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