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The Talk About Town - Workshops

Friday 28 August 2009

A feature of the second day of the conference will be three oral history workshops that will run concurrently in the afternoon. The three workshops are broadly grouped as Collecting, Interpreting and Making urban histories through personal stories. As places are limited in each, we are asking conference participants to choose a workshop when they register (in order of preference).

The workshops are intended to be a genuinely participatory dialogue between researchers. Each workshop will be run be a panel of three prominent Australasian urban/ oral historians, and are broadly themed to cover such issues as:

Each workshop will also focus more specifically on issues relating to their respective themes. Panel members will present papers around which broad ranging discussion will take place. The panel members for the workshops are:

Collecting

Susan Marsden
Vice President, Professional Historians Association (South Australia)

Rosemary Bloch
National President, Oral History Association of Australia; History Program, State Library of New South Wales

Mark Peel
Professor, School of Historical Studies, Monash University

Interpreting

Alan Young
Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology

Alistair Thomson
Professor, School of Historical Studies, Monash University

Lesley Alves
Professional Historian; Treasurer, Oral History Association of Australia, Victorian Branch

Making

Michelle Rayner
Executive Producer, Social History Unit, ABC Radio National

Helen Simondson
Screen Events Manager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Maria Tence
Manager, Community Exhibitions, Immigration Museum, Museum Victoria

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