The 2020 IOHA conference scheduled to be held in Singapore was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference committee is now planning a virtual conference which will hopefully occur in the next few months. Confirmation of dates will be coming soon this website as well as other information about the virtual conference.

The post IOHA 2021 Virtual Conference appeared first on International Oral History Association.

Call for Papers

The post Call for Papers – European Social Science History Conference 2023 appeared first on International Oral History Association.

OHA Biennial Conference 2021

Oral History Tasmania and Oral History Australia has  released a Call for Presentations for the upcoming OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 14-16 October 2021.

The conference theme is ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Challenges and Opportunities’.

While the plan is to meet in solidarity and optimism for the biennial conference in Tasmania in 2021, if that proves to be impossible due to COVID-19 restrictions the conference will be run online.

The deadline for presentation proposals is 1 March 2021.

For a copy of the full Call for Presentations go to the Oral History Australia website at www.oralhistoryaustralia.org.au.

The post Oral History Tasmania and Oral History Australia OHA Biennial Conference 2021 appeared first on International Oral History Association.

2019 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference

10-13 October 2019

State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Conference report

With the theme of ‘Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories’, the 2019 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference sought to tackle some of the challenges facing oral historians in their work today.

Chief amongst the challenges identified were those involving oral history and indigenous communities, but the conference also canvassed issues such as dealing with interviewees with dementia, confronting family myths, intersubjective interview dynamics and remembering painful events.

Oral History Australia (OHA) and Oral History Queensland jointly presented the conference in partnership with the State Library of Queensland from 10-13 October 2019 coinciding with both the Year of Indigenous Languages and the 40^th anniversary year of OHA.

The location, the State Library of Queensland, in the north-east State capital of Brisbane was on Yuggera Country. The venue and surrounds by the Brisbane River nicely complemented the conference theme bringing together relevant aspects of indigenous and colonial history, the importance of place and community, new technology and the vital role of museums and archives in the future of oral history.

The conference opened with a Welcome to Country by Gaja Kerry Charlton followed by a keynote address from Canadian academic Dr Katrina Srigley who spoke of her work as a non-indigenous historian working with the Nipissing First Nation in Northern Ontario.

In both the opening and closing plenaries, delegates heard of the need for oral history practitioners to better appreciate the ethical issues involved in working with indigenous communities and to properly acknowledge the knowledge-holders sharing their stories.

International delegates included Paul Sandul, Lisa Bentley and Linda Reynolds from the United States who presented some fascinating papers on recording the memories of a range of minority groups –  atheists and agnostics, moonshine producers and African Americans – in their conservative, home region of East Texas. New Zealand delegate Elisapeci Samanunu Waquanivala notably led a Fijian farewell song to end the conference.

In addition to the plenaries and concurrent sessions, the conference featured workshops on podcasting and interpreting memories, an Oral Histories of the Future forum, lightning presentations and several performances based on historical stories. There were also two excursions – one to North Stradbroke Island and the other featuring an interpretive bus trip to Logan City – and a presentation to former OHA national president Rosemary Block – the 2019 recipient of the OHA Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History.

As part of its commitment to the environment and local communities Oral History Queensland provided conference bags made from recycled fabrics and employed a local social enterprise, Eritrean Australian Women and Family Support Network, to cater for the welcome function at the Queensland Maritime Museum.

The next OHA Biennial Conference will be held in Launceston, Tasmania, in 2021. The next International Oral History Association Conference is scheduled for 22-26 June 2020 in Singapore.

Conference report and photo by Judy Hughes

The post 2019 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference appeared first on International Oral History Association.

 Vth INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY CONFERENCE,

GREEK ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION

RETHYMNON, 29-31 MAY 2020

Work is a crucial feature of most people’s lives. Labour history based on the living memory of working people has marked the oral history movement since the 1970s, recovering in particular the voices of industrial workers. Since the end of the 1980s, however, the transition to the post-industrial era has thoroughly disrupted – over the lifespan of one generation – both the experience of work and the horizon of expectations of working people. Closures or relocations of firms, the deregulation of labour relations, de-skilling, mass layoffs and the generalization of precarity has had a profound impact on the working lives of men and women, although not always in similar ways. On the other hand, these developments have also transformed the way in which the notion of “work” is conceptualized. Professional identities and the connections between work experiences and other aspects of people’s lives are influenced in multiple ways by these processes.

In post-war Greece work relations were transformed through urbanization, mass employment of women and – since the 1990s – by the replacement of local workers by immigrants, especially in agriculture, fishery and the building sector. The recent economic crisis deepened the consequences of de-industrialization, globalization and the financialization of the economy, changing people’s lives at staggering speed. Those parts of the planet belonging to the so-called “Global South”, including Greece, provide a promising field to study these changes.

The conference intends to encourage the use of oral history and biographical research in order to explore the ruptures, the “biographical turns” and the transformations of identities and subjectivities voiced in the life stories of people in and out of work. In this sense, oral history, as a field of interdisciplinary and critical reflections, may bring an important contribution to the renewal of labour history. The conference welcomes proposals which use recorded life stories to document and understand the transformations of working lives over the last fifty years. Suggested topics may include:

• Changes in the organization of work: forms of labour, social relations and work culture
• Work-related precariousness and subjectivity
• Work, family and community
• Child labour
• Gendered, class and ethnic dimensions of work
• The working body and attitudes to risk
• Trade unions and workers’ movements
• The experience of job loss and unemployment
• Changes in the working conditions and the professional careers of teachers
• Work and migration
• Work volunteering and apprenticeships
• The use of oral testimony in public representations of work

The conference languages are Greek and English. Proposals should include your name and affiliation, the title of your paper and an abstract of 200-250 words. Please clarify in which way your proposal is based on oral sources. The proposal should be sent to kfagogenis@gmail.com and rvboes@gmail.com by February 10, 2020. You will be informed on the decisions reached by the Scientific Committee by 31 March 2020.

The conference is organized by the Greek Oral History Association and hosted by the Sociology Department of the University of Crete.

Organizing Committee

Antonis Antoniou, University of Thessaly

Vassilis Dalkavoukis, Democritus University of Thrace

Eleni Kallimopoulou, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Maria Karastergiou, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Maria Kavala, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Giorgios Tsiolis, University of Crete

Riki Van Boeschoten, University of Thessaly

Kostas Fagogenis, University of Crete

Scientific Committee

Eleni Fournaraki, University of Crete

Pothiti Hantzaroula, University of the Aegean

Christina Karakioulafi, University of Crete

Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Athens

Dimitra Lambropoulou, Capodistrian University of Athens

Irini Siouti, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt

Manos Spyridakis, University of the Peloponnese

Aris Tsantiropoulos, University of Crete

Riki Van Boeschoten, University of Thessaly

Yiannis Zaimakis, University of Crete

The post Call For Proposals: Vth International Oral History Conference, Greek Oral History Association Rethymnon, 29-31 May 2020 appeared first on International Oral History Association.

The call for papers for the XXI IOHA Conference in Singapore has been extended to 30 September, 2019.

The post IOHA Call for Papers Extension appeared first on International Oral History Association.

Registrations are now open for the 2019 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference to be held in Brisbane from 10 to 13 October 2019.

Book now to access early bird rates. Standard ticketing begins on 1 August 2019.

The four-day event features:

• pre-conference workshops and the welcome reception on Thursday 10 October
• two-days of conference presentations and panels and the conference dinner – Friday and Saturday, 11-12 October
• post-conference excursions in and around Brisbane on Sunday 13 October.

Oral History Australia and Oral History Queensland are presenting the conference in partnership with the State Library of Queensland.

The theme is ‘Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories’. A draft program is now available.

For bookings and further information:

• Make a booking – Go to our registration page on Eventbrite.
• Find out more about the types of tickets available and the registration process- Go to our Registration information page.
• View the draft program – From our Conference program page.
• Bookmark – The Conference home pagefor further reference.
• Email – send inquiries to oralhistoryqld@gmail.com.

The post 2019 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference appeared first on International Oral History Association.

The website for the IOHA 2020 conference in Singapore has now been launched. Please visit www.ioha2020.sg for more information.

The post IOHA 2020 Conference Website Launched appeared first on International Oral History Association.

The XXI IOHA Conference:
Harmony and Disharmony: Bringing Together Many Voices
Singapore, 22–26 Jun 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The International Oral History Association (IOHA) is pleased to announce the call for papers and workshop proposals for the next conference to be held in Singapore from 22 to 26 June 2020. The conference is organised by the National Archives of Singapore, an institution of the National Library Board, Singapore.

The theme of the XXI IOHA Conference is Harmony and Disharmony: Bringing Together Many Voices.

1. Call for Papers

At the core of oral history is a desire for a more complex and nuanced understanding of the world around us. While we value each oral account as unique, personal and subjective, bringing together many voices – whether in agreement or disagreement – allows greater meaning to be gleaned, refined and accumulated. Oral history teaches us to be considerate and empathetic to different voices and perspectives. What does this mean in the context of oral history taking root in more places and different cultures around the world? Where it is used in more and different contexts and disciplines? Aided and even led by changing technologies? Presented in different forms and bearing multiple uses? This conference invites papers which shed light on the growing diversity, multidimensionality and interdisciplinary applications of oral history.

As the IOHA conference enters Southeast Asia for the first time, the theme is also an invitation for reflection by the international oral history community to consider how we can help and support one another through friendships, networks and alliances.

We look forward to receiving abstracts on the following themes:

• Oral history, culture and community
• Oral history, ethics and the law
• Oral history and the arts
• Oral history and technology
• Oral history and politics
• Oral history and business
• Oral history and sports
• Oral history and conflict
• Oral history and indigenous communities
• Inter- and cross-disciplinary applications of oral history (journalism, therapy, etc.)
• Comparative studies of oral history

The official language of the congress is English, but presentations in Spanish will also be welcomed.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You can propose either 1) a paper, 2) a poster, or 3) an audio-visual presentation. Please read the instructions below before making a proposal and submitting your abstract.

Please note that each individual may only submit one solo-authored paper, poster or audio-visual presentation proposal, but additional co-authored proposals can also be submitted. If more than one solo-authored paper is received by the same author, the last submitted proposal will be considered for acceptance.

We would appreciate it if Spanish submissions could come with an English translation.

To propose a paper or a poster: 

Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a biography of no more than 50 words via email to NLB_IOHA2020@nlb.gov.sg. Select the type of proposal (a paper or a poster) and select one of the themes on the provided list for the scheduling of your proposal. Please also indicate the language of your proposal presentation (English or Spanish) and provide 3-5 keywords related to your proposal presentation.

To propose an audio-visual presentation:

Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a biography of no more than 50 words via email to NLB_IOHA2020@nlb.gov.sg. Select one of the themes on the provided list for the scheduling of your audio-visual presentation. Please provide 3-5 keywords related to your audio-visual presentation. It is important that you provide details of both the content and format of your work (explain clearly what type it is, and how it should be screened) and any further important information concerning technical requirements. If the audio-visual presentation is not in English, please make sure that it is subtitled.

Instructions on how to submit your audio-visual materials will be provided later.

The deadline for all proposals is 31 August 2019. A notification regarding your submission will be sent in November 2019.

1. Call for Workshop Proposals

IOHA 2020 will be hosting a series of workshops on 22 June 2020 and is inviting workshop proposals from the international community. This will be a rare opportunity to facilitate learning and the exchange of ideas and information among international participants.

Full-day or half-day workshops may address specific methodological issues or emerging trends.

We invite individuals or teams interested in conducting such a workshop to submit proposals. Please include the following in your submission to NLB_IOHA2020@nlb.gov.sg:

• Workshop title
• Objective and description (max. 300 words)
• Target audience and expected size
• Names, contact information and brief biographies (max. 50 words each) of the workshop facilitators
• Details on where this workshop was previously conducted (if applicable)
• Technical requirements, including space, audio/visual, computer and communication needs

Registration

All paper presenters (including posters and audio-visual presentations) and workshop facilitators must also register for IOHA 2020. Registration and payment details will be available on the conference website www.ioha2020.sg in late 2019. Please check the website for further information.

If you have any questions concerning the call for papers and workshop proposals, please email: NLB_IOHA2020@nlb.gov.sg.

The conference website will be launched in July 2019 at www.ioha2020.sg

The post Call for Papers – XXI IOHA Conference – Singapore – 22-26 June 2020 appeared first on International Oral History Association.

The post Mark the date for the IOHA XXI Conference appeared first on International Oral History Association.