The witness seminar: A research note

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Nicholls, Emily Jay. 2022. The witness seminar: A research note. Qualitative Research, 22(1), pp. 166-173. ISSN 1468-7941 [Article]

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120974153

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The ‘witness seminar’ as a method for recording contemporary histories is neither well known nor widely employed. By inviting a number of people who were involved in a particular historical event to come together and tell this history collectively, the method enables the production of rich and compelling accounts of contemporary histories. In this article, I introduce the method and the procedures followed in four witness seminars that I organised and co-convened on various topics relating to HIV. I then go on to reflect on the value of this method and how the connections between seminar participants both gave shape to the narrative produced and were also telling of the collaborative history of HIV.

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120974153

Additional Information:

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement numbers: Uses of the Past – 649307.

Keywords:

contemporary histories, HIV/AIDS, witness seminar, oral history, event

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

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