Book Talk and Reception: Oral History Off the Record, Nov 18
Event Date(s):
18 November 2013
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Montréal BOOK TALK AND RECEPTION: Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice Edited by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Oral History 2013 http://us.macmillan.com/oralhistoryofftherecord/ https://www.facebook.com/oralhistoryofftherecord You are invited to join the editors, as well as several of the Montreal-based contributors, for an event discussing the book and celebrating its publication. Date: Monday, November 18, 2013 Time: 5-8 PM Location: L'Amère à Boire (3rd floor, 2049 St-Denis, between Sherbrooke and Ontario) in Montréal, Canada What can we learn about oral history when we share our interview stories? Oral History Off the Record treats interviewing as the precarious and exciting human process that it is by providing honest reflections on research experiences. It narrows the divide between content and process, stressing that oral historians' work is made more rigorous and meaningful by examining the intersection of the two. Although the collection¹s diverse international and intergenerational authors adopt multiple perspectives and come from a range of fields, including Holocaust memory, Aboriginal Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, immigration and ethnic history, post-conflict memory, and histories of marginalized peoples, such as people of color, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities, and working-class women, they all have one thing in common: a desire to make sense of their interview stories. In addition to a Foreword by Steven High and an Afterword by Alessandro Portelli, the book¹s contributors include Henry Greenspan, Sherna Berger Gluck, Julie Cruikshank, Tatiana Argounova-Low, Joan Sangster, Hourig Attarian, Martha Norkunas, Alan Wong, Elizabeth Miller, Stacey Zembrzycki, Leyla Neyzi, Pamela Sugiman, Nadia Jones-Gailani, Nancy Janovicek, Monica Eileen Patterson, Erin Jessee, Alexander Freund, Luis Van Isschot, and Anna Sheftel. RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/506431492786689/ or by email: asheftel@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stacey Zembrzycki Affiliate Assistant Professor Department of History Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC Canada H3G 1M8 Co-Editor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
