All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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Political Elites and Dissidents in the years 1969 - 1989. Biographical interviews.
| The Center for Oral History at the Institute for Contemporary History in Prague, Czech Republic is continuing work on the project "Political Elites and Dissidents in the period of so-called Normalization (1968-1989)". 120 interviews were conducted with leading and middle level Communist functionaries (50 interviews from Jakes down) as well as leading and middle level dissidents (70 interviews from Havel down). The amount of data collected is significant, with more than 500 hours of recording and 7000 pages of transciption, but much of the content is also unique as many informants - including such top figures as Jakes and Stepan- agreed for the first time to grant iterviews. We are beginning analysis of this trove of data, but preliminary results are already quite interesting and suggestive. For example, the focus of the respondants on their official capacities to the relative exclusion of personal narratives, suggest that both the Political Elites and the dissidents are concerned with validating their own historical position. Oral history is often criticized for the subjectivity of its source material, but this project demonstrates the need to pay critical attention to the question of perspective and the possibility of counterbalancing narratives. Thus, it is very promising in terms of both the theory and practice of Oral History. The original content of the project also promises to make a significant contribution to understanding of the Normalization period in Czechoslovakia and the field of Contemporary History generally. The analysis is projected to be completed by December 2005 so I will be able to present the final results and analysis at the conference in March.
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