Oral History and Technological Memory: Challenges in Studying European Pasts
Summer School
10–15 August 2009, University of Turku, Finland
Conveners: Dr. Hannu Salmi, University of Turku; Dr. Petri Paju, University of Turku; Dr. Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam
The European Science Foundation EUROCORES program Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present , in collaboration with the research project Software for Europe (SOFT-EU), is organising a summer school on oral history and technological memory, with a special emphasis on the methodology of oral history within the framework of the history of technology. The Summer School will be hosted by the Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland. It will take place at the University of Turku between Monday 10 August and Saturday 15 August 2009.
Course Content
The Summer School has two main objectives. Firstly, it aims at providing PhD students and postdocs with up-to-date knowledge on oral history methods especially in the domain of the history of technology, and in particular with regard to how these questions and methods can help us better understand the European pasts studied in the EUROCORES Programme Inventing Europe (and the network Tensions of Europe). Secondly, the Summer School offers the participants an opportunity to present their own work and to discuss it with senior historians of technology and international experts in fields of oral history and cultural history. For further details, see the CFP of the Summer school.
Programme and Participation
All participants are expected to attend throughout the duration of the whole Summer School. The programme consists of lectures, workshops, round table discussions, student project presentations, laboratories in using oral source material, and slots for open discussions between teachers and students. See the full programme of the Summer School.
Upon admission participants are expected to write a paper of about 4.000 words on their research topic, particularly in relation to oral history issues. The deadline for submission will be June 30, 2009. The participants are also expected to study the papers of all other participants, which will be pre-circulated, and the compulsory reader (about 100 pages), which will be based on publications selected by the teachers. See the reader for the Summer School.
Teachers
- Dr. Isabelle Dussauge (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
- Dr. Anna Green (University of Exeter)
- Dr. Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
- Dr. Per Lundin (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
- Dr. Thomas Misa (Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota)
- Dr. Hannu Salmi (University of Turku)
Contact
For further information, contact Dr. Petri Paju, Dept. of Cultural History, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland, email: petpaju(a)utu.fi.
Sponsors
- European Science Foundation
- Foundation for the History of Technology (the Netherlands)
- Research project Using IBM in Europe to Recapture the Lead (Academy of Finland), part of a European consortium Software for Europe (ESF)
- Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland