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3 February: A Final lecture for the seminar series “Oral History and the digital transformation. Some historical, ethical and methodological remarks” by Prof. Dr. Linde Apel

Prof. Dr. Linde Apel will give an open presentation, “Oral History and the Digital Transformation. Some historical, ethical and methodological remarks,” as a part of the Voices Unbound: Lecture Series on Digital Oral History. The lecture takes places on 3rd February at 14:25 (CET) and accommodates online format. To participate please navigate to Eventbrite page.

Prof. Dr. Linde Apel. Image courtesy: https://zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de/dr-linde-apel.html

Linde Apel is the head of the interview archive Workshop of Memory at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Germany. She co-organizes the Network Oral History since 2014 with Stefan Müller (FES). Her research topics include the history of migration, urban history, holocaust history and the history of oral history. Her latest publications are: Tuning in. Emotions, Relations, and Dynamics in the Analysis of an Archive Interview, in: The Oral History Review, 51, 1, 2024 (with Andrea Althaus, Janine Schemmer, and Lina Nikou); Erzählungen des Ankommens. Hamburger Perspektiven auf Migration und Stadt, in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 64, 2024 (with Andrea Althaus and Jana Matthies).

The abstract of the talk is as follows:

The development of oral history has always been strongly influenced by technological developments. As a result, oral historians have often been technologically savvy and open to change. In my talk, I will discuss how approaches to interviews and demands on their accessibility are changing as a result of the increasing and increasingly taken-for-granted digitization of (historical) scholarship and research processes. It is notable that, at least in the German-speaking academic community, there is a growing interest in oral history interviews among those who do not specialize in this particular field. This is largely because such interviews can now be located and utilized far more effectively in digital format. What are the implications of this for the production of oral history sources, and for the lengthy and costly process of conducting interviews? What role do the long-standing and painstakingly compiled oral history archives play in this? Should interviews be regarded as a form of research data? In light of the growing availability and utilization of digitally recorded interviews, what factors need to be taken into account when interviews are available in digital format and employed in digital research?


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