A major part of the project concerns oral history and memory, and especially childhood memory. I am encouraging the participants to return to their very first childhood memories and write about them, and at the same time record some part of this for use in writing their own autobiographies.

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The major part of our project is based on childhood memories by primarily focusing on “autobiographical remembering”, a narrative account of one’s past through oral history, family photographs and material culture; the intimate interplay between one’s self and one’s personal history for our understanding of what we usually call “autobiographical memory”. Building upon the above approaches, in our project we conceive of the “autobiographical memory” of the protagonists as an active construction embedded in a social weave of dialogues that are negotiated not only between them and their immediate social environment (parents, siblings, etc.), but also, equally importantly, between them and their larger cultural milieu (Germany, Persia, and Australia).