From:
Rob Perks
British Library National Sound Archive
LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
ORAL HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Oral History Society Annual Conference
with the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex,
Brighton, England, 15-16 May 1999
CALL FOR PAPERS
Offers of papers and other forms of presentation are invited for this
interdisciplinary, international conference which will explore the
relationships between memory and place and the contested meanings of
diverse human and physical landscapes. The proposed conference themes
are as follows:
Memory and Place (place & identities, tradition & change, urban &
rural, ownership & contested meanings, gender & cultural differences,
'coming in' & staying put)
Protest (political / environmental movements, conservation & change,
disputes & confrontations, rights & boundaries, contested accounts of
arrival & ownership)
Green Lifestyles (creating new societies & communities, buildings &
camp sites, conflicting lifestyles, alternative ecologies, retreats &
revolutions)
Heritage (preserving the past, creating traditions, collecting &
archiving, museums & exhibitions, public and participatory histories
of place)
Oral History and Development (using traditional knowledges in
development, oral history for change, urban & rural, 'North' &
'South')
Presentations may be offered in any of the following formats:
conference paper, workshop activity, exhibition, poster display,
multimedia presentation (other formats by negotiation). We intend to
organise an exciting, participatory conference which will include the
wide range of media in which memories of place are represented and
explored. Conference activities will include local tours and regional
exhibitions.
Prospective participants should send two copies of their proposal on a
single A4 sheet including the following details: name, address, phone,
fax and email numbers, title of presentation, format of presentation
(see above), relevant conference theme/s, and a brief summary of the
proposed presentation.
Proposals should be sent to Steve Hussey, History Department, Essex
University, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, before 1 November 1998.
Email enquiries to Steve Hussey ([log in to unmask]), Joanna Bornat
([log in to unmask]), Al Thomson ([log in to unmask]) or Rob
Perks ([log in to unmask])
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