Workshop: Stories of Trauma, Survival, and Resilience in the Czech Republic. An Oral History Conversation in Honor of George Placzek
Místo konání: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Gabčíkova 10, Praha 8
Zkušené i začínající badatelé orálních dějin zveme na workshop připravený v rámci nového bilaterálního projektu Československo-polské vědecké sítě. První výsledky bude prezentovat Tomáš W. Pavlíček z IH PAN ve Varšavě. Cílem je diskutovat specifika rozhovorů s vědci.
Hlavním lektorem workshopu je prof. Paul Burnett, který se dlouhodobě zabývá dějinami vědy a je ředitelem Centra orálních dějin na univerzitě v Berkeley. V USA vedl řadu orálně historických projektů a díky podpoře Nadace rodiny českého fyzika židovského původu Georga Placzeka přijede prezentovat své rozhovory s brněnskými fyziky ze školy Martina Černohorského.
Confirm your participation untill Sep 5, 2022: tpavlicek@ihpan.edu.pl
Oral History Workshop Schedule
Paul Burnett, Oral History Center, UC Berkeley
Tomáš Pavlíček, Instytut Historii PAN, Warszawa
A one-day workshop will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague on September 12, 2022. The following sessions will cover the theory and practice of oral history with respect to project management; narrator and community involvement; legal and ethical practices; traumainformed
interviewing; and archiving, interpretation, public history, and technology.
- 8:30-9:00 am Introductions and objectives for the day
- 9:00 – 10:00 am The nature and history of oral history This introduction distinguishes the field and practice of oral history from other types of interviewing, historical research, and archiving. We will discuss concepts of the self, shared authority and intersubjectivity.
- 10 am – 10:10 am Short break
- 10:10 – 11:30 am Managing an oral history project This session breaks down the complete workflow of an oral history project from start to finish.
- 11:30 am – 12:15 pm Trust and oral history. Introduction to the interview process, informed consent, and legal and ethical concerns with oral history.
- 12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch – open discussion
- 1:15 – 2:15 Oral history recording, interpretation, public history, and archiving Attendees who have registered in advance may be asked to watch a one-hour recording before the session about recording practices. What do you do once you have your recordings? What are the advantages and challenges associated with emerging technologies and platforms? Introduction to the multimedia public history universe, with examples.
- 2:15 – 2:45 Trauma-informed oral history – Discussion of interview techniques, challenges, and the literature on trauma-informed narrative.
- 2:45 – 4:30 Institutional oral history, trauma, and healing This will be a more open conversation among historians about the risks and promise of oral history: oral history in wartime, oral history and vulnerable or marginalized populations. As oral history practice becomes more accessible and ubiquitous, how do narrators and historians navigate issues of agency, safety, control, and power?
Presentation of two oral history projects:
- Paul Burnett, The Czech Physics Oral History Project
- Tomáš Pavlíček, Czechoslovak-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in the Cold War
