Trinity College Dublin, Department of History; Fionnuala Walsh and Richard Gow

Venue: Trinity College Dublin
Time: 26 May 2016
Proposals by: 15 February 2017

In the decades since the cultural and linguistic turns in the humanities, academic and public interest in what personal experience, despite its clear subjectivity, can tell us about the past has increased significantly. The new bottom-up approach which this has engendered has been prominent in the publications, cultural events and official ceremonies marking the centenary of the Great War and its aftermath. These developments have placed particular emphasis on the study and public dissemination of ego documents, autobiographical sources that, in their many forms, give the reader a privileged insight into the self that created them. Read more … (PDF)