Saturday, 16 March 2019 (Room 243, Senate House)
History, Ethnography and Memory
11.00 Historical methods and archives (Carlos Lopez Galviz, Lancaster)
The session will discuss four concepts central to the practice of history, namely, context and interpretation, diachrony and synchrony, the where and the how of doing history (archives), and causes and path dependencies. It will conclude with a brief reflection on the relationship between history and the future’
12.00 Ethnography and fieldwork (Chandra Morrison, LSE)
Drawing on ethnographic methods such as participant observation, this session will address working with people in the field and will provide an opportunity to think about how interpersonal interactions and approaches can be applied to Modern Languages research
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 Introduction to oral history, fieldwork and collections (Michael Kandiah, KCL)
15.30 Tea break
16.00 The politics of memory, secondary witnessing and postmemory (Diane Silverthorne, Central Saint Martins)
With all best wishes.
Katia Pizzi
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
Director, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
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INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
International Conference Memories of the Future, 29-30 March 2019
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