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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>pass on as you wish - cheers -
Chris<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4>CALL FOR
PAPERS<br>
</b><br>
<b>Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories
<br>
</b> <br>
<b>The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in conjunction with
the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of
Sussex</b> <br><br>
<b>Venue: University of Sussex<br>
</b><br>
<b>Date: Friday 5th - Saturday 6th July 2013<br>
</b><br>
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?
<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>We invite proposals for oral history-based contributions, including
papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays on the
following topics:<br>
</b><br>
<b>Personal Voices: <br>
</b><br>
The face of a business: managing directors, exemplary employees,
disgruntled employees, minorities, majorities;<br><br>
Customer or service user perspectives; <br><br>
Interviewee perspectives - current employees, retirees, or leavers;
<br><br>
Living with or growing up with a corporate employee in the
household<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>Institutional voices: <br>
</b><br>
Public, private and voluntary sectors; <br><br>
The international and global institution;<br><br>
Corporate museums and oral history<br><br>
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<b>Organisational memory and oral history: <br>
</b><br>
Corporate memories and inheritance stories; <br><br>
Myth in the workplace<br><br>
Big birthday - commemorations, anniversaries and oral history; <br><br>
Family business and friends reunited <br><br>
<br><br>
<b>The organisational community and change:<br>
</b><br>
Transition from public body to private corporation; <br><br>
Impact of rapid decline and/or growth;<br><br>
Place, space and communities of identity<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>Role and use of oral history in business settings: <br>
</b><br>
Marketing and branding; <br><br>
Dealing with critical perspectives of organisations or businesses;
<br><br>
Institutional history as public history <br><br>
<br><br>
<b>Commissioning oral history: <br>
</b><br>
Funding and ethics;<br><br>
Negotiating control of corporate sponsored projects or with elite
interviewees; <br><br>
Franchising oral history <br><br>
<b>Archiving: <br>
</b><br>
Archivist perspectives - creating an oral history archive of an
organisation or business; <br><br>
The future life of an institutional oral history collection; <br><br>
Business records and oral history <br><br>
<br>
</font><pre>PROPOSALS</b></pre><br>
<pre>The deadline for submission of proposals is 1st</sup> December
2012</b>. Each proposal should include: a title, an abstract of between
250-300 words, </pre><br>
<pre>your name (and the names of any co-presenters, panelists etc), your
institution or organisation, your email address, and a note of any
particular </pre><br>
<pre>requirements. Most importantly your abstract should demonstrate the
use of oral history or personal testimony and be directly related to
</pre><br>
<pre>the history or development of aspects of organisational or corporate
history. </pre><br>
<pre>Proposals should be emailed to the Corporate Voices </i>Conference
Administrator, Belinda Waterman, at
<a href="mailto:belinda@essex.ac.uk">belinda@essex.ac.uk</a></b>.
</pre><br>
<pre>They will be assessed anonymously by the conference organisers, and
presenters will be contacted early in 2013. </pre><br>
<pre>ORGANISING GROUP</b></pre><br>
<pre>OHS: Kate Melvin, Rob Perks, Mary Stewart, Juliana Vandegrift,
Hilary Young.</pre><br>
<pre>Sussex: Sam Carroll, Fiona Courage, Margaretta Jolly, Jo Palache,
Ben Rogaly, Dorothy
Sheridan.</pre>
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