Life history and life writing research uses life story - whether in the form of oral history, personal narrative, autobiography or biography - as a primary source for the study of history and culture.
Life history and life writing research uses life story - whether in the form of oral history, personal narrative, autobiography or biography - as a primary source for the study of history and culture. Life stories capture the relation between the individual and society, the local and the national, the past and present and the public and private experience. Research involves grappling with theories of memory, relationship and self representation, and with debates about literacy and orality. Many disciplines contribute to the field, including history, sociology, anthropology, literary philosophy, cultural studies and psychology. Life history and life writing researchers present their work in many forms. As well as academic publications, we contribute to radio and television documentaries, auto/biographical drama, reminiscence work, digital and video presentations and exhibitions. Life history and life writing research is, of necessity, concerned with ethics and power relationships, and with the potential for advocacy and empowerment.
Rachael House's Feminist Disco:
Putting the 'disco' into 'discourse'
10 November 2017, University of Sussex, 6–9pm Room 76, Falmer BarUniversity of Sussex
This is an art project calling itself a disco. Rachael House plays records on two dansette record players and calls it DJing.The records are by bands featuring women Rachael decides are feminist, made between approximately 1976-1983.
This is a free event.
For details follow this link: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/seminarseries/201718seminars/feministdisco
New collaborative project:
Hastings Heritage and Art Trail
Launching September 2018
The brainchild of artist and photographer Maxine Beuret, the trail will be multidimensional walking tour taking in ten central locations that have not largely changed for over 25 years. Each place has been chosen for its amazing atmosphere and fascinating design history.
Maxine Beuret will photograph each location.
These images will be displayed at each of the stops on the trail alongside historical information and some relevant artefacts from Hastings Museum collection.
Inspired by the trail, users are encourage to create their own videos and photographs, which will also be displayed along the trail and on the website.
info@hastingstrail.co.uk
For more information on the project and related events follow this link:
http://hastingsheritagetrail.co.uk/
Updates
- You can view and download the CLHLWR Annual Report 2017 here.
- You can view and download the CLHLWR Annual Report 2016 here.
- You can view and download the CLHLWR Annual Report 2015 here.
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Environment Stories: Double book launch Wednesday 15 April 2015, Alison Jolly's THANK YOU MADAGASCAR and Simon Pooley's BURNING TABLE MOUNTAIN
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The Internationalism of Life History Research in the 21st Century, 18 June 2015 - The 7th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conferenceYou can view and download the CLHLWR Annual Report for 2014 here.
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Free event: 24 March 2015: Uncomfortable memories? On being German and not Jewish.
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You can view and download the CLHLWR Annual Report for 2014 here.
- Researching Uniqueness' The 6th annual Brighton/Sussex PG conference (6 June 2014).
- 'Feminist pioneers of social research ...' Listen to recordings of the CLHLWR 19 March 2014 here.
- Introducing CLHLWR's new administrators and researchers Angela Campos and Alexandra Loske
- Download our full 2014 programme of events, workshops, lectures, courses etc here.
- Public and Personal Archives: Creative Negotiations, 4 April 2014, full programme here.
- Dr Stephen Weiss 'War, Death and Second Chance', 12 Feb 2014. Listen to the talk here.
- OHS 2013 Conference Programme [PDF 633.41KB]
- OHS 2013 Abstracts booklet [PDF 1.15MB]
- Hearing Her: New Feminist Oral Histories, 11 April 2013 [PDF 288.77KB]
- The University of Sussex Oral History project and the story of the Meeting House
- Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project