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Ms Jessica Douthwaite

PhD candidate
University of Strathclyde
Participates in 1 Session
I began an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, entitled ‘Voices of the Cold War in 1950s Britain’, in October 2014. As a partnership between IWM and the University of Strathclyde, my research investigates the experiences of the Cold War by ordinary British people in the 1950s through oral history testimony. In doing so, it will give voice to routine engagement with predominant Cold War themes. The research will interrogate how Britons felt towards the Cold War in their everyday lives. I am particularly interested in experiences of how emotion impacts on individual and collective political engagement. Previously I studied a master’s in International History at London School of Economics and BA in History at the University of Sussex. Having worked in education and museums I am fascinated by life story collections beyond academia, in community and public engagement; as a result I also sit on a Board of Trustees for a London-based oral history charity called Eastside Community Heritage. Prizes 2015: First prize in the Social History Society Postgraduate poster competition. Conference organisation February 2015 – present: member of conference organising committee, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: What's it Worth? The Value and Potential of the CDA, 27 July 2015. Papers • June 2015: Modern British History Network annual conference ‘…When one side’s got it the other side has to have it… What did ‘Cold War’ mean in everyday life 1945-62? • September 2015: University of Essex, Popular Myth & Memory conference ‘Montage in oral history: listening for emotions through collaged events’. • November 2015: University of Strathclyde humanities research seminar ‘Ideals and inheritance: being an ‘ethical’ woman in the past and present’. • March 2016: EUROPEAN Social Science History conference ‘An ‘age of fear’? Deciphering untold emotions in oral histories’. Publications 2017: co-authoring chapter with Jonathan Hogg. ‘Memory and oral history’ in Using Primary Sources, University of Liverpool e-textbook.

Sessions in which Ms Jessica Douthwaite participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00

Sessions in which Ms Jessica Douthwaite attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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17:00
17:00
  • Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
  • 17:00 - 19:30  | 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
11:00
11:00
13:30
13:30
  • Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
  • 13:30 - 15:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past and the present, and there is a growing tendency for the...
  • Regular session
    Heritage Changes the Local Societies
    Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
19:00
19:00
  • Film Series: De engel van Doel
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
  • 19:00 - 21:00  | 2 hours
  • Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
  • Public event

Monday 6 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
  • In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
  • Signup required
  • Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
  • 9:00 - 10:30  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ru...
  • Roundtable
    Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageIndustrial HeritageOral HistoryUrban HeritagePublic event
    Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers
13:30
13:30

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
7:00
15:30
15:30