How to co-create knowledge with study participants has become a key methodological discussion in multiple fields and is especially important in the study of disability and madness. Much has been written about the interview as a co-creative process. In this workshop Michael Rembis and Marie Sépulchre will present a method for the co-creation of knowledge that happens once interviews are done, during the process of transcription and public release. This method is rooted in discussions of “shared authority” in Oral History and developed further within the interdisciplinary Communities of Care Project at the University at Buffalo (USA).
This interdisciplinary workshop will be of interest to anyone working with interviews, be it researchers, public intellectuals, activists, advocates, or archivists. It will touch upon questions such as: How should interviews be transcribed? Who decides what transcription will be achieved? How can researchers co-create transcriptions with participants? How should we think about transcriptions in the age of AI? How to make transcriptions available to the public in a way that is ethically responsible?
Michael Rembis, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of History and director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo (USA). He specializes in disability history, mad people's history, and the history of institutionalization and eugenics. He is a principal investigator on the Communities of Care Project funded by the Mellon Foundation (2024-2026).
Marie Sépulchre, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work at Lund University. Her research focuses on disability activism, disability rights and justice in higher education, and freedom as non-domination in relationships of dependency and care.
Organisers
DISTIME & UCFF (Umeå Centre for Disability Research) This event is made possible thanks to generous funding from Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond. Project: ”DISTIME Ageing with disabilities in past, present and future societies:” (MAW 2019.0003)
