The online panel discussions involve:
a) a contributor (or in some cases two/three) who gives an introductory presentation
b) a panel who will then discuss with the contributor the issues raised in the presentation.
The number of panel members is kept in a reasonable dimension so that there is a chance for everyone to actively participate in the discussion. The meetings are 90 minutes long (similar to the sessions planned at the Symposium). They take place as Zoom-meetings.
If you would like to present a contribution in such a panel discussion, this is how it works:
For presenters
1. Statement of interest:
- You send a short note stating your interest in presenting your contribution in an online meeting with a panel.
- Please indicate what you would like to cover in your presentation by including a short abstract.
- Include in your statement a note about the earliest date from which on you would be in a position to arrange a time/day for the online meeting.
2. You get a confirmation of receipt of your statement of interest and if suitable we arrange a provisional time/day for the online meeting. In doing so we will take into account your own time-zone, but also potential panel participants’ locations.
3. We are going to organise the panel for your online presentation by contacting potential participants. If you have wishes who you would like to invite to participate they can also be included.
4. Once the date and participants are confirmed … we go ahead.
Proposals for online panel discussions are welcome within a similar topical bandwidth as for the Reader Collective Memory-Work.
Topical directions for contributions include – but are not restricted to – questions of:
- Collectivity, leadership, facilitation in groups
- Entry modes and influence/s of institutional frameworks
- Results, conclusions and status of participants in CMW
- Ethics and trust in CMW
- Time as a factor in CMW
- Centrality of language as medium of analysis
- Authorship and ownership in CMW
- Status of experience/s in CMW
- Approaches for textanalysis
- Enhancements beyond working with written text only
- Emancipatory potential of CMW
- Therapeutic effects vs. therapy
- CMW as a method for professional reflection processes
- Topical range and restrictions for CMW
- CMW as a teaching method
- Using CMW as a method in postgrad research projects
- CMW in adult education settings outside academia
- CMW and participatory action research
- Types of knowledge generated in CMW
- Validity and transferability of results of CMW
- Data vs activism, purposes of CMW
- CMW, political movement/s and social activism
- Purity of method vs creative appropriation
- Compatibility of CMW with other approaches
This compilation is necessarily incomplete. If you consider a contribution with a focus that is not mentioned here, please do not hesitate to put your suggestion forward.
If you would like to join a discussion as panel member, please simply write an email.
Contact: info[insert at]collectivememorywork.net