FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SOCIETY | Workshop
Shared Authority and Multimedia Processing of Oral History Collections
Monday 22 September, 09:00 - 12:00
SC2-314, Seminarierummet, Scylla, Nordenskioldsgatan 6
About Michael Frisch
This workshop is led by Professor Michael Frisch. The Author of A Shared Authority (1990) and (with photographer Milton Rogovin) Portraits in Steel (1993). Michael Frisch was for many years Professor of American Studies and History, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Editor of Oral History Review (1986-1996), he has been President of the American Studies Association (2000-2001), and the Oral History Association (2009–2010).
More recently, he has turned a long academic career in oral and public history into consulting and software development helping organizations create meaningful access to the stories, photos, and oral histories they generate and collect, sharing these in dramatic new ways with the communities that matter to them.
Interactive workshop
The workshop will explore how dramatic new tools and approaches bring a dialogic “Shared Authority” understanding not just to oral history interviewing, but to multimedia processing of oral history collections.
In a field traditionally shaped by either an “archival sensibility” (managing the “raw”) or a “documentary sensibility” (producing the “cooked” – a particular film, exhibit, research publication), these tools and approaches embody a practical, reachable, and shareable “instrumental sensibility” – working in the oral history “kitchen” to DO something(s), flexibly processing documentation in a spectrum of dimensions to support a range of immediate uses and applications reaching diverse audiences.
After these tools and approaches are introduced, the seminar/workshop will actively explore them through close examination of provided examples in two modes-- photo-elicitation short-form oral history on a social-media platform, and a long-form oral history interview “mapped”, in a sequence of iterations, from base AI transcription to publishable digested/edited versions, to thematic verbatim passages and multimedia clips.
If you wish to participate in the workshop, please email Malin Thor Tureby no later than 20 September.
The workshop is organised by the research project The Etichal Dilemmas of Digitaliztion and with support from the Humaniorakollegiet vid Malmö universitet.
