical School
£70 including lunches and refreshments. Friday evening conference dinner
£15.
Online Registration:
https://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=350&deptid=17&catid=3
A limited number of bursaries are available
FURTHER INFORMATION (full programme below):
Hosted by the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham
and the Planned Environment Therapy Trust (PETT) in Toddington,
Gloucestershire, this conference is based on the work of a 21-month
project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which researched and
recorded British children’s experiences of residential care in the
second half of the twentieth century.
The conference reaches out to storytellers among former 'disturbed'
children, former staff, and current students to explore the issues of
living and reliving traumatic and disrupted childhoods, and the complex
issues involved in sharing these experiences with the wider world. It is
a conference for historians of child care and of medicine, heritage
professionals, professionals working with children, former children in
care, storytellers, former staff, policy makers, managers,
administrators and parents.
"The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting":
Telling the story and sharing the experiences of residential child care
16-17 September 2011
University of Birmingham Medical School, Edgbaston, Birmingham
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
9.15
Registration and coffee.
Films and other a/v storytelling in the coffee room and conference room
10.00 Welcome and Introduction, Dr. Tom Harrison, Chair, Institute for
the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments
10.10 The Planned Environment Therapy Trust and "The Work": An Overview.
Richard Rollinson, Executive Director, Planned Environment Therapy Trust
10.30 The "Therapeutic Living" project: Origins and Overview: Dr. Craig
Fees, Project Director, "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children"
10.50 Participants' Experience: Former children/staff in recorded, live
discussion. Facilitator/interviewer: Gemma Geldart, Project Oral
Historian, "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children"
11.15 Coffee. Films and other a/v storytelling
11.30 History of Children in Care: An Historian's View. Dr. Jonathan
Reinarz, Director, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham
12.10 From 'Care' to Community: A Professional's Journey Adrian Ward,
Consultant Social Worker, Tavistock Clinic
12.40 Discussion
13.00 LUNCH
13.50 Telling the Story: A story told: Ian Burley, Former Child, Shotton
Hall
14.10 Hearing and Recording: Oral History 1: Gemma Geldart, Project Oral
Historian, "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children"
14.30 Hearing and Recording: Oral History 2: Gudrun Limbrick, Oral
Historian, The Birmingham Childrens Home Oral History Project;
Erdington Cottage Homes project
14.50 Hearing and Recording: Oral History 3: Elaine Harris, Social
Historian, the Kibble Cetnre Lasting Legacy project
15.10 Coffee
15.25 It's our history; it's our right, reclaiming our past!: Darren
Coyne, The Care Leavers' Association
15.45 Holding and Managing the Story: Archives and Children in Care:
Dr. Sian Roberts, Head of Collections Development, Birmingham Archives
and Heritage
16.05 Holding, Gathering, Listening and Memory: Discussion
16.30 END
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
09.00 Registration/Coffee
Film and other a/v storytelling
09.30 Introduction to the day: Tom Harrison, Chair of the Institute for
the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE)
09.35 Listening, Meaning, History: A View: Dr. Jonathan Toms, Fellow,
Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE)
10.10 A Journey Through Meaning via Objects: Richard Rollinson,
Executive Director, Planned Environment Therapy Trust
10.35 Issues from the project: Project Staff , "Therapeutic Living With
Other People's Children"
10.55 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
CASE STUDY: "mal-ad-just'-ed": A performance piece
11.30 About the Performance: Setting the Scene: Stephen Steinhaus,
Assistant Principal, Trinity Catholic School, Leamington Spa
11.50 About the Performance: Participants' Experience. Community Members
12.20 About the Performance: Building and Results: Trinity Catholic
School students
13.00 Lunch
14.00 PERFORMANCE: "mal-ad-just'-ed : (stories of other people's
children)" Trinity Catholic School Performance Group
14.50 Group Discussion and Feedback
15.10 Coffee
15.25 Panel Discussion: Memory, Listening, Forgetting, Telling
David Crane (former child), Janet Nixon (Heritage Professional), Billy
Smallwood (Practitioner/Consultant), Dr. Mark Smith (Practitioner/Academic)
16.15 Looking Back and Looking Ahead: The National Picture: John
Diamond, CEO, The Mulberry Bush Organisation
16.40 Concluding word and thanks. Richard Rollinson, Executive
Director, Planned Environment Therapy Trust
16.45 CONFERENCE ENDS
Online Registration:
https://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=350&deptid=17&catid=3
Date: Friday September 16th and Saturday September 17th
Venue: University of Birmingham Medical School
£70 including lunches and refreshments. Friday evening conference dinner
£15.
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Dr. Craig Fees, RMARA
Archivist
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Church Lane
Toddington near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom
01242 620125
http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
http://www.otherpeopleschildren.org.uk
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