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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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.
The first storytelling cafés will start in Lauchhammer in early September 2024. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.
The VOICES project team will be present at the 10th European Communication Conference ECREA in Ljubljana from September 24-27 with a contribution on “Peripheral voices: (De-)constructing narratives of marginalisation in post-industrial regions”.
The VOICES project starts on March 1, 2024. The project, with the full title “Voices from the Periphery: (De-)Constructing and Contesting Public Narratives about Post-Industrial Marginalisation”, is funded by DFG and AHRC Read more…