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Voces Oral History Research Summer Institute at the University of Texas at Austin
June 8-12, 2020

Faculty and graduate students interested in launching their oral history work, or refining their approach
to oral history, are invited to apply to this week-long summer training. Led by two professors who have
developed several oral history projects, the summer institute will include guest lectures from archivists,
equipment experts, and others. Instruction covers publishing academic work using oral history as a
primary methodology and teaching oral history at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Lead instructors:
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
• Founder and Director, Voces Oral History Center;
• Founder and Editor, US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal
Todd Moye, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of North Texas
• Former Director, Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project; 2017-2018
• President, Oral History Association

Application deadline: Monday, March 9, 2020

Cost: $750 (no scholarships available)

Reduced rate housing available to participants.

For application requirements, go to: Vocessummerinstitute.org

For more information: voces@utexas.edu

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Journalism
The University of Texas at Austin
mrivas@austin.utexas.edu
Moody College of Communication
--also –
Founder and Director, Voces Oral History Center
And Founder and Editor, U.S. Latina & Latino Oral History Journal
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Greetings Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez,

New items have been posted in H-OralHist.

Table of Contents
1. National Health Service at 70 -- We need your help to record its history!
2. Submission Deadline Extended for "The Materiality of Festivity"

National Health Service at 70 -- We need your help to record its history!

by Angela Whitecross

"NHS at 70: The Story of our Lives" is a UK-wide programme of oral history, based in
the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of
Manchester.

We are creating the first digital archive of NHS history through recording the stories of
people who have worked for and been treated by the NHS since 1948. We have
recorded over 700 interviews since 2017 and aim to have over 1000 in our collection.

We are crowdfunding until 1 March 2020 to raise funds to support our ongoing work.

Your support would be greatly appreciated! Please share this message or get in touch
and share your NHS story!

Find out more here:

https://manchester.hubbub.net/p/nhs-at-70/

Visit our website and discover some of the stories we have already collected here:

https://www.nhs70.org.uk/

Many thanks!
 Angela
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Submission Deadline Extended for "The Materiality of Festivity"

by Isabel Machado

The Journal of Festive Studies is extending the deadline for submissions for its special issue on "The
Materiality of Festivity," scheduled for late 2020.

In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic subfield of festive
studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s
advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other
festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

The 1996 inaugural editorial for the Journal of Material Culture defined Material Culture Studies as
“interdisciplinary research in ways in which artifacts are implicated in the construction, maintenance
and transformation of social identities” and as the “investigation of the relationship between people
and things irrespective of time and place” (Editorial,1996). More recent studies have expanded the
scope of the discipline to look at the agency of things (Latour, 2005), thus rejecting “any absolute
ontological distinction between humans and things” (Roberts, 2017). The field has also seen a shift
from the exclusive focus on consumption to an investigation of the production of objects and
materials (Adamson, 2013 and 2018 and Smith, 2012). Other approaches include investigations of
ways in which the exchange of objects shapes social life and experiences; how that process is
negotiated intra-cultures (Appadurai, 1986); and the environmental impact of those objects and
materials (Clarke-Hazlett, 1997, Ingold, 2012, and Morton, 2013). Furthermore, there has been a
move to understand the materiality of things beyond finished manufactured products, or the raw
matter of which these objects consist of, in all of its socio-historical and political implications (Lange-
Berndt, 2015, Ingold, 2012, and Rosler et al., 2013). Scholars of festivities have also paid attention
to the “things” that constitute the phenomena they investigate, whether by poetically capturing in
photos and in text the embodiment of Caribbean history and identity in Trinidadian Mas (Adonis
Browne, 2018); by analyzing how banners and flags display identity through color in Belfast’s
Orange Parade (Jarman, 2003); or by questioning why we consume (or abstain from consuming)
certain foods during festivities (Avieli, 2009).

Building on such scholarship, and taking the material record of celebrations from all time periods and
geographical areas as a starting point, this special issue of Journal of Festive Studies seeks to
explore the following themes/questions:

- The things themselves: costumes, jewelry, makeup, musical instruments, the body itself,
posters, flags and banners, float designs, paintings of Renaissance processions, sheet music,
photographs, food, etc. What does the material record of festivities include?
- The preservation of that material culture: What are the politics of curating and what are the
material constraints bearing on archival sites?
- Objects as part of a mise-en-scène of identity: How is identity created-recreated-negotiated
through masking, costumes, makeup, etc.? How is gender and sexual normativity
created/expressed/challenged through interactions with objects in celebrations?
- Imagining communities: What is the role of these objects/materials/artifacts in the creation of
imagined communities during these celebrations? How do individuals and communities relive and
reinvent traumatic pasts through rituals and the artifacts used to physically manifest them?
- The evolution and circulation of things: How does the material record of celebrations change
over time, reflecting different socio-historical moments? How do geopolitical realities, global
capitalism, and the flow of ideas and things affect the material record of celebrations?
- What role do these objects play in current debates on decoloniality and cultural appropriation?
- The environmental problems caused by the objects/materials used in festivities (such as the
plastic pollution of Mardi Gras beads in the US Gulf Coast) and the environmental solutions
encountered by festival organizers and revelers (such as the ban on glitter in Sydney’s LGBTQ
Mardi Gras).

Contributors may also choose to focus on some of the methodological issues faced by scholars
researching festivities across the globe and how does material culture feature in these processes.
For instance, how does equipment affect the way the researcher interacts with their subject? What
sorts of objects, outfits, and accouterments are used in the researcher’s “performance of self” during
fieldwork and how might that affect their relation to the people and environment they are observing?

In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the Journal of Festive Studies, we welcome submissions of
original research and analysis rooted in a variety of fields including (but not limited to): social and
cultural history, anthropology, archeology, cultural geography, art history, architecture, decorative
arts, technology, folklore, musicology, consumption studies, labor studies, museum studies, and
design studies. In addition to traditional academic essays, we invite contributions that incorporate
digital media such as visualizations, interactive timelines and maps, video, and imagery.

All documents should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words and should be uploaded by February 29,
2020, to the journal's website, along with the author’s bio and an abstract of c. 250 words. Please
consult the author’s guidelines under “Submissions” on the website for further submission
specifications, such as citation methods. Please contact Isabel Machado (isabelmchd@gmail.com)
with any questions.

Works cited:

“Editorial.” Journal of Material Culture 1, no. 1 (March 1996): 5-14.

Adamson, Glenn. The Craft Reader. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2010.
Adamson, Glenn. The Invention of Craft. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2013.
Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Theory, Culture &
Society 7, no. 2–3 (June 1990): 295–310.
Avieli, Nir. “‘At Christmas We Don’t Like Pork, Just Like the MacCabees’: Festive Food and
Religious Identity at the Protestant Christmas Picnic in Hoi An.” Journal of Material Culture 14, no. 2
(June 2009): 219–41
Bauer, Arnold J. Somos lo que compramos: historia de la cultura material en América Latina.
México: Taurus, 2002.
Browne, Kevin Adonis. High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Photography. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Clarke-Hazlett, Christopher. “Interpreting Environmental History through Material Culture.” Material
Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle, [S.l.], June 1997.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, and Eugene Rochberg-Halton. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols
and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Top of Form
Ingold, Tim. “Toward an Ecology of Materials.” Annual Review of Anthropology 41 (2012): 427-42.
Jarman, Neil. “Material of Culture, Fabric of identity.” In Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter,
edited by Daniel Miller, 121-145. London: Routledge, 2003.
Lange-Berndt, Petra. Materiality. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015.
Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005.
 Madison, D. Soyini. Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance. Los Angeles, CA: Sage,
2012.
Roberts, Jennifer L. “Things: Material Turn, Transnational Turn.” American Art 31, no. 2 (Summer
2017): 64-69.
Rosler, Martha, Caroline Walker Bynum, Natasha Eaton, Michael Ann Holly, Amelia Jones, Michael
Kelly, Robin Kelsey, Alisa LaGamma, Monika Wagner, Oliver Watson, and Tristan Weddigen. “Notes
from the Field: Materiality.” The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (2013): 10-37.
Smith, Pamela H. “In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Meaning.” West 86th: A Journal
of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 19, no. 1 (2012): 4-31.
Verbeek, Peter-Paul. What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and
Design. Penn State: Penn State University Press, 2005.

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