First VOICES project meeting
The VOICES consortium met for the first time on 2-4 March 2025. The meeting started with a one-day workshop at the premises of Helle Panke e.V. in Berlin. This was followed by a city tour of Eisenhüttenstadt.
Culture of Memory and Structural Change: Research Trip to Lusatia with Students from the University of Greifswald
How do the people of Lauchhammer remember the industrial age and its decline? With this question in mind, students from the University of Greifswald travelled to Lusatia on 21 and 22 February 2025. This was the seventh storytelling café organised in the town as Read more…
The UK VOICES Team at the Political Studies Association Media Politics Group Conference in Birmingham
Prof. Lilleker was invited to be keynote speaker and drew on some of the data from the Rotherham storytelling cafes as well as responses to images posted to commemorate Silverwood colliery, a pit in the heart of Maltby near Rotherham. The talk centred on Read more…
Storytelling Cafés about Industrial Transformation in Eisenhüttenstadt
Call for Participation: Share Your Story! We warmly invite the residents of Eisenhüttenstadt to take part in our research project. We are looking for individuals born before 1970 who experienced the process of deindustrialization in the region and are willing to share their personal Read more…
New publication: Grit Lemke / Andy Räder (eds.): Sorbian Film Landscapes. Serbske filmowe krajiny, Berlin: Bertz + Fischer 2024
In April 2024 the publication ‘Sorbische Filmlandschaften. Serbske filmowe krajiny’ was published by our project member Andy Räder in collaboration with the author and filmmaker Grit Lemke. The book was produced in cooperation with the Sorbian Institute and the DEFA Foundation and highlights the Read more…
A new article by James Morrison in the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies is published
Morrison, J. (2024) ‘Abusing the unprotected ‘poor’: The prevalence of povertyist stigma and hate speech on unmoderated newspaper comment threads’, Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, 13(2), pp.237-257. Project Co-investigator Dr James Morrison has published a new article in the Journal of Applied Read more…
New publication: “Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak?” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
A timely new research anthology, co-edited by project member Dr James Morrison (in cooperation with Professor Sarah Pedersen of Robert-Gordon University, Aberdeen), was published earlier this month. Entitled Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak? (Palgrave Macmillan), the book examines the marginalisation Read more…
Storytelling cafés in Rotherham
The UK research team started collecting contributions from members of the public to the “Voices from the Periphery” project with a site visit to Rotherham. From 23 to 25 October, they ran three discussion groups with locals who have experienced industrial decline in Rotherham Read more…
Former miners wanted
We are looking for former Lauchhammer miners for our first series of storytelling cafés: The Storytelling Cafés will take place at the Traditionsverein in Lauchhammer. We look forward to a lively participation.
Storytelling cafés in Lauchhammer
The first storytelling cafés will start in Lauchhammer in early September 2024. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.
