Conversations with History: Institute
of International Studies, UC Berkeley
This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations
with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public
Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.
Welcome to a Conversation with History. I'm Harry Kreisler of the Institute
of International Studies. Our guest today is Henri Peretz, who is a professor
at Paris 8 University in France.
- Background ... influence of parents ... growing up in Montmartre ... influence of teachers
... books read ... remembrances of the war ... university education ... impact
of the sixties ... changing consciousness of women
- Oral History ... theory and history ... construction of a life as object of sociology ...
immigration and society ... resistance of women to assimilation ... getting
someone to tell their story ... importance of trust ... "tact and tactics"
... teaching interviewing ... listening to the language of people ... teaching
social history ... using film -- Memoires d'immigrés
- Immigration and France ... student population ... affect on teaching ... learning to teach to immigrant
populations ... between tradition and modernity ... importance of music ...
confused identification with country of parents' origin ... identification
with the Palestinian problem ... response to French culture ... Islamic identification
- France and the World ... immigration's impact on French politics ... Le Pen ... reaction to European
Union ... French foreign policy ... globalization
- Conclusion ... advice for students ... importance of images ... rebelling against abstraction
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