[Sighfis-l] Fwd: [H-FOLK] CFP: oral history and regeneration

[Kathryn La Barre]

Of possible interest!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: dorothy noyes <noyes.10 at osu.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Subject: [H-FOLK] CFP: oral history and regeneration
To: H-FOLK at h-net.msu.edu


 Creation, Destruction, Memory: Oral History and Regeneration

Oral History Society Annual Conference: 1-2 July, 2011, University of
Sunderland in association with Sunderland University and UK Regeneration

Oral history's contribution to 'regeneration' is wide ranging. On the one
hand it has been used as a tool to encourage or improve community engagement
and participation. On the other, it has been a tool to inspire pride in a
local area or to reaffirm or create cultural identity. However, oral
history's role remains unexplored both in theory and in practice. To what
extent, for example, can oral history be the critical voice of regeneration
as well as the nostalgic voice of the past? What part does oral history play
in creating sustainable communities? To what extent should oral history and
oral historians work together alongside developers and architects?

This conference will bring together oral historians, academics, community
workers, architects, planners, politicians and local residents to explore
the uses and roles of oral history in urban and rural regeneration, covering
the built environment as well the less tangible regeneration of landscapes
and communities.

Keynote Speakers will include:
* Roger Madelin, Joint Chief Executive, Argent Group in conversation with
Alan Dein, writer and broadcaster. As property developers, Argent have a
strong track record in major developments and city centre regeneration
including Kings' Cross, Piccadilly in Manchester, Brindley Place in
Birmingham. Alan Dein is a freelance BBC Radio documentary feature
presenter, oral historian and interviewer.

* Professor Fred Robinson, Professorial Fellow at St Chad's College, Durham
University and Visiting Professor at Northumbria and Teeside Universities.
He is an expert on economic and social development and the role and impacts
of public policy and has conducted evaluations of a wide range of
regeneration initiatives

* Amber Films, renowned in the North East; one of their groundbreaking
pieces known as 'Byker', draws on Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's images and
interviews, on documentary footage and dramatisation, evoking an entire era
in British working class life. It is an intimate portrait of a community
faced with redevelopment

Key themes:

Oral history to inform regeneration: The contribution of oral history to the
process of physical/community and rural/urban regeneration; the use of oral
history by planners/architects; the roles of and relationship between
consultation and oral history; the role of the oral historian in the
process.

Oral history as part of regeneration: As a mechanism to inform and create
the future and preserve and create the past; regeneration through reclaiming
and reinterpretation; reclaiming or creating cultural change; and enabling
understanding between cultures and generations.

Oral history to reflect and evaluate regeneration: Lives and voices of the
displaced, those who have been "regenerated", as well as those working in
regeneration; assessing gains and losses and perceived successes and
failures; critiquing regeneration by listening to those whose communities
have been "regenerated"

Oral history and regeneration: Linking the past, present, and future;
continuity and discontinuity; talking about the future.

Proposals are invited of 200-250 words that address one of the four major
themes of the conference for talks or presentations of approximately 20
minutes. We are particularly keen to encourage papers from: planners,
architects, community workers, local residents and others directly involved
in regeneration. Proposals should clearly state how oral history as informed
the project/work/research described, and how it will be used in the
presentation. Please send to Belinda Waterman, conference administrator,
e-mail Belinda at essex.ac.uk by Monday, 29 November 2010.
       Shelley Trower
University of Exeter
s.j.trower at exeter.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/viewnews.php?nlink=53
-- 



-- 
Kathryn La Barre
Assistant Professor
GSLIS/ UIUC
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sighfis-l/attachments/20101202/6f1715c6/attachment.html