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Workshops & seminars

Interpreting Childhood Memories in Oral History


Date & time
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Barbara Lorenzkowski

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Philip Lichti
514-848-2424 ext. 7920

Where

McConnell Library Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-1042

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

"To listen to the wind of my childhood," as the Quebec novelist Gabrielle Roy poetically put it, comes with its own methodological challenges.

  • To what extent are adult memories a reliable guide to recreating the worlds of childhood of past generations?
  • What are the cultural “scripts” of childhood that give shape to childhood recollections?
  • What can we learn about the role of memory when listening to childhood recollections, and what about the role of agency?
  • How do women’s stories of growing up differ from men’s stories?

In considering these, and other questions, this workshop will draw upon life-stories from Barbara Lorenzkowski's research project The Children’s War, a large-scale oral history study of men and women who grew up in port cities in Atlantic Canada during the years of the Second World War.

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