Programme
FRIDAY 25 MAY 2012
- 9:00
- Opening Conference
- Riki Van Boeschoten
- Welcome. New beginnings in challenging times
- Antonis Liakos
- Why Oral History? >>
- 10:30-11:45
- Oral history and museums
Coordinator: Maria Repousi
- Andromachi Gazi
- The museum as a place of interaction between individual and collective memory >>
- Maria Vlachaki
- Co-creating a museum exhibition on migration: students and parents explore ways to present immigrants’ life stories in a museum >>
- Esther Solomon
- Museums and oral histories: empowering memories and social relations >>
- 11:45-12:15
- Coffee break
- 12:15-13:45
- Oral history and digital technologies
Coordinator: Dimitris Bilalis
- Toby Butler
- Memoryscapes: experiments in deepening our sense of place >>
- Stavros Alifragkis, George Papakonstantinou
- An audio-visual database for post-war architecture and the city in Greece >>
- Michael Warlas
- The archive without body. Cultural memory and digital oral history archives >>
- Dafni Tragaki, Giorgos Papakonstantinou
- Trails / narrative and the trails of narrative >>
- 13:45-14:30
- The intergenerational memory of Asia Minor refugees
Coordinator: Giorgos Tsiolis
- Vasiliki Amorati
- The story of a life: re-covering the silent voices of the Greek Orthodox population of Smyrna during the early twentieth century >>
- Libby Tata Arcel
- Coping with the trauma of the Asia Minor Catastrophe: the transformation of the traumatic experiences of the first generation of a Greek family from Pergamon to the third generation descendants >>
- 14:30-16:00
- Lunch
- 16:00-17:40
- Oral narratives and religious communities
Coordinator: Rika Benveniste
- Elli Kosteletou
- “Music is Seva”: tradition, improvisation, collective memory and the role of the researcher in the field >>
- Diana Riboli
- Between the hammer and sickle and the cross. The crisis of the political and religious identity in the oral histories of the Chepang of Nepal >>
- Lena Inowlocki
- Making sense of religious belongings. Reconstructing reflexivity in autobiographical narratives >>
- Joanna Bornat, Daniela Koleva
- Oral history crossing national boundaries: a study of belief and non belief in three European countries >>
- 17.40-18.00
- Coffee break
- 18:00-19:30
- Memory and forgetting of the 1940s
Coordinator: Polymeris Voglis
- Katerina Anagnostaki
- Oral history and fear: oral testimonies from the 1940s >>
- Pothiti Hantzaroula
- The social dimension of memory in testimonies of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Greece >>
- Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
- “Eyes shut, muted voices”: narrating the post civil war era through a monument >>
- Olga Sevastidou
- Communities of memory and oblivion: the construction of memory in life story narratives of Pontic Greeks about the persecutions and deportations of the Stalinist era in the USSR (1937-1949) >>
- 19:30-21:00
- Aspects of the present economic crisis through life stories
Coordinator: Diana Riboli
- Anastasia Kafe, Yannis Tsirbas
- Crisis, unemployment and politics: a biographical approach >>
- Emilia Salvano
- Personal and collective memories of migration in times of crisis. The adventures of the Pakistani migrant’s community of memory in Athens >>
- Christos Tsarouchidis
- The “life stories” and “versions of truth” as reliable evidence:
the case of homeless people in modern Greece >>
- Christina Adamou, Yannis Vlachopoulos, Pavlos Pantazis, Mayia Tsamprou
- The chronicle of a long winter >>
SATURDAY 26 MAY 2012
- 9:30-11:00
- Saratsi Hall: Life stories and gendered subjectivity
Coordinator: Vasiliki Yiakoumaki
- Irene Kambriani
- When biography and biology enter into dialogue: the narrative negotiation of the family history of disease >>
- Dimitra Lambropoulou
- Individual lives and historical change: the experience of postwar internal migration from the perspective of oral history >>
- Nikolas Christakis
- Women motorcyclists: gender migrants on the borders of non-community >>
- Ioanna Bibli
- Women and crisis: a negotiation between continuity and change >>
- 9:30-11:00
- Room Θ: Oral history and education Ι
Coordinator: Kostas Magos
- Katerina Trimi-Kyrou
- Motivating empathy: oral history as a tool for antiracist education >>
- Georgia Kouseri, Michalis Katsibardis
- Oral histories of the Holocaust and their interpretation in the present >>
- Irene Nakou
- Collection and interpretation of oral narratives as a history-learning process at different levels of education >>
- Sofia Avgeri
- From “learning” to the “creation” of history. An oral history program on the Bulgarian occupation with high school students >>
- 11:00-12:30
- Saratsi Hall: From personal to community memory
Coordinator: Penelope Papailia
- Athina Daskalaki
- Photo stories: The ‘narration’ of the photographs of Asia Minor refugees >>
- Tryfon Babilis
- Photographic traditions and Aegean modernities. An ethnographic biography approach >>
- Manos Savvakis
- “My story “is” the history of the community!” Empowerment, collective identity and images of the self >>
- Yannis Zaimakis
- Contested worlds in the outskirts of cities. The musical biography of a rebetis over the course of the 20th century >>
- 11:00-12:30
- Room Θ: Oral history and education ΙΙ
Coordinator: Irene Nakou
- Ioulia Pentazou
- “The lives of our grandparents”: an educational experiment of oral history for primary students >>
- Kostas Magos
- «Others’ Stories»: The biographic narratives as starting point of transformative learning in higher education >>
- Manos Dalkavoukis, Ioannis Manos
- Anthropology, oral history and education:
training future professionals through experiential learning >>
- Nikolaos Grekos
- Student recording actions of the local historical memory. Educational approaches and questions about method and meaning >>
- 12:30-13:00
- Coffee break
- 13:00-14:30
- Saratsi Hall: Healing with life stories
Coordinator: Pavlos Pantazis
- Stelios Pelasgos
- Building a storytelling community while revisiting local history. The Volos experience >>
- Aegli Brouskou
- Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman. Exchanging fοlktales with life stories in an elders home >>
- Stelios Krasanakis
- The long journey of language through the body >>
- Grigoris Abatzoglou
- Listening to the others: biography and autobiography in psychotherapeutic sessions with children >>
- 16:00-17:30
- Communities and oral testimonies
Coordinator: Dimitra Lambropoulou
- Eleni Kovani
- The polysemia of simple oral stories >>
- Ioannis Kolakis
- Conversions to Islam and the massacre of Chios. Grey identities: the example of Ibrahim Edhem Pasha and Mustapha Khaznadar >>
- Alexandra Pudliszak
- Studying Gypsy history in Argentina. The necessity of anthropological approach >>
- Kateřina Králová
- «Our tears dried up…»: personal accounts of the Greek community in Czechoslovakia >>
- 17:30-18:00
- Coffee break
- 18:00-20:00
- Oral history and biographical research: methods and reflexivity
Coordinator: Tasoula Vervenioti
- Christina Alexopoulou
- Role and position of the receivers of oral testimonies >>
- Rea Kakaboura
- Secondary narrative analysis of biographical interviews: a workshop >>
- Maria Thanopoulou, Chrysanthi Zachou
- Between Oral History and oral histories: the management of collective memory and the role of the social researcher >>
- Yorgos Tsiolis
- Theoretical and methodological controversies in biographical sociological research >>
- Konstandina Bada
- Reusing and revaluating archive materials of oral history. The example of a corpus of silversmiths’ life stories >>
- 20:00-20:45
- Keynote speech
Coordinator: Pothiti Hantzaroula
- Paul Thompson
- Is it worth forming an Oral History Society? Some reflections from English experience >>
- Dinner
SUNDAY 27 MAY 2012
- 9:30-11:00
- Round-table discussion: Communities write their history: oral history groups, experiences and methods
Coordinator: Maria Thanopoulou
- Maria Repousi, Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou
- The oral history project of Hania, Crete >>
- Oral History Group of Kypseli: Iakovos Anyfantakis, Tasoula Vervenioti, Katerina Kyriakou, Argyro Kyriakouli
- History and stories from the neighbourhood >>
- 11:00-11:30
- Coffee break
- 11:30-12:00
- Keynote speech
Coordinator: Riki Van Boeschoten
- Robert Perks
- Looking critically at different modes of collecting oral history >>
- 12:00-14:30
- Creation of a non-profit association
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