Masterclass with Penny Russell Reading Intimacy

Activity: Teaching and learning › Practicum/ WIL, clinical or field work, service learning supervision

Description

This masterclass will explore strategies for using personal archives – diaries, letters, memoirs, oral histories and life stories – in humanities research. Such records are often fragmented: and where they have the appearance of completeness, it is all the more important to treat them cautiously, and to notice the gaps, silences, and omissions that give shape to the stories they contain. Drawing on her years of experience of working both critically and empathetically with intimate archives, Penny Russell will invite discussion on the possibilities and pitfalls of this treacherous – but always fascinating – terrain.
Period11 Oct 2024
Held atUWA Institute of Advanced Studies, Australia
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • Research Mentorship
  • Archives