Silence occurs in every oral history interview and comes in many forms and with many significances. This symposium readdress these complexities, the way oral history tries to remedy the silence of certain groups in the archives and the different ways in which historians use silence themselves in oral history.
In the early 1970s, feminists took to the streets. Their militancy was young and dynamic: they wrote, talked and listened, demonstrated and campaigned. Their desire was for a society dedicated to solidarity, equality and self-determination for all. The exhibition “Liberating women, changing the world” (2020) explores their views and actions.
This lecure pictures the many positions that women and men took on during the First World War. Mobilisation, the violence of war, work on the home front, the search for intimacy through a conflict that separated loved ones … affected both men and women (and children).
This exhibition shows visitors some of the many upheavals ordinary men and women faced during the First World War: its disruptive impact on work and family, the violence they both experienced, their joint contribution to the war effort, and more. It takes a comparative approach, looking at Belgium, France, Germany and Great Britain.
Abundantly illustrated, the exhibition questions the evolution of the concepts ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ throughout Belgian history. Family, school and work offer familiar backgrounds to talk about ideals, representations, norms and daily life.
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