Thursday 6th October 2011 5:30pm to 7pm Talking About Australian Generations: Making Oral History Al Thomson (Monash): Kevin Bradley (National Library of Australia) and Michelle Rayner (ABC Radio National) Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria (Entry 3 LaTrobe Street Melbourne) Australian Generations, one of the nations most ambitious oral history projects will interview 300 Australians from between 1930 and 1990 to explore the changing experience of everyday life and the significance of generational memory and identity. A panel will discuss issues in recording life stories across the country and with different age groups, and about creating an online digital history archive and national radio history series. Australian Generations Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/australian-generations/ Admission is Free, All Welcome to Attend Bookings Essential: Telephone: +613 8664 7099 Email: bookings@slv.vic.gov.au Online: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/talking-about-aust-generations This seminar is part of the Making Public Histories Seminar Series organised by the State Library of Victoria and Monash University's Institute for Public History and the History Council of Victoria. | Monday 10th October 2011 6:30pm to 7:30pm Vanishing Neighbourhoods: Oral History, Museums and Urban Change Steven High (Centre for Oral History & Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, MontrealMuseum Theatre, Melbourne Museum Steven is currently working with a local museum on an exhibition on les quartiers disparu or ‘vanishing neighbourhoods’ using oral history to explore ‘urban change’ (working class neighbourhoods demolished to make way for freeways, government complexes and parking lots). The methodology, ‘memory clinics’, involves small groups of former residents, old insurance maps, expropriation photos, as well as the walking interview. Steven will discuss the building of this new exhibition.
Steven High is Chair in Public History and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His publications include Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (2007). See http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/index.html
Admission is Free, all welcome to attend. Bookings OPEN NOW: http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/event/?event=563147 |