Researching Uniqueness

10:25 Welcome from organisers

10:30-12.00: Session One

Nicola Streeten (‘Why comics work for gathering and telling life stories’); Marika Djolai (‘Community cooperation in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: coping strategies and violence’); Anita Broad (“Let's Play Stoolball!”); David Selway (‘Life History, Collective Memory & the Tonypandy Riots’); Alexandra Loske ('The Obscurity of Women – The challenges of researching 18th and 19th century female artists and writers'); Angela Campos (‘Discovering the lived experience of the Portuguese colonial war (1961-1974): what the veterans’ voices reveal to the oral historian’)

12.00-1.00: Lunch

1.00-1.45: Simon Thompson (keynote speaker):
“Everyone knows but do they understand?” Distinctive encounters and challenging confrontations with the life histories of UK education.

1.45-3.00: Session Two

Mark Irwin (‘Teaching the way we learnt: narratives of informal musical learning’) [tbc]; Jessica Hammett (‘Individual Remembering and Group Storytelling at a Reunion of a London World War Two Fire Brigade’); Eleanor Knight (‘The Trial of Jean Rhys: Uncovering the unpleasantly authentic voice of a literary icon’); Gillian Love (‘Abortion and social class: A narrative study’)

3.00-3.15: Break

3.15-4.00: Philippa Lyon (keynote speaker): ‘Drawing, life, story’

4.00: Conference closes.

Organised by:

Brighton Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Historieshttp://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-memory-narrative-and-histories

Sussex Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research 



Angela Campos, Administrator at CLHLWR (Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research)

Member of CHWS (Centre for the History of War and Society), University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK