Workshop programme ‘Stories of Trauma, Survival, and Resilience An Oral History Training in Honor of George Placzek’

Workshop of the Instytut Historii PAN, Warszawa, in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS

Stories of Trauma, Survival, and Resilience
An Oral History Training in Honor of George Placzek

September 12, 2022, 8.30-16.30
Praha, Gabčíkova 10

Keynote speaker: prof. Paul Burnett, Oral History Center, UC Berkeley

Objectives of the workshop:

• Managing an oral history project
• Oral history interpretation, public history, and archiving
• Oral history, trauma, and healing: conversation about the risks and promise of oral history in wartime

Interviews with scholars – presentation of two projects:

• Czechoslovak-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in the Cold War (Tomáš W. Pavlíček)
• The Czech Physics Oral History Project (Paul Burnett)

A programme of the workshop is attached below.