Description
On 17 april, the research cluster Heritage & Identity will host a special workshop that uses the unique format of a "collaborative data session", in which we will collaboratively analyze interview fragments from Denise Schreuder's PhD research on the (grand)children of collaborators. This workshop will be led by Wouter Reggers, who is a PhD Researcher (FNRS-FRESH), UCLouvain // Ghent University on the subject of intergenerational family memories on collaboration and colonization in Belgium.Abstract
In her PhD project Denise Schreuder investigates how contemporary descendants of former collaborators in the Netherlands, Flanders and Wallonia reflect on and narrate their wartime family history in the public domain through various media. The collective memory of wartime collaboration and its postwar punishment in these countries/regions is fundamentally distinct, but at the same time still sensitive and contested. The focus of this research is to get a better understanding of how divergent societal contexts co-determine how descendants process and narrate their wartime family histories. For her research Denise will conduct interviews with ± 45 descendants of the involved countries/regions. In recent months, she has conducted a first series of interviews with Flemish descendants.
This data session enhances an exercise of collaborative micro-analysis of a fragment of one of those oral history interviews. As participants, you will receive the audio recording and a detailed transcription of the fragment in question, but otherwise the data piece is almost completely decontextualized. We will analyze the fragment in question from the refined perspective of a micro-interaction and discuss together our findings. In this way, we try to take a fresh look at the data, but also to learn from each other how we approach text and for which specific parts we need new (theoretical) context and concepts.
| Period | 17 Apr 2025 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Rotterdam, NetherlandsShow on map |
Research programs
- ESHCC HIS