On September 25, 2024, the first Oral History Seminar of the 2024/2025 academic year took place. Participants analyzed two transcriptions of interviews conducted as part of the project titled “‘Paltry Pensions’ in the Context of the Sense of Social Justice and the Goals of Pension Policy. A Multidimensional Sociological Analysis.” This project, funded by the National Science Center, Poland (grant number 2021/41/B/HS6/04416), is currently underway at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Dr. Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek. During the seminar, the analysis of the interview content was accompanied by a discussion of methodological issues. The handling of personal data of research participants in relation to archiving audio recordings of sociological research was also addressed.
The Oral History Seminars are co-organized by the Faculty of Culture and Arts at the University of Warsaw, the Qualitative Data Archive at IFiS PAN, and the Polish Oral History Association. The initiative is under the patronage of the “Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej (Wrocław Yearbook of Oral History)”. If you would like to participate in future meetings or receive more information, please contact us: seminariumoralhistory@gmail.com.