THE ANCS LONDON RECRUITS: THE SECRET WAR AGAINST APARTHEID

Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH

4th June 2013

When the Apartheid regime in South Africa decimated the African National Congress, its exiled leadership recruited young, white volunteers to help keep the message of resistance alive by smuggling in ANC literature. Their work remained secret for forty years until the publication in 2012 of London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid, edited by Ken Keable. This event will bring together many of these recruits to talk about what they did, why they agreed to participate, what it meant to them, how it changed them, and the role of international solidarity and collaboration in today's world.

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ORAL HISTORY SUMMER SCHOOL

Oral History Summer School was established in Hudson, New York in 2012 to train an international group of writers, social workers, radio producers, artists, teachers, human rights workers, and others to make use of Oral History in their lives and work.

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GROUNDSWELL: ORAL HISTORY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change, is an emerging and dynamic network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community organizers, and documentary artists. They use oral history and narrative in creative, effective and ethical ways to support movement building and transformative social change.

Groundswell’s mission is to build the creativity and power of social justice movements by providing mutual support, training, and resources in the practice of grassroots oral history.

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HEARING HER: NEW FEMINIST ORAL HISTORIES

11 April 2013, Sussex

This symposium will explore why and how oral history has been privileged as a methodology for capturing women activists’ experience in very different countries and contexts. We will compare interviewing, archiving, interpretation and publicising methods and identify good practice that we can share. We will also identify strategies for future oral-historical research on transnational and cross-cultural feminism.

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