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Updates for Voice in Oral History Conference 2009: keynote speakers and funding
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-01-05 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-12-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
165563 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS: VOICE IN ORAL HISTORY
Friday-Saturday 3-4 July 2009, Oral History Society Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
In association with Scottish Oral History Group, Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, UHI Millennium Institute, Scottish Working Peoples’ History Trust, Aberdeen & Region Oral History Association
Keynote speakers
Professor Steven High
Professor of Public History and Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal.
Anne Karpf
British writer, journalist, broadcaster and sociologist; author of the acclaimed The Human Voice: The Story of a Remarkable Talent.
Rab Wilson
Scots poet, recent holder of the Robert Burns Fellowship and winner of 2008 McCash Scots Poetry Competition. A former mining engineer and currently a psychiatric nurse.
Oral history is spoken history. The core evidence we gather is the voice, the core vehicle of the evidence we collect is the voice. Later, typically, summaries and transcripts appear, analyses are written, outcomes in various forms are produced. But at the start is the voice, the original vehicle for the transfer of evidence from human memory to the world. We have entered a period of great change in the technical nature of gathering, processing and archiving oral history, of archiving the voice. It is timely, therefore, for the OHS to bring a focus onto this essential aspect of the work we all do, to centre-stage the instrument and the notion of voice around which all our research, interviewing and technical expertise revolve, to look at what we are doing in terms of voice, voices, the voice. It is appropriate to examine in our oral history projects what information and evidence we are gathering as voice that might not be revealed in transcript and other forms of documentation.
Proposals are invited on any of the following themes:
THEME ONE: The nature of voice as evidence in oral history and its relation to period, culture and place. Voice as data, music, language, performance, political expression, literature, spoken text, memory, instrument, poetry, primary source. Voice and the mediation of speech, dialect, accent, tone, silence.
THEME TWO: Hearing voice in community through oral history. The voice and voices of communities, voice as an expression of being within and being without; voice in storytelling; voice and disability; voice and gender; voice and ethnicity; voice and environment; voice and reminiscence. Voice in the museum. Voice and power; voice and tradition.
THEME THREE: Voice in oral history in the age of new technology. The implications of digitisation and dissemination of the voice through the internet and other digital media; rights and ownership of voice in the digital age; voice analysis; the mechanics of voice; voice and forensics; voice and translation; voice and the public media.
Please send proposals of 200-250 words, for talks or presentations of 20 minutes, to oralhistory09@strath.ac.uk by 5 January 2009.
Funding:
Financial support is available from the Scottish Oral History Centre (University of Strathclyde) and the Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care (University of Strathclyde & Glasgow Caledonian University) in the form of bursaries to help cover travel expenses, accommodation and fees specifically for the following:
1. Community oral historians giving papers with no institutional support
2. Postgraduate students (and other unwaged) giving papers with no institutional support
3. Any presenters in the history of medicine / health fields giving papers with no institutional support
If you fall within these categories and would like to apply for support please indicate this when you submit your presentation proposal.
Please send proposals of 200-250 words, for talks or presentations of 20 minutes, to oralhistory09@strath.ac.uk by 5 January 2009.
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