Financial History of Europe

eabh oral history project

28 Jan 2016 at 2:00pm

Florence, Italy

Leading European experts  (British Library, Historical Archives of the European Union, Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l´Europe) will share their knowledge about oral history projects.

Oral History  offers us the unique opportunity to collect and preserve the memories, views and attitudes from a variety of people working in different positions in financial sector. Oral history recordings bring an additional dimension to modern financial archives.

The workshop will focus on the methodology of oral history:

• Identification of Material and Funding:  How to set up a long term oral history project
• Planning and Managing: How to co-ordinate, transcribe, select and edit the collected testimonies
• Skill set: How to set up an interview?
• Laws and Ethics: How do e.g. confidentiality clauses in the financial sector affect projects?
• Equipment: Which are the technical requirements and possibilities and how can they be used to their fullest extent? Which documentation is needed alongside the recordings?
• Storage: short term and long term preservation of audio and video material
• Promotion and Access: How to present the project and its findings to a wider audience?
• Models: Presentations of  exemplary oral history projects (in finance)

 

Programme

14.00 - 14.05	Welcome Pasquale Ferrara, Secretary General EUI
14.05 - 14.15	Opening Dieter Schlenker, Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union
14.15 - 16.30	Oral History: Methodology Ronald Kroeze, VU University Amsterdam Rob Perks, Lead curator Oral History at British Library Susana Munoz, Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) Luxembourg Pierre de Longuemar, BNP Paribas
16.30 - 16.45	Coffee
16.45 - 18.15	Oral History: LAB (practice) Discussions and practical exercises towards the development of oral history projects. Interview set up and techniques, legal and ethics questions. Moderators: Michele Blagg, King's College London and Rob Perks, British Library
18.30 - 19.30	Cocktail reception Villa Salviati - Il Grotto -