This workshop, organised by the Oral History and Interviewing Working Group, explores how interviewing those belonging to marginalised communities enhances already-existing tensions around emotions, vulnerability, and oral history.
How can researchers ask sensitive questions from subjects and acquire information on their daily lives, desires, secrets, and traumas? And when did they better not try to uncover a secret they assumed to be hidden under the surface of the narrative? How can researchers find ways to engage with vulnerable subjects in sensitive, non-extractivist ways, led by an ethics of care?
In the first part of the workshop, we will hear from two keynote speakers. Dr. Ráhel Katalin Turai and Dr. Natalya Benkhaled-Vince will reflect on interviewing as a feminist practice in Eastern Europe and North Africa.
The second part of the workshop is dedicated to the projects of researchers, where they present their findings and questions in two small groups and receive feedback from their peers, Dr. Turai and Dr. Benkhaled-Vince.
If researchers want to discuss their individual projects in the workshop session then they need to submit a brief project description by the 14th of April, and they should reach out to Georgia Katakou or Zsófia Veszely, for further information
Please register to get a seat or to receive the ZOOM link.
Picture: "Handle with care", by Emese Veszely, 2025