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Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg
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Dr Hazel Reid, Anne Chant, Alison Fielding and
Rebecca Corfield Tee from the Centre for Career & Personal Development all
presented papers at the recent ESREA Conference of the Life History and
Biography Research Network. This year’s
conference was located at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, East
Germany. The conference theme was “Before,
Beside and After (Beyond) the Biographical Narrative” and all papers presented
were considering aspects of the process of researching life histories.
Dr Hazel Reid’s paper concerned the role of the
researcher in life history; Alison Fielding’s subject was women’s career
identity; Anne Chant’s paper was an exploration of the feminist discourse and
its voice in narrative research and Rebecca Corfield Tee presented on the
unspoken elements of research relationships.
Magdeburg is located in central Germany on the
Elbe River south-west of Berlin. Known as early as 805 AD Magdeburg was severely damaged during World
War II. One of the lasting legacies of the Second World War is the
Stolpersteine or ‘Stumbling Stones’ in Magdeberg. Outside every house where a victim or
survivor of the Holocaust lived is a Stolperstein, a brass plaque is laid in to
the pavement. There are now over 40,000
of these plaques laid in cities throughout Europe to commemorate victims of the
war in this way.
