Co-organized with Huizinga Institute for Cultural history

Supervisors	dr. Barbara Henkes (Groningen University), dr. Dienke Hondius (VU Amsterdam), dr. Marloes Hülsken (Radboud University), dr. Norah Karrouche (VU Amsterdam), dr. Susan Hogervorst (Open University, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Date	20 and 27 February, 27 March 2026
Location	TBA
Credits	3 ECTS

This hands-on, interactive course for PhD candidates consists of 3 sessions. Besides practicing with preparing, conducting, and reflecting on an interview, participants discuss key theoretical notions on working with oral sources.

Before 1 December 2025: Please upload your one-page motivation for taking part in this course. Make clear what your expectations are and how you connect the course to your own research.

Friday 20 February 2026, 11.00 – 15.00 (location TBA)
Interviews – oral history as historical source
What kind of knowledge does Oral History provide? And how do individual memories relate to existing memory cultures?

Friday 27 February 2025  13.30-16.30  (location TBA)
The interviewer
What makes a good interview? What impact does the specific interaction between interviewer and interviewee have on the content of an interview? How do you deal with personal boundaries during interviews? What are good interview ethics? How does the interviewee narrate, perform and present her/himself during an interview?

Friday 27 March 2026, 10.00-16.00  (location TBA)
10.00 – 12.30 Interviewing – oral history as a method
What works well while conducting an interview, and what doesn’t? What have we learnt from interviewing? In this session we listen to group presentations, share experiences and discuss how to move forward in two smaller group sessions.

13.30 – 16.00 Writing oral history
What have we learnt from interviewing? The first part of this session is dedicated to a ‘shut up and write’ session, guided by the lecturers.