Fwd: Call For Papers: 'Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories', OHS Annual Conference, U of Sussex

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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories
>
>The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in conjunction 
>with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, 
>University of Sussex
>
>Venue: University of Sussex
>
>Date: Friday 5th - Saturday 6th July 2013
>
>What is the business of oral history? What is the relationship 
>between oral history and business? Why have institutions and 
>businesses wanted to record their histories? And how have they used 
>their oral history?
>
>This conference opens up our traditional focus on community and 
>domestic lives to explore the hidden histories of private companies 
>and business, public institutions, hospitals, universities, museums, 
>public utilities, local and national governmental, campaigning 
>bodies and charities. We would like to hear about what interviews 
>with those who work in institutions and organisations tell us about 
>organisational history and memory, the institutional or educational 
>community, and more.
>
>This conference would bring into dialogue historians of business, 
>education and health with oral historians who have been commissioned 
>to work with and within institutions to create and document their 
>oral history. We would like to hear from those, too, who work in 
>public history, scholars of business memoir or biography, and, 
>ideally, institutional commissioners or archivists, and interviewees 
>themselves. We also invite honest and practical sharing of 
>experiences of negotiating with private sector funders or large 
>institutions, and of working with those with high public profiles. 
>The conference will additionally encourage discussion of how these 
>experiences relate to working with the media and the general public, 
>which are often part of the package of an institutionally-framed oral history.
>
>We invite proposals for oral history-based contributions, including 
>papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays on 
>the following topics:
>
>Personal Voices:
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>The face of a business: managing directors, exemplary employees, 
>disgruntled employees, minorities, majorities;
>
>Customer or service user perspectives;
>
>Interviewee perspectives - current employees, retirees, or leavers;
>
>Living with or growing up with a corporate employee in the household
>
>
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>Institutional voices:
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>Public, private and voluntary sectors;
>
>The international and global institution;
>
>Corporate museums and oral history
>
>
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>Organisational memory and oral history:
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>Corporate memories and inheritance stories;
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>Myth in the workplace
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>Big birthday - commemorations, anniversaries and oral history;
>
>Family business and friends reunited
>
>
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>The organisational community and change:
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>Transition from public body to private corporation;
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>Impact of rapid decline and/or growth;
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>Place, space and communities of identity
>
>
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>Role and use of oral history in business settings:
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>Marketing and branding;
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>Dealing with critical perspectives of organisations or businesses;
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>Institutional history as public history
>
>
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>Commissioning oral history:
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>Funding and ethics;
>
>Negotiating control of corporate sponsored projects or with elite 
>interviewees;
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>Franchising oral history
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>Archiving:
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>Archivist perspectives - creating an oral history archive of an 
>organisation or business;
>
>The future life of an institutional oral history collection;
>
>Business records and oral history
>
>
>PROPOSALS
>The deadline for submission of proposals is 1st December 2012. Each 
>proposal should include: a title, an abstract of between 250-300 words,
>your name (and the names of any co-presenters, panelists etc), your 
>institution or organisation, your email address, and a note of any particular
>requirements. Most importantly your abstract should demonstrate the 
>use of oral history or personal testimony and be directly related to
>the history or development of aspects of organisational or corporate history.
>Proposals should be emailed to the Corporate Voices Conference 
>Administrator, Belinda Waterman, at 
><mailto:belinda at essex.ac.uk>belinda at essex.ac.uk.
>They will be assessed anonymously by the conference organisers, and 
>presenters will be contacted early in 2013.
>ORGANISING GROUP
>OHS: Kate Melvin, Rob Perks, Mary Stewart, Juliana Vandegrift, Hilary Young.
>Sussex: Sam Carroll, Fiona Courage, Margaretta Jolly, Jo Palache, 
>Ben Rogaly, Dorothy 
>Sheridan.**************************************************************************
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