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Making Histories: Developing An Oral History Of All In Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Tim Beaumont, Reem Al-Mahmood

Alisa Percy, PhD

How might our present understandings of our professional identities, our struggles, our achievements and our capacities for agency be better understood through the memories and accounts of those who championed our emergence? What might oral accounts of the emergence of our field offer beyond what can be gathered from its existing literature? Indeed, why look at the history of a professional field at all?

This session approaches such questions by reporting on oral accounts of the emergence and evolution of ALL in Australia. As we note some of the insights and lived experiences of those engaged in the formative years …

Streetcar Stories Dvd, Michael Mizell-Nelson

Michael Mizell-Nelson

This broadcast documentary explores the cultural history of New Orleans streetcars and the US streetcar industry. Having premiered in 1995 to commemorate the 160th anniversary of New Orleans’ St. Charles Avenue streetcar, Streetcar Stories looks beneath the nostalgic veneer of New Orleans’ “moving monuments” to reveal a dynamic series of stories about the past through the experiences of the men and women who worked on the city’s street railway system from the 1910s-1970s. Interviews recorded in the early 1990s afford insight into the world of conductors and “conductorettes,” motormen and “motorettes” as well as the passengers during some of the …