Los retos de la historia oral en el siglo XXI: diversidades ...

Sesiones paralelas / Parallel sessionsces. Therefore, it is a sign that although three decades have passed, the traumacharacteristic of the situations lived in captivity have marked their personal lives.Margarita Camus, some time after “recovering” her freedom, considered thatit was her duty to make her testimony public, so that these terrifying situationsoccur never again in our country. The paradox in Margarita Camus’ life is that,after recovered her freedom, she pursued Law studies and she is currently holdingthe post of judge. This new space finds her as an “activist” in pursuit ofrescuing the memory.GÓMEZ ALBENTOSA, FerranHistoria de un rumor en guerra. El caso de la “nochede los moros” en Guardamar del Segura (Alicante,1936)Guardamar del Segura (Alicante, Spain) is a seaside town which remainded atthe Republican rearguard after the failure of the coup d’état by General Francoon 18 July 1936. Its population daily life, at the begining of the Civil War, sufferedfrom some changes due to some revolutionary experiencies. However, itsinhabitants’ eveyday life was changed by the spread of a piece of false news.On 28 November 1936, during the night, while Alicante (the capital city) wasbeing bombed, Francoist’s troops, “Franco’s Moors” to be more precise, weregoing to disembark in La Mata (a hamlet of the town). The lack of written sourcesmakes the oral story become the only possible way to analyze the affair weare working on.The aim of this work proposal is, first of all, to stablish the social context inwhich the event was developed. Then, to try to reconstruct the affair andknow the way the spread of that rumour affected the inhabitants. And finally,to analyze the influence of rumours in case of a war on a rearguardpopulation with the intention of getting some conclusions over this particularaffair.——————————————————————————————————————————————Espacio Virrey Liniers——————————————————————————————————————————————MESA PANEL 8Fundamentos metodológicos para reconstruir elpasado desde ladiversidadA cargo de: Laura BenadibaPanelistas: María Luisa Iglesias Hernández, Arturo Lev AlvarezAbreuComenta: Juan José GUTIÉRREZ——————————————————————————————————————————————11 a 11.15 – Coffee Break——————————————————————————————————————————————11.15 a 13.15 horasCentro Cultural General San Martín——————————————————————————————————————————————Subtema / Subteme 12Migraciones, memorias del exilio, diásporas, y lahuella de las fronteras en la memoria / Migration,Exhile, Disaporas, and Borderlands.Sala C - Mesa / Session 51Coordinan / Chair: Mario Ayala Silvina Jensen——————————————————————————————————————————————GODERDZISHVILI,TsisanaMigration, Cultural Conflicts and Oral HistoriesInternational labor migration is very topical issue for Georgia since 90-ies ofthe last century, when collapse of the Soviet Union in the country caused economicand political crisis. Despite the fact that the mass migration is a comprisedsocial phenomenon, in the country is observed the failure of conceptualunderstanding of the problem, which is rarely within academic focus and understoodprimarily in economic terms. But in most cases announced economic,sometimes behind the political nature migration motivation exists latentfactors that are caused by cultural features and plays leading role in push-pullmodel. Here we aim to analyze through human memory how is the constructionof cultural identity of migrants and its role in integration process with hostsociety; What are the main determinants of conflicts of cultures. We show thesignificance of oral histories presenting migrants not as “objects” but as “subjects”and providing us with an opportunity to acquire a relatively completeidea concerning the identity of a narrator; discover even earlier experiencesdetermined by socio-cultural peculiarities, which subsequently formed a motivationfor migration. On the example of the oral history of one of the femalelabor migrants (which will remain the main leitmotif throughout the wholeessay), we will consider labor migration from the social and cultural point ofview, attempting to show that labor migration deeply penetrates cultural dimensions(besides economic and political dimensions) where it may triggerconflicts at the personal and social levels.HLADNIK, Mirjam M.Identity construction in migrants’ narratives and contestednotions of belonging contemporary Europe. Acomparative perspectiveA comparative perspective will be presented through two different sets ofnarratives, from two different continents and two different historical eras.Two sets of narratives compare life stories of Slovenian migrants and theirdescendants in the USA (the period of mass migration 1900-1950) and the lifestories of contemporary migrants and “Others” to Slovenia (a newly independentcountry since 1991 and a member of EU). The narratives subvert simplebinary positions of belonging (or-or) and show how people negotiate, reviseand relocate the notions of belonging in the specificity of their experiences andinterpretations in the particular social, political and cultural context. The comparisonis the way to grasp the contemporary paranoia of immigration in Europein the historical context of mass emigration out of Europe. In this regard,the migrants’ narratives show, how the contested notion of belonging and therestructuring of identities are inherent of the process of transformation of asociety affected by migration, and not only of the individuals and groups ofmigrants. It is not only on the level of individuals but also on the level of societiesand states or supra-states (European Union), that we should understandthe transformative urgency of identities construction as a tool to change orto reproduce social inequalities and the hierarchies of superiority and inferiority.The narratives of Slovenian migrants to the USA were made into a documentaryfilm “100% Slovenian” (2005) and parts of it will be shown duringthe presentation. The narratives of migrants to Slovenia are audio and photomaterial, which will be presented in a few excerpts.JOHN, MichaelNostalgia and Reconciliation? Memories of/from aForeign LandLEVI, Amalia S.From Personal Narratives to Collective Memory:Spinning a Web from Oral HistoryEthnic oral histories are part of the collective memory of diaspora communities,whose geographic dispersion is reflected in the dispersion of their material,but also of minority populations, whose voice has usually been silencedin memory institutions. With rare exceptions, the creation, transcription, andcuration of these oral histories are a sequence of nearly monastic acts in isolateduniverses. Only in the minds of scholars, researchers and lay users whoultimately use archival or museum collections do the rich network of associationsthat were linguistically encoded long ago using the spoken word againbecome connected. Surely we can do better. In this paper, we begin to explorethe potential for enriching transcribed oral histories with a rich network oflinks, both to other oral histories and to other primary and secondary sourcematerials. Toward this end, we have developed the Oral History Annotation Assistant,an interactive online tool, to support a manual process of linking specificpassages in a transcript to external resources. As the diversity of onlineprimary and secondary source materials continue to expand, the value andscope of such a tool will continue to grow. We view this manual linking merelyas the starting point for our process of building a set of tools that will helpusers and practitioners alike to draw connections that ultimately add value toarchival or museum collections, and we are looking towards creating points ofcontact between oral histories and the Linked Open Data that underlies theso-called “semantic Web.” Eventually, while each oral history provides onepath for unveiling memory, this kind of contextualization could create a web ofsuch paths, providing diverse points of contact, both in and out, thus helpingto conceptualize individual narratives as an indispensable tool for historicalresearch in our networked world.105