2011-2012 SEMINAR SERIES

Minefields, Miniskirts and MixedMarriage: Oral Histories from Down Under, by Siobhan McHugh

General presentation with lots of good stories and audio clips from different projects, adding up to a well-rounded picture of Australia's recent social history. The title is a play on one of my books/radio series, 'Minefields and Miniskirts', about Australian women in the Vietnam war,

Monday October 17th, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Room LB1042

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Oral History as Crafted Radio Narrative: in pursuit of a higher truth, by Siobhan McHugh

This presentation contends that broadcasting oral history for a public audience requires a blend of artistic interpretation and journalistic distillation. Using complex audio textures and layerings, the author constructs an artistic work whose cumulative effect aims to enhance and extend the ‘mere’ words of interview, to locate an elusive ‘higher truth’. But what are the risks and drawbacks of such an approach? How do those interviewed feel about being thus represented?

Tuesday October 18th, from 12:00 to 2:00pm Room LB1042

The Douglas Cardinal Archive Project, by Erica Fagen

As they work through over 300 boxes of the archival records of one of Canada's famed architects, Douglas Cardinal, archivists at
the MacOdrum Library are creating vibrant narratives to accompany their archive. Believing that the archive could be a place for storytelling
and reflection, these new voices in oral history have found a way to weave the stories into the artifacts they are cataloguing.

Tuesday October 20th, from 6:00 to 8:00pm Room LB1042

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Romas from then to now : Brown bag presentation by Gerhard Baumgartner, Historian and professor at University of Applied Sciences, Graz (Austria)

Even today, Roma are controlled and monitored more than other citizens and in some recent cases, their basic rights have been violated, even here in Canada. This presentation will explore various aspects of their history and current situation.

Monday October 31st, from 12:00 to 1:30pm

Degrees of Incarceration: Community Stories of Political Imprisonment in Palestine, by Amahl Bishara, Tufts University

Degrees of Incarceration documents the effects political imprisonment has on a community of Palestinians in the West Bank.The film reveals how community members, old and young, respond with creativity and determination to attend to the social and political toll imprisonment takes on them all.

Wednesday November 16th, from 6:00 to 8:00pm Room Va-114 (Visual Arts Building, local VA-114, 1395 René Levèsque West)

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2012

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Genocide Presentations and Education,
by Heidi Berger

Heidi Berger has begun an exciting educational tour to present a unique, 40-minute interactive video presentation to high school and university students, and adults, that chronicles her mother’s experiences during the Holocaust. Her presentation uses new media and blends live video clips of her testimony to the Shoah Foundation and the Montreal Holocaust Museum, with explanations that tie it all together into a cohesive and compelling story. Mrs Berger's talk will be followed by a debate regarding the "process of telling," its profesionalisation sometimes and also the responses of different and changing groups to testimonials and stories.

Thursday January 12th, from 5:00 to 7:00pm (Library Building, Room LB1042)

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Portrayals of Teachers’ Lives: Investigating Teacher Education through Creative Non-Fiction (Open Lecture)
by Anita Siner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Carl Leggo

In this open lecture, we assess the effects and value of using integrative methods of creative nonfiction as life writing; how this method is both art and research and how the application of this method contributes to discourses that promise to improve teacher education practices and theory. The application of the literary form of creative nonfiction, as an integrative arts-based method of inquiry, has the potential to change the structures of learning and teaching, and in the process, provide a suitable method to write contemporary teacher stories and reclaim historical teacher stories. We will discuss creative nonfiction as redefining understandings of educational inquiry, methodological practices, and dissemination through the application of image, text and sound in teacher education.

Thursday February 9th, from 11:00 to 12:30pm (Library Building, Room LB1042). The open lecture will be followed by a light lunch before starting the workshop.

Portrayals of Teachers’ Lives: Investigating Teacher Education through Creative Non-Fiction (Workshop)
by Anita Siner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt and Carl Leggo

In our workshop, we will engage in a ‘think tank’ with invited scholars interested in examining the changing critical languages and distance between theory and practice through a discussion of exemplary creative non-fiction essays that offer unique perspectives on, and insights into, the interrelationships that compose teaching and learning lives. Such life writing explores the struggles and challenges as well as the joys and rewards of learning and teaching in a relational way to address questions such as: What is the potential for participatory arts practice to succeed as qualitative research? What is the value of integrative methods for communicating knowledge about the lives of teachers? How do innovative arts practices influence teacher identity as portrayed in popular culture?

Thursday February 9th, from 1:30 to 3:30pm (Library Building, Room LB1042)

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