Oral History and Regeneration
Creation, Destruction, Memory:
Oral History and Regeneration
Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July 2011,
Sir Tom Cowie Campus, St Peter’s, University of Sunderland
DRAFT Programme
Friday, 1 July, 20119.30 / Registration, tea and coffee
9.50-10.40 / Higher Education Funding Session
10.50 / Welcome by Professor Gary Holmes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Sunderland
11.00 / Scene Setting – Paul Evans, Director of UK Regeneration – Is regeneration already history?
Chair:
11.30 / Keynote Speaker: Fred Robinson, Professorial Fellow, St Chad’s College, DurhamUniversity and Visiting Professor, Northumbria and TeesideUniversities
Chair:
12.15 / LUNCH
13.15-14.35
Parallel Session 1 / BethanCouplandUniversity of Exeter, Voices from a ‘Regenerated’ Community: Oral History and Mining Heritage at Big Pit
Jenni Lister and Colin McCourt, Cumbria Archive Centre & Local Studies Library, Sellafield’s Story: change in West Cumbria
Nafhesa Ali,University of Huddersfield, Asian Voices: From South Asia to Springwood
Rosi Lister,The Churches Conservation Trust, Regenerating historic churches for wider use
Mike Greatbatch, NewcastleCity Council, and Silvie Fisch,Changing Ouseburn 1997-2011
Kath Smith, Remembering the Past, Resourcing the Future Project, and Chris Bishop, North Tyneside Council,Reclaiming local heritage in North Tyneside: the role of oral history in the regeneration of three iconic local buildings
Sandra Parvu and Alain Guez,ArchitectureSchool of Paris La Villette, Time Horizons in La Courneuve
Catherine Croft, C20 Society, Oral history and regeneration of twentieth century architecture
Sophie Laidler,DurhamUniversity, Contemporary and Competing Vistas: Public Perceptions of Wearmouth and Jarrow
14.40–16.00
Parallel Session 2 / Yat Ming Loo, Islington Chinese Association, Vanishing Chinatown: Myth, Memory and History
UllaPohjamoUniversity of Jyväskylä, Hietasaari Suburban Heritage as Lived, as Planned, as Narrated
Faguna Barmahalia,Oral History and the Bodo Ethnic Identity
Anthony McIntosh,University of Brighton, Oral history in mapping a relationship between communities and the historic built environment: public monuments, social capital and sense of place
Sam Richards, Present-day impact of traditional song and music in Devon in the 1970s and ‘80s
Jill Collins Birmingham Institute of Art & Design,‘Down Your Way’ : The Importance of Stories and Other ‘Intangible’ Aspects When Examining Regeneration Initiatives
DavidPalmerUniversity of Kent, Ethiopian places in London and identity
Nicholas Williams,SaarlandUniversity, A community reborn: Las Terrazas (Cuba) and its memories
Sam Smith,Hearts of Steel: Reinterpreting and raising awareness about Rotherham's steel communities for a wider audience
16.00 / Break
16.15 / Keynote Speaker: Roger Madelin, Joint Chief Executive, Argent Group, interviewed by Alan Dein,BBC Radio broadcaster, formerly oral historian at Kings Cross Voices
17.00- 17.35 / Oral History Society AGM (all welcome)
17.45 / Free local guided walks – Sunderland Riverside and St Peter’s Church
19.30 / Evening Meal: National Glass Centre (optional, extra charge), followed by
Chris Mullin, Author, Journalist and Politician
Saturday, 2 July, 2011
9.30 – 10.50
Parallel Session 3 / Simon Bradley,University of Huddersfield, Backwards to go forwards: oral history, regeneration and locative media in Holbeck, Leeds
Gill Cookson, DurhamUniversity, Sunderland Heritage Quarter: oral history, regeneration and the East End of Sunderland
Sarah Williams Cornwall Council Economic Development Service, Traces and places: storytelling to inform regeneration
MichaelBelgraveMasseyUniversity, Maori oral histories in New Zealand: Reclaiming the planner's landscape
GlynRobbinsLondonMetropolitanUniversity, ‘You don’t listen to us’: Competing narratives of contested places
LeeHallUniversity of Sunderland, Making the past historical: Voices of regenerated Sunderland
Mo Cooper, The St Ann's Allotments, Nottingham, St Ann’s Allotments: the people's fight against destruction
Michaela Lawler-Levene, Friends of St James' Park, Recreation, Reminiscence and Re-creation: Urban regeneration and oral history in Southampton’s St James’ Park
10.50 / Break
11.10 / Amber Films Presentation
12.00 / Specialist parallel information sessions on higher education, archiving and equipment
12.45 / Lunch
13.30 / Discussion: Oral History is everywhere so do we need the Oral History Society anymore?(title tbc)
14.25 – 15.45
Parallel Session 4 / Heather Hunt Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative, ‘Live one day at a time but farm as if it's for the next 100 years’:Farmers’ oral history informs contemporary a community supported agriculture project
Roger Kitchen, Dig Where You Stand – using local lives to generate community in Milton Keynes
Bill Williams Regeneration and ethnic minorities: the case of Moss Side
ChristopherWebbUniversity of Huddersfield, Greenhead Stories: Memories of the Park during the regeneration process
Tony Wright,Wild Rose Heritage and Arts, Life experiences enhancing regeneration in HebdenBridge
Abigail Downer ScapeSpace, Threading Through the Landscape: The Itchen Navigation Arts Project
Helen Foster Bathgate Once More, British Leyland
Jean Price, Economic and cultural regeneration strategies: Oral History and Endangered Language
Pam Schweitzer, European Reminiscence Network, ‘Just like the Country’: an intergenerational oral history and theatre project addressing change on a large council estate in South East London
15.50 / Plenary Session
16.30 / CONFERENCE ENDS