Oral History: Theory and Practice - Day Workshop
Date:
14/05/2019
Organised by:
University of Liverpool
Presenter:
Dr Andrew Redden
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Map:
View in Google Maps (L69 7ZQ)
Venue:
Gordon Stephenson Building,
Liverpool
Building number 109 (D3) on the University's Campus Map
Description:
Oral History: Theory and Practice
Last Booking Date: 12th May 2019
Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Time: 10am-5pm. Hour break for lunch (1-2pm)
Place: University of Liverpool (South Campus) Seminar Room G33, Gordon Stephenson Building.
Facilitators: Andrew Redden and Moya Frances.
This will be an interactive day-long workshop in which participants will engage with the theoretical, practical and ethical challenges associated with oral history research. The workshop will consist of a number of introductory talks about themes, group exercises and discussions as well as feedback sessions between participants and the two facilitators. Drawing on their most recent oral-history research in Liverpool and El Salvador, as well as the respective experience and intentions of the workshop participants, the workshop will cover the following themes:
- An introductory history of oral history
- Theory: a) Accuracy and Representativeness
- Theory: b) Narrative, Performance and the Self
- Practice: a) Interview Process and Technique
- Practice: b) Ethics
Over the course of the workshop participants will obtain a broad, yet in-depth understanding of the theory of oral history together with an understanding of how oral histories are constructed and affected by both interviewee and interviewer. You will gain a working knowledge of how you might obtain historical data through interviews, the problems that this might entail, and how these problems might be overcome, alongside an in-depth consideration of the related ethical issues. Above all else, the workshop will provide participants with a firm sense of how oral history might be applied as a core research methodology.
Cost:
£50
Website and registration:
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Data Collection, Participant Recruitment, Qualitative Interviewing, Data Collection (other), Data Management , Quality in Qualitative Research, Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Oral History , Memory , Translation (problems of) , Source/textual analysis
Related publications and presentations:
Data Collection
Participant Recruitment
Qualitative Interviewing
Data Collection (other)
Data Management
Quality in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis