Oral History Network
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The Warwick Oral History Network aims at developing a network of researchers from a variety of disciplines who are interested in oral history research, or who are collecting interviews. It engages both with theoretical and practical issues involved in interviewing and life writing. Following on the interdisciplinary seminar on ‘Challenging dominant discourses of the past: 1968 and the value of oral history’ The network was launched in June 2011 and a number of events, including a conference on gender and subjectivity with Prof. Penny Summerfield (Manchester) as keynote speaker, have taken place since. EVENTSSeminar, 9 July 2012 2-4pm on oral history and the community. With Stacey Bains (Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry), Helen Ford (Modern Records Centre), and Colin Hyde (East Midlands Oral History Archive) - click here IAS workshop, 24 February 2012, 'Narrating a Gendered Self in Post-War Britain', organised by network member Celia Hughes - click here Researcher to Researcher event, 29 November 2011, with Angela Davis, Laura King and Celia Hughes - click here Conference, 24 November 2011, 'Gender, Subjectivity and Oral History', with keynote speaker Prof. Penny Summerfield - click here Seminar 'What is oral history?', 13 October 2011 2-4pm with Anna Davin - click here Oral History Network Launch Seminar, 14 June 2011 - click here TRAINING Click here LINKS & RESOURCES Canadian Oral History Association Centre for the study of Cultural Memory East Midlands Oral History Archive Oral History Association Oral History at the British Library Oral history guide Oral History Network of Ireland Oral History Society Research guides Summary of Alessandro Portelli's lecture Theatres of Memory, Memory as Theatre
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| NAME | AFFILIATION | RESEARCH INTERESTS |
| Malik Ahmad | Department of History, University of Warwick | Nonviolent Movements of Pakistan 1947-2007; oral history |
| Katherine Angel | Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick | History of twentieth-century psychiatry, sexology, feminism, and sexuality, especially from post-1945 to the present day; American and British psychiatry; the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of American psychiatry; sexual dysfunctions in psychiatry, medicine and popular culture |
| Catherine Baker | University of Southampton | Former soldiers and interpreters and peacekeeping in Bosnia |
| Sarah Jane Bell | Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln | Cross generational oral history; educational experiences of gypsy travellers; race and gender |
| Abigail Bernard | Independent researcher | Community heritage oral history; life stories and African & Caribbean history in the UK |
| Judith Beyer | Max Planke Institute for Social Anthroplogy, Halle (Germany) | Social anthropology; Central Asia |
| Bruno Bonomo | Department of History Culture and Religion, University of Rome (Italy) | Urban history; oral history; housing and urban lifestyles in post-war Italy; the relationship between dwelling space (the home, its surroundings, and its location) and social identity |
| Maud Bracke | School of Humanities, University of Glasgow | 1970s feminism; 1968 in Italy, France, Czechoslovakia; parties and movements of the left; memory |
| Jane Bradburn | Independent researcher | Oral history |
| Hannah Bradshaw | School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool | The appropriation and adaptation of media sources by indigenous communities in Colombia and Venezuela |
| Ramona Braun | HPS, University of Cambridge | Infertility diagnosis and treatment from the 1950s-1980s |
| Anita Broad | The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Sussex | Rural women's sport |
| Lisa Calevi | Department of Art History, University of Oregon in Eugene (USA) | Women; Jewish community in Venice |
| Rebecca Clifford | Department of History and Classics, University of Swansea | 1968 in Italy |
| Fiona Cosson | Department of History, University of Northampton | Oral history; memory studies; the role of local history in the understanding; memories and articulation of senses of community |
| Tracy Craggs | Independent researcher | Military personnel from the 1930s to the present; Holocaust survivors; peace campaigners; farmers and environmental issues |
| Angela Davis | Department of History, University of Warwick | British twentieth-century social history; motherhood, childhood and the family; child development; health and welfare in post-war Britain; oral history |
| Saniye Dedeoglu | School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick | Turkish family-owned businesses and female employment, ethnic economy and the social inclusion of migrants in the wider society |
| Sarah De Nardi | Department of Geography, University of Hull |
Embodied and emotional landscapes of the Italian Resistance; veteran memories of WWII |
| Karin Eli | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford | Eating disorders; selfhood, embodiment, and identity; the social implications of genetic research; public understanding of biomedical science; the history of psychiatric genetic research; narratives and oral history |
| Federico Fabris | Department of English, University of Bamberg (Germany) | Postcolonial theory; European migration studies; Dialogue in literature and philosophy; Black British Literature; Italian Migration Literature |
| Isabelle Felici | Department of Italian Studies, Montpellier University Paul Valéry (France) | Italian emigration; Italian anarchists in exile |
| Alexander Freund | Department of History/Chair in German-Canadian Studies/Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg (Canada) | Oral History of Refugees in Winnipeg Since 1945; Oral History and Photography; Dealing With the Past Abroad: Germans, Jews, and the Nazi Past in North America Since 1945 |
| April Gallwey | Department of History, University of Warwick | The social history of lone motherhood in the post-1945 period; women's history and the history of the family; oral history and life history methods |
| Talvinder Gill | Department of History, University of Warwick | Indian Workers' Association (IWA) in the post-war period; oral history; identity formation; race relations and 'multiculturalism'; class |
| Anna von der Goltz | Department of History, University of Cambridge | German political and cultural history of the twentieth century; political and cultural activism in both German states in the 1960s and 1970s; the history of myth, memory and commemoration; the history of generations; oral histories of political activism |
| Craig Griffiths | Queen Mary University of London | West German Gay and Lesbian Movement in the 1970s, gender presentation; the "rediscovery" and utilisation of the Pink Triangle symbol; oral history; the historiography of gay liberation |
| Andrea Hajek | Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London | Modern Italian history; European protest movements; memory studies; intergenerational memory; oral history; visual culture |
| Joanna Herbert | Queen Mary, University of London | Migration; ethnicity; gender; South Asian diaspora; whiteness and racisms; oral histories and narratives |
| Katherine Holden | Department of History Politics and Philosophy, University of the West of England |
19th/ 20th century British social history, history of the family, history of childhood, 19th/20th century women's history and gender history, oral history |
| Celia Hughes | Department of History, University of Warwick | Post-war social, political and cultural British history; the British Left in the 1960s and 1970s; second-wave feminism; sexual politics; post-war narratives of selfhood; gender relations; memory; oral history |
| Katharina Karcher | German Department, University of Warwick | Women's participation in armed struggle in Germany since the 1970s |
| Milena Kremakova | Department of Sociology, University of Warwick | The post-socialist transition; maritime labour and market mechanisms; qualitative methodologies, esp. oral history and everyday life; issues of translation |
| Michèle Losse | The Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Kew Gardens; oral history |
| Emma Lowman | Department of Sociology, University of Warwick | The theory & practice of Indigenous research methodologies in the academy; the study of missionary histories in BC in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Matthew MacDonald | Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University (Canada) |
Emerging technologies that aid in the dissemination, capture, preservation or understanding of the narrative |
| Alexi Marchel | Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick | Performance studies; memorialisation; IRS Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada |
| Ivana Margarese | Arco, University of Palermo (Italy) | archives, cinema of amatorial memories, family |
| Joseph Maslen | Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University |
Left-wing youth and old age in twentieth century Britain |
| Imogen Michel | School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh | Peace and environmental activists in the UK; oral history |
| Kayleigh Milden | History Department, University of Exeter | The oral and visual culture of Cornish Methodism; border identity and narrative (with specific interest in Celticborder regions); family and community memory |
| Allen Newton | Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick | Negotiating terrorism; war, terrorism and counterinsurgency; civil conflict |
| Elizabeth Newton | Institute of Education, University of Worcester | Religious education in Birmingham during the 1960s and 1970s |
| Leyla Neyzi | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sabancı University (Turkey) |
Remembering Armenians in Turkey; postmemories of Kurdish and Turkish youth in Turkey |
| Yoana Fernanda Nieto Valdivieso | Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull | gender and political violence, anthropology of violence, memory, literatures of the unspeakable, critical theory |
| Tomoe Otsuki | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada) |
Gender and representation of the past in postwar society; Atomic Bomb memory and testimony; colonial memory in East Asia; memorial museums |
| Tom Owen | Department of History, University of Warwick | Anti-Freemasonry in post-war Britain; conspiracy theory or the 'paranoid style'; moral panic, deviance and modern witch hunting |
| Sarah Reader | Independent researcher | The impact of the Portuguese dictatorship (the 'Estado Novo') and the carnation revolution on Portugal's politics, culture and society |
| Ben Rogaly | Department of Geography, University of Sussex | Citizenship, work, identity, place and belonging in contemporary England |
| Sofia Serenelli | Department of History, University of Reading | Italian Twentieth Century History; cultural history; history of the family and domesticity; art and material culture; oral history; micro-history, 196; Fascism |
| Alejandra Serpente | Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London | Postmemory; Latin American diasporas; Chilean and Argentinean exile; human rights; gender; trauma |
| Jeanette Silva | Department of Sociology, University of Warwick | Gender and higher education; feminist theories and methodologies; sociology of higher education; citizenship, higher education and migration in the global era; post-colonial studies and feminist social movements |
| Victoria Smith | Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick | Comparative cultural studies; memory studies; oral history and its narrative forms; collective memory of domestic slavery in Chana, West Africa |
| Stephen Soanes | Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick | Convalescence and the Public Mental Hospital in England, 1919-1939 |
| Ljubica Spaskovska | Department of History, University of Exeter | Youth supra-national cultures in late socialism/post-socialism |
| Richard C. Subber | Moravian College Bethlehem (USA) |
Archiving current oral histories of active college students/faculty/staff/alumni at Moravian College |
| Roxsana Sussewell | Independent researcher | Life histories of human rights/activists with particular reference to South Africa |
| Darshi Thoradeniya | Department of History, University of Warwick | Women's health and body in post-independent Sri Lanka; oral history |
| Simona Tobia | School of Languages and European Studies, University of Reading | Humanity through the lens of war and conflict; military interrogations, war crimes investigations |
| Shelley Trower | English Department, University of Exeter | Myth and nationalism; work and landscape/place; writing and voice |
| Pippa Virdee | De Montfort University, Leicester |
India, Pakistan, gender politics |
| Rosalind Watkiss Singleton | University of Wolverhampton | Post-war working class |
| Rebecca Williams | Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick | History of medicine in South Asia; family planning; population control in post-1947 India |
| Michelle Winslow | Academic Unit of Supportive Care, Univesity of Sheffield | Oral history; palliative care |
| Nana Zhang | Department of Sociology, University of Warwick | Labour and migration in China, children in migration; guanxi networks in China |
ABOUT US
Angela Davis
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Warwick. Her research to date has focused on motherhood in postwar England. She is currently working on a project looking at the provision and experience of pre-school childcare in Britain during the years 1939-1979, also using oral history. Email: angela.davis@warwick.ac.uk
Andrea Hajek received her doctorate in the Italian department, with a dissertation on the public memory of a 1970s protest movement in Italy. During an Early Career Fellowship at the IAS she turned her attention to oral history. Until December 2011 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of London, where she worked - among other things - on an oral history project funded by the British Academy. She is currently preparing her PhD for publication in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies series. Email: andreahajek@gmail.com
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