The Sussex Lectures promote our excellent research and teaching, and
provide opportunities for alumni, friends and our wider community to
celebrate the work at the University. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL
COLLABORATIVE HISTORY What are historians for? And how do we find out?
In my case I’m as likely to find out the answers to these questions
from Bananarama, Taylor Swift or One Direction Fans as I am from Eric
Hobsbawm, Stephan Collini, or Niall Ferguson.
As I’ve moved through my career, each new area of research has
taught me something different to take to the next subject, be it gay
men and the left, the counterculture, Falklands’ veterans, popular
music and politics, pedagogy, subcultural feminism, punk memory, Mass
Observation, digital HISTORY OR FANDOM. They have each taught me how
to work _with _rather than _on _historical sources. Each research
area has bled into the next as it is process rather than historical
narrative that informs my academic practice.
Each time I have worked COLLABORATIVELY WITH COLLEAGUES, documentary
makers, musicians, curators and archivists, activists and artists they
have taught me something new about how to ‘Do It Together’,
perforating the lines between different types of practice. In the
current HE context where impact is commodified, quantified and
collated in league tables and knowledge is ‘exchanged’, I will ask
what would it look like if we worked with_ _rather than for the wider
community. And what might historical research teach us about working
with the world around us?
LUCY ROBINSON, Professor in Collaborative History, School of History,
Art History and Philosophy
CHOWEN LECTURE THEATRE
BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL
University of Sussex Campus
Brighton
BN1 9PX
THIS IS A FREE, OPEN LECTURE – EVERYONE IS WELCOME, BUT NUMBERS ARE
LIMITED SO PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PLACE.
_Refreshments provided._
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