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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">of interest ? - pass on as you
wish and do book a place if you wish to go - best wishes - Chris<br><br>
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</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Working with
Narrative, Memory and Life History: A Postgraduate and Graduate Afternoon
for Sharing Projects, Skills and Job Experiences.<br>
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<font size=2>The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
(University of Sussex) and the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative
and Histories (University of Brighton) are co-hosting a mini-conference
on Friday, 25 May 2012. The event will begin at 1pm and finish at 5:30pm
(refreshments will be provided). For those able to continue, discussions
will then move on to a nearby pub in central Brighton.<br>
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<font size=2><b>This open event will take place at Grand Parade,
University of Brighton and it will be free of charge although places are
limited. To book please email Sara Duffy sd164@brighton.ac.uk<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font size=2>The conference theme considers<i> </i>what to do with a
postgraduate degree in life history, narrative or memory studies.
Graduates from the University of Sussex MA in Life History Research and
the University of Brighton’s MA in Cultural History, Memory and Identity
will offer mini-presentations on paid or voluntary work they have done
since graduation. The afternoon will allow for networking and also for
hearing about projects by MA students currently studying at Brighton. It
will also serve as a reunion event for life history graduates that have
moved on from the two universities.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Presentations include:<br>
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<font size=2><b>Daisy Asquith (University of Brighton)<br>
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<font size=2><b>Nothing Worse Should Happen: Making a Documentary about
Holocaust Survivors<br>
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<font size=2>Daisy intended her MA as a way out of her established job
making documentaries for television where she found telling stories to
order frustrating and demoralising. This course made her regard her work
in a different way; reinvigorating it with new ideas and approaches.
Daisy recently applied for a history commission with Channel 4 on the
present day lives of Holocaust survivors. She will discuss how her work
and study have interacted and how she has learned to be robust about the
way she wants to tell a story. She will show a short clip from the film
in order to demonstrate how it was hugely enriched by further study.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Jenna Bailey (University of Sussex)<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2><b>Can Any Academic Help Me? A Personal Perspective on
Balancing Academic and Commercial Interests in Life History Research<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Since graduating, the two main projects that Jenna has
worked on have been her first book, ‘Can Any Mother Help Me?’ and
forthcoming second publication, a band biography about the Ivy Benson
Band. Jenna will discuss her experience of researching and publishing
life history based books that are geared toward a popular audience. She
will focus on the lessons learned while transitioning between the
academic arena and the world of commercial publications, looking both at
issues of content selection and research practice. Finally, she will
touch upon her experience of working as a consultant on both a theatrical
adaptation and television screenplay of her first book.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Frances Cornford (University of Sussex)<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2><b>Crafts Lives at the British Library<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Frances will give an overview of the Crafts Lives project,
which is part of National Life Stories at the British Library. She will
focus on what the project interviewer's job involves, the nature of the
collected interviews and discuss some of the challenges of interviewing
craftspeople. She will suggest some approaches to encouraging the
interviewee to speak about ingrained habits and skills that operate at a
non-verbal level.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Sarah Hitchings and Jenny Stewart (University of
Sussex)<br>
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<font size=2><b>Turning an MA in Life History Research into a
business.<br>
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<font size=2>Sarah and Jenny will talk about their Life History business
'Spoken Memoirs'; their motivation for setting it up, how it evolved and
some of the challenges they have faced along the way. They will also
share their successes and the positive support network established with
other students. They will discuss the discrepancy between the academic
world and the ‘real ‘ world and some of the strengths and limitations of
an MA course in preparing students for a future career in life
history.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Sue Maclaine (University of Sussex)<br>
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<font size=2><b>The me in you and the you in me.<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Sue MacLaine is a writer and performer. Her artistic
practice is located within the auto/biographical construct and has been
informed and influenced by her MA Studies in Life History and Life
Writing at the University of Sussex. For this presentation she will focus
on her current production ‘Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes’
to example the journey from autobiographical impulse through academic
research to biographical creative product.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Noelle McCormack (University of Sussex)<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2><b>Life History and Disability<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Since graduating in 2007 Noelle has been involved in a
variety of life history projects concerned with recording the stories of
people with disabilities and dementia. One funded project supported her
to record the story of a mother of a profoundly disabled child, resulting
in a multi-media exhibitionInside My Dance at the Jubilee Library. Noelle
will discuss her present project work where she supports mixed ability
learning disabled adults to tell their stories using sound, film and
photography.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Fiona Murrell (University of Sussex)<br>
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<font size=2><b>Working with archives<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Since graduating, Fiona has been involved with two projects.
The first is working with West Sussex Libraries who have been awarded
Heritage Lottery funding on a project about West Sussex during WW2. Her
role involved researching material from the Mass Observation Archive
including several diaries that will be used as evidence on Sussex life
during this period. Her second job is archiving the documents of a
leading primatologist, Alison Jolly, known for her studies of lemurs in
Madagascar. Fiona will present on the the pleasures and pitfalls involved
in working with archives.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Catherine Page (University of Sussex)<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2><b>A Licence to Explore<br>
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<font size=2>Since graduating Catherine has written a street history 'My
House, My Street' and has interviewed for the 'Speaking Up for
Disability' project. She is now working up her own oral history research
concerned with the disappearing lifestyles of West Sussex. Catherine is
on the management committee of QueenSparkBooks. She will discuss how the
MA in Life History Research has given her natural inclination to enquire
in to other people’s affairs, a quasi-official status.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Jo Palache (University of Sussex)<br>
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<font size=2><b>From individual experience to public perception<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Jo Palache shares her experience of working on oral history
projects in the museum environment, and in particular collecting
interviews to engage the public and provide an exhibition narrative. She
will discuss the tension that arises in achieving the archival depth
appropriate for future researchers and upholding the integrity of the
individual story whilst providing the brevity of expression required for
museum displays.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Lucy Pearce (University of Brighton)<br>
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<font size=2><b>Moving between two worlds - activism and academia<br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2>Since graduating with a degree in African and Caribbean
Studies, Lucy has worked as a professional campaigner. Fifteen years
later she returned to study part time, alongside continuing to work part
time in campaigning. Her talk will explore how she has experienced these
two separate yet connected parts of her life, their complementarities,
and tensions. Key words will include reflection and language. Lucy does
not know where her studies will take her, and looks forward to questions,
comments, and thoughts on this creative tension between professional
activism and academia.<br>
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<font size=2><b>Don't forget to book a place as soon as possible to avoid
disappointment<br>
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<font size=2><b>Email Sara Duffy <br>
</b></font><br>
<font size=2><b>sd164@brighton.ac.uk<br><br>
Best wishes from CLHLWR<br>
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/index</a><br>
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