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This year's last grant meetingof the "Biographic Narrations of Workers and Intelligentsia" project will take place on Thursday, December 14, at 2 p.m., ÚSD Vlašská 9. We would like to look back at what has been accomplished this year and take the first steps in planning the next one. We will also deal with the birth of the new Czech Oral History Association. Afterwards we invite you for a Christmas party in a nearbuy pub:). Looking forward to seeing you!  

October 31: we would like to announce that the 6th meeting of grant researcher and assistants at the project „"Biographic Narrations of Workers and Intelligentsia"" 1 is going to take place on October 31 in the library at the Institute for Contemporary History, Vlašská 9. We start at 10 am.

A presentation of The Helplessness of the Powerful Ones and the Power of the Helpless Ones, a compilation of interpretive essays based on the project An Investigation in the Czech Society of the „Normalization“ Era: Biographic Narrations of Workers and Intelligentsia, took place at the Academy of Sciences Prague (Národní 3) on 11th October.

September 27 - 28: The Oral History Center's researchers have attended a seminar called "The everyday life naratives in the context of Czech (and) Slovak historical turning points after the years 1948, 1968, 1989, 1993 from the point of view of dynamics of value changes", which took place at the Slovak Institute for Ethnology in Bratislava. Miroslav Vaněk spoke about the international trends of oral history, Pavel Mücke discussed the characteristics of French oral history, Jana Nosková presented the current state of the Workers and Intelligentsia project and Petra Schindler spoke about the juridical and ethic side of oral history.

Miroslav Vaněk	Petra Schindler	Jana Nosková	Pavel Mücke

July 12: Miroslav Vaněk has taken part in the 14th international oral history conference Dancing with memory: oral history and its audiences on 12 - 16 July 2006 in Sydney, Australia, with the paper named Victors? Vanquished?: political elites and dissidents in the years of so-called normalization (1968-1989) in Czechoslovakia. Biographical interviews. Paper abstract  here

Further conference info: http://www.une.edu.au/ioha2006/index.html

30 June: Jana Nosková and Petra Schindler have taken part in the 5th annual anthropological symposium in Plzeň. Jana Nosková has presented her paper about the usage of mental maps in the research of the identity of the town Brno and its inhabitants. Petra Schindler discussed the family life of dissidents in the so-called Nomalization era. Abstracts (in Czech) here

On June 8 – June 10 the annual Oral History Conference at Sovinec castle near Olomouc will take place, this time themed Oral History and Its Interdisciplinary Usage. > more info here

4th meeting of grant researchers and assistants at the project An investigation in the Czech society of the „normalization“ era: Biographic narrations of workers and intelligentsia“ took place on May 5, 2006. The main topic of the meeting were the methodological issues: how to choose and contact the narrators, how to conduct an interview. We heard the papers of Jana Svobodová and Zdeněk Doskočil.

Winners? Vaquished? has been chosen the book of the year 2005 by the readers of the „History and Present“ (Dějiny a současnost) magazine. > large picture /cz/

3rd meeting of grant researcher and assistants at the project „„An investigation in the Czech society of the „normalization“ era: Biographic narrations of workers and intelligentsia“ took place on April 5, 2006. The main topic of the meeting was the definition of the „workers“ group. Jana Nosková, Dalibor Státník and Tomáš Vilímek presented their papers.