{"id":180,"date":"2024-05-31T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/?p=180"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:17:29","slug":"inquiring-about-everyday-life-the-oral-history-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/inquiring-about-everyday-life-the-oral-history-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiring about Everyday Life: The Oral History Project-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dalia Cidzikait\u0117 (Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Andreas Eckert and Adam Jones have noted, \u201cLife stories, recounted or written down, rank high among the source materials relevant to the historical construction of everyday life.\u201d In my presentation, I talk about the oral history project that I have started in 2018, during which I have been interviewing Lithuanian Americans, who fled West at the end of WWII as children or pre-teens. The project is a continuation of the \u201cOral History Project\u201d carried out by the Culture Council of the Lithuanian American Community in 1996-2008. The presentation focuses on the younger generation of the DPs and their recollections about everyday life. I draw attention at its repetitive character and \u201cbanal ordinariness,\u201d as well as everyday life as a ritual and social practice as seen in the stories of war refugees. I also raise question about the role and place of the history of everyday life in macrohistory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalia Cidzikait\u0117 (Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania) As Andreas Eckert and Adam Jones have noted, \u201cLife stories, recounted or written down, rank high among the source materials relevant to the historical construction of everyday life.\u201d In my presentation, I talk about the oral history project that I have started in 2018, during which I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/balthernet2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}