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Storianan Skondi di Karibe on Steam Since January 2024, “Sprekende geschiedenis” together with Extraordinary Professor of Culture, Community and History Rose- Mary Allen, the National Archives of Curaçao, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and DANS (the digital archive of the KNAW) have been carrying out the “Hidden …
Read moreIf you only knew: The first generation of women from Turkey in the Netherlands Starting in the late 1960s, the first women from Turkey came to the Netherlands to build new lives here. What did those lives look like? We know very little about them. The exhibition “Je …
Read moreFriday, Sept. 13 marked the opening of the traveling exhibition “Forty Women to Never Forget,” about the history of the Turkish and Moroccan women’s movement in the Netherlands, at emancipation center Vrouw en Vaart in Amsterdam. The traveling exhibition brings to life the history of the HTKB (Hollanda Türkiye Kadinlar …
Read moreLast week we were invited to the kick-off of the project FeMig.Lab: Female Labor Migration in European History in Berlin. This initiative is organized by Minor – Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung in cooperation with Humanity in Action Poland, the Ethnographic Museum of Istria, LVR Industrial Museums and the Center …
Read moreThe Oral History Hub “Sprekende geschiedenis” has developed a new instructional video in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Armando Ello. This video is made for anyone who wants to start an oral history project. Find out what is involved in setting up an oral history project in this handy …
Read moreWe are looking for people fluent in Papiamentu to record short fragments on their phones. Curaçao has a lot of old audio material that is of value for the historiography of the island. Consider, for example, the oral history interviews Rose Mary Allen conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. …
Read moreMemory in Movement: Pace, Connection & Introspection 28th–29th November 2024, University of Jyväskylä, Finland This conference critically explores the concept of ‘movement’ in relation to oral history and memory studies. ‘Movement’ is defined broadly and inclusively: it can refer to social movements, physical movement, or movement across concrete or …
Read moreOH-SMArt Symposium 2024 FAIR use of Artist Interviews for Conservators and Curators In conclusion of its three year research project Oral History – Stories at the Museum around Artworks (OH-SMArt), the Conservation and Restoration department of the University of Amsterdam, together with SMBK Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art, …
Read moreThe UvA’s new research priority area Decolonial Futures is currently accepting proposals for Seed Funding. The RPA is looking for innovative and collaborative research projects, particularly those that align with the RPA’s main themes: Museums, archives & cultural practices; Migrations, mobility & borders; and Ecology, sustainability & climate change. Early …
Read moreThe Oral History and Life Stories Network is one of the 27 networks of the ESSHC and brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narratives, and history. Broadly, they want to encourage papers that explore methodological questions and challenges as well as the relationship …
Read morePhoto: Rose Mary Allen interviews a woman in Curaçao in the 1980s Lately, the Oral History Hub Sprekende Geschiedenis received good news: the Stimulation Fund for Creative Industry has honoured the application for the project Storianan Skondi di Karibe (The Hidden Stories of the Caribbean). This project concerns …
Read morePhoto: Launching project My freedom – your freedom? at the Sound and Vision in The Hague. On Wednesday 10 January, the Netherlands signed the Faro Convention. With this treaty, the Council of Europe highlights a different perspective on heritage. The Faro Convention puts people and society at the centre …
Read moreOn 8 December 2023, the second Oral History symposium of the Sprekende Geschiedenis Hub took place at the Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed in Amersfoort. An inspiring day that was fully booked weeks in advance, with great speakers, as Professors Rose Mary Allen and James Kennedy. The five lively workshops contributed …
Read moreOn 5 and 6 October, Sprekende geschiedenis delivered an online guest lecture as part of the international training course ‘Sharing Stories on Contested Histories 2023’ (SSOCH 2023). SSCOH is an initiative of the RCE in cooperation with the Reinwardt Academy and is part of the Shared Cultural Heritage programme (now …
Read moreDo you have an MA in history and are you passionate about the history of feminism and in developing your expertise in the fields of gender, women’s and oral history? Then you may be interested in this PhD position to work on an oral history project concerning the history …
Read moreOn Friday 8 December, the ‘Sprekende geschiedenis’ hub will host a symposium ‘Oral History, a step further’ at the RCE (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed) in Amersfoort. Backstage, we are busy preparing the programme and are pleased to share that one of the speakers is Rose Mary Allen. …
Read moreIn the 1970s and 1980s, more and more migrant workers became involved in associations and strikes that stood up for their rights and interests. In the 1970s, family reunification was made difficult. Those women who did manage to come to the Netherlands were made dependent on their husbands. Her …
Read moreOral History collections at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision . Although when most people think of the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, they will probably think first of the Media Museum and the Top 2000, this institute also manages the Netherlands’ premier audiovisual archive. One of …
Read moreThis is the first time that the expert meeting ‘Museums and Oral History’ has been held. During the expert meeting ‘Museums and Oral History’ the first steps were taken to identify the issues within the museum world. Curious about the conclusions, project examples, reading tips or would you like to …
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