Conference 24 November 2011: Gender, Subjectivity and Oral History 

Thursday 24 November 2011, 9.30am - 5.30pm

Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Seminar room, Millburn House

Organized by Angela Davis and Andrea Hajek

This one-day conference will focus on questions related to oral history and gender, the current status of the field, and perspectives on the future. Themes that will be addressed include:

• the role of gender in the composure of subjective identities;

• the gendered inter-subjectivities of the narrator and listener;

• the influence of sexuality, class and ethnicity on the formation of subjectivities;

• inter- and trans-generational memory.

Keynote speaker:

1 - Family, Generation and Memory

Defining female identity in Italy: gender, matrimony and motherhood in the memories of the 1970s generation (title TBC)

Andrea Hajek, University of London

‘Like a separate family’: memories of two generations of child care in an upper-middle class family from 1914 to the 1960s

Kath Holden, University of the West of England

Changing fathers, changing men? Fatherhood, social change and generations in Britain before, during and after the Second World War

Laura King, University of Warwick

2 - Gender, Migration and Identity

Women’s Work and Identity Construction in the Turkish Ethnic Economy in London

Saniye Dedeoglu, University of Mugla / University of Warwick

The Ethiopian Buna (coffee) ceremony: exploring the impact of exile and the construction of identity through narratives with Ethiopian forced migrants in London

David Palmer, University of Kent

Negotiating identities: women in rural-urban migration in contemporary China

Nana Zhang, University of Warwick

3 - Gendered Subjectivities and Social Movements

Female participation in leftist political violence in Germany since 1970 (title TBC)

Katharina Karcher, University of Warwick

Personal and political: childcare, work, and home in the accounts of members of Oxford Women’s Liberation

Angela Davis, University of Warwick