Lecture: Leaving-Making Sense of Poignant Memories
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- November 16th, 2009
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Presented by Professor Alistair Thomson
We all have stories about leaving.
Leaving is a universal human experience, though its nature and meaning vary across time and culture. I realise now that over more than 25 years many of my oral history interviews have included very ordinary and yet quite extraordinary leaving stories. In this lecture we’ll listen to the leaving stories of men who went to war and women who migrated to the other side of the world. How have they told stories and made sense of leaving? Why are those stories so jagged and sharp, etched with the sounds of silence? How can historians make useful sense of poignant memories?
Following the lecture, please join us for drinks & nibbles on the 8th floor of Building H in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
RSVP: 13 November to susan.grist@arts.monash.edu.au for catering purposes
Produced by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation