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Our panel examines people's memories about places from which they were forcefully relocated. The first paper will examine people relocated from neighborhoods lost to open-pit copper mine development in the U.S.'s Rocky Mountains (1950s-70s). It asks how nostalgia for mining's industrial heyday in the American West affects people's memories of now-vanished neighborhoods. The second paper will examine Central American refugees' memories/imaginings of their home nations from their sites of exile (1980s). We are looking for additional panelists who examine similar issues in other geographical regions or time periods. We are especially interested in scholars who use oral history as a primary methodology.
Thanks-
Brian Leech, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Molly Todd, Asst. Prof. of History, Augustana College (IL)
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