17º Conferencia Internacional De Historia Oral 2012
14 August 2011
The Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century:
Diversity, Inequality and Identity Construction.
BUENOS AIRES
4-7 September 2012
The International Oral History Association, IOHA and the Asociación de Historia Oral de la República Argentina, AHORA, invited/s you to participate in the XVII International Oral History Conference: “The Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century: Diversity, Inequality and Identity Construction.", to be held in Buenos Aires from 4 to 7 September 2012
Abstracts: The call will be open from 1 July to 1 October 2011
Abstract Acceptance: November 15, 2011
Final submission of papers: March 30, 2012
The organization of the conference enabled from the first of July 2011 a form for submitting abstracts / papers.
Sub-themes:
1. Heritage, museums and Oral History.
1. Archives and places of memory
Archiving Memory. Methodologies - Interviewing and the material preservation of memory
Places of Memory: management of the past from the present or the battles for memory.
2. Oral History and audiovisual images
Words and images in the construction of memory: Photographies, audiovisual resources and screenplay
Sound escapes, recreating the Sounds of the Past.
2. Theory, method and the teaching and learning of Oral History.
o Legal and Ethical Dimensions of the Practice of Oral History.
o Teaching and learning Oral History
Health Oral History.
o Health Management, Disabilities and Geriatrics.
Gender, memory and politics
o Permanent Scars of Violence in Memory: Gender Violence, Femicide, and the Reconstruction of
the Memories of Victims of Violence.
o Body Politics: The Construction of Gender Identities, and Sexual Identities.
o Queer Theory and Transgender Studies.
Memories, politics and militancy
o NGOs Political Groups, Political Agency and Individuals. The construction of the Feminist Movement
Memory, Oral History and dictatorships
o Research on Living Under Dictatorship/Totalitarianism
Oral History and the world of work
o Individual and Collective Perceptions of the World of Work: Unions, Factory, and Gender
Control in the Workplace.
1. Territorial social organizations and workers’ self-management
Oral History and Economy
0. Businessmen, businesswomen, companies and Oral History
Individual and collective perception of the economics process: companies, businessmen and economic policies.
1. Memories of the “Other economies”
Co-operative movement, social, solidarity and participative economy, self management. Recuperated enterprises by his workers.
2. The Wounds of Economic Crisis in Memory:
Memory, Welfare, and Economic Crisis.
Ecology and Environment:
o Natural Heritage and the Social Effects of Major Natural Disasters.
Memory and trauma
o Human rights violation. Citizenship and the Re-Signifying the National Space: National
Identities, and the Fight for Citizenship Rights.
o Memories of survivors of war, terrorist attacks and genocides.
Art, culture, memory and Oral History
o The Pleasures of Memory: Artistic Expression and the Representation of Memory.
o Working class culture, art and politics
Migration, Exile, Diasporas, and Borderlands.
o Internal migrations, migrations from neighboring countries, diasporas and exile
Natives people, memory, politics and Oral History
o Culture, traditions and identities. Stories of resistance: colonialism, racism and exploitation. Current fights: territory, autonomy, education.
Memory, Oral History and community
o Teaching and learning narratives, educative experiences, school life. Family and
intergenerational exchange.
o Maternity, Paternity and the Transmission of the Cultural Heritage.
1. Shared Beliefs, Religious Traditions, and the Oral Transmission.
2. Non-hegemonic cultures and Oral History
Tradition and Memory: Communities, Histories, Heritage and Traditions.
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