International Guest Lectures on Oral History
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to invite you to attend lectures of our two esteemed international guests, dr. Indira Chowdhury and Prof. Dr. Alessandro Portelli. The lectures will be held on Thursday 20 April 2017, starting at 4:30 pm, in lecture room no. U13 (José Martího 31, Prague 6 – Veleslavín):
The predicament of legacy: Oral histories of scientists of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and what they tell us
Dr. Indira Chowdhury (oral historian, founder and head of Center for Public History, Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India; 2014-2016 president of International Oral History Association)
Discovering oral history in the Italian context
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Portelli (oral historian, Italian scholar of American literature and culture, musicologist and journalist; professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza; one of the first oral historians to take a closer look on changes of individual and collective memory)
On behalf of the organizers
Prof. PaedDr. et Mgr. Miroslav Vaněk, Ph.D. – head of Department of Oral History – Contemporary History
PhDr. Pavel Mücke, Ph.D. – project coordinator
Invitation
| Event start |
20 April 2017 at 4:30 PM |
| Event end |
20 April 2017 at 7:30 PM |
| Type of event |
Lecture |
| Organiser |
Department of Oral History – Contemporary History |
| Venue |
University area Vokovice (José Martího 31, Prague 6 – Veleslavín), room U13 |
| Target group |
Academic community |
| Reservation |
no |
| Admission fee |
no |
| Disabled access |
yes |
