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The aim of the JYU Visiting Fellow Programme 2024 is to strengthen University’s global engagement and strategic research collaboration with international collaborators. The main emphasis of the programme is in research collaboration, but the Visiting Fellows are also invited to participate in educational activities at the JYU.
Professor Lynn Abrams is acknowledged internationally as one of the most influential oral historians of the last quarter century. Her most influential book, Oral History Theory, provides a comprehensive, systematic, and accessible overview of this important field. In 2018, Abrams was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her contribution to research in the humanities. Her research has been primarily concerned with advancing understanding of the nature of gender relations, focusing on intimacy and the self and contributing to innovative methodological approaches, notably personal testimony in all its forms
Oral history, and the use of other forms of personal testimony, has a prominent place in feminist research and feminist historians have made significant contributions to the development of oral history practice and theory. Eliciting women's life narratives has been regarded as a feminist project, 'liberating' women's voices and making them count in the historical record. And women have seemingly embraced the confessional or autobiographical age, using the interview as a space to construct selves which may be more constrained in everyday life. Drawing on material gathered for her recent book Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings and the Self in Post-war Britain, Lynn Abrams will review the opportunities of oral history for the researcher and the respondent as well as considering the limitations of, or constraints on self-revelation.
