Identity Project: Exhibition and Events What influences or determines our sense of who we are? What makes one person distinct from another? This major new exhibition explores the tension between the way we view ourselves and how others see us. Subjects tackled include twins, phrenology and brain imaging, gender and sexuality, race and prejudice. As [...]
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Posted 16 February 2010
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Friday 12 March 2010, 2.00-4.00pm Room 1.60 Franklin Wilkins Building, King’s College London ‘Micro-ethnography of social interaction as a research approach’ Professor Frederick Erickson University of California The “microethnography of social interaction” approach will be related to other streams of work, including similarities and differences with the “natural history of an interview” approach [...]
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Posted 16 February 2010
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UBLIC LIVES, PRIVATE LIVES: NEW RESEARCH ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES A Postgraduate Research Conference WEDNESDAY 2nd JUNE 2010 Grand Parade, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON The Second Annual Post-Graduate Research Conference Co-organised by the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing, University of Sussex CALL [...]
The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research open seminars for the Spring and Summer Terms 2010 are at the University of Sussex, usually Tuesdays 12.30-1.50pm. Please note that there is one seminar this term that will be on Friday 30 April. Please also note the room location for each seminar as it varies. [...]
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Posted 16 February 2010
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University of California, Berkeley Advanced Oral History Summer Institute Regional Oral History Office August 16-20, 2010 The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce a one-week advanced institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral/video history. This will take place at The Bancroft Library on the [...]
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Posted 15 February 2010
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Come and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first national Women’s Liberation Conference at the Free Word Centre. On February 27th 1970 more than 500 women met at Ruskin College in Oxford for the first National Women’s Liberation Movement conference. This extraordinary event reflected the radicalism, diversity, dissent and sisterhood of women at the [...]
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Posted 14 February 2010
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RESISTING SEDUCTION IN NARRATIVE RESEARCH
Leverhulme Lecture, Manchester, 2 March 2010
Catherine Kohler Riessman Time: 3-4.30pm
Place: Room OB101, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University Working with oral narrative presents temptations to qualitative researchers, who typically rely on thematically-oriented methods of analysis. First and foremost, we can resist seduction: the illusion created by a skillful [...]
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Posted 12 February 2010
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Live Bibliograhies: Performing the Text Performance in the Stuart Hall Library It’s time to make some noise in the library as performance poet Joyful Noise explores the library and archive, creating new stories and uncovering connections in response to current exhibition Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity <http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2010/progress_reports> . The performance by Joyful [...]
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Posted 11 February 2010
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Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Doing Critical Social Research Seminar Series Liz Stanley (Edinburgh University) – Back to the future? On sociological research and analysis of letters inThomas & Znaniecki’s The Polish Peasant… and contemporaneously Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is PI of the ESRC-funded Olive Schreiner Letters [...]
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Posted 11 February 2010
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NTERNATIONAL SEMINAR Narrating the Self: theoretic paradigms and methodologies for research and intervention in psychology and Pedagogy). University of Naples Federico II, Monday, February the 22nd 2010. Conference Hall (Sala Convegni) Palazzo degli Uffici, Via G. C. Cortese, 29 Napoli Scientific Committee Laura Aleni Sestito, Maria Francesca Freda, Giovanni Starace, Maura Striano, Maria Rosaria Strollo, [...]