In mid-October, Karina Hoření presented her work at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association in Portland, Oregon. This year’s conference theme, “Landscapes of Memory,” explored how people shape and develop relationships with the land, both real and imagined.
Karina’s presentation examined how the first generation of post-war newcomers to the Czech borderlands learned to navigate a region that was still unfamiliar to them, and how they interpreted its landscape through material traces left by the previous German-speaking population.
The international conference provided an opportunity to share our research and engage in dialogue with scholars working on case studies from different geographical contexts. Karina’s panel brought together researchers working with material from Palestine, Ghana, and the United States. Despite their different geographical contexts, their contributions were connected by shared questions of belonging and place-making.
