Oral History Training Amsterdam

Kick-off meeting & training for partners in Amsterdam on 13 to 15 November

 

Day 1

Participants: Local coordinators and trainers oral history training for fieldworkers (2 persons per city)

13.00 hrs – 17.00 hrs

 

Introduction

• Getting to know each other
• Headlines of the project Specially Unknown *

Steering groups, local partnerships and fieldworkers

• The choice of relevant refugee communities to be involved in the project (third country nationals) *
• The role of the local steering groups *
• The profile and the selection of fieldworkers *
• The tasks of the fieldworkers *

 

18.30 -19.30 Dinner

 

20.00 -22.30

 

Theory and method of oral history

• The relevance of (life) stories
• Developments in the field of oral history
• Examples of different types of interviews
• Questionnaires or topics? Do’s and dont’s
• Sorrow and traumas

 

 

Day 2

Participants: Local coordinators and trainers oral history training for fieldworkers (2 persons per city)

10.00 – 12.30

 

Materials and local programs

• Who will own the interviews?
• Accessibility of the interviews (streaming)
• Controlling of transcriptions
• What kind of cultural productions do we fancy?
• The relevance of co-creation

Budget and administration

• Budget sheet an time sheets registration system *
• Administration of participants
• Permissions forms
• Subcontracting *
• Invoices and other payments *

* Documents related to this topic will be distributed in advance of the meeting/training

 

Delphi research and general communication

• Questionnaires and partners
• Websites and social media (local and for the project as a whole)
• Other means of communication

Training of the fieldworkers (introduction)

• 8 days of training, starting in December 2017
• 4 to 8 fieldworkers in each city
• 40 interviews per city
• Assistance to the making of cultural productions

12.30 – 13.30 lunch

 

13.30 -17.00

 

Practice of oral history

• Interview, camera and sound
• Transcriptions, metadata and permission forms

Cultural productions and co creation

• Use of the interview material
• Examples and good practices
• The role of the steering groups

* Documents related to this topic will be distributed in advance of the meeting/training

 

 

Day 3

Participants: trainers local oral history training for fieldworkers, (1 person per city)

10.00 – 12.30

 

Interview practice

• Each participant makes a short interview with camera and sound
• Reviewing the interviews, which lessons do we learn?
• Transcriptions (and the use of software)
• The workflow of an interview

12.30 – 13.30 lunch

 

13.30 – 16.30

 

The training of the fieldworkers

• The program of the 8 days training for fieldworkers *
• The role of the teacher and guest trainers

Further appointments and arrangements

 

* Documents related to this topic will be distributed in advance of the meeting/training