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.

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Website Manager, IOHA Website

Job Description and Duties

The International Oral History Association (IOHA) is a not-for-profit organization seeking a contracted, part-time freelance Website Manager to start in July 2021. The Website Manager of the International Oral History Association website (www.ioha.org) will administer and manage the IOHA website content, take over the management of IOHA social media account, and serve as the primary point of contact. Working with a committee of volunteer editors, the Website Manager will help provide continuity and coordination that will directly contribute to the growth and sustainability of this collegial global network.

Role

• Paid contractor
• Point of contact for all issues concerning the IOHA website working closely with the IOHA President and Council, and the IOHA website committee
• Ex-officio member of the IOHA volunteer website committee to ensure continuity during committee transitions

Outline of Duties

General:

• Administrator of theioha.org WordPress site, working collaboratively with host platform Lightbulb Digital (LD);
• Point of contact to assist IOHA Council in communicating website needs and coordinating with LD.
• Coordinator and overseer of all content on the website, to ensure its functionality, editorial flow, its reach to a global audience, and sustainability, working with volunteer editors on website committee. This includes:
  • Coordinating with the News and Events and Journal Editors on existing content workflows
  • Managing the content for all other areas. This work would include Book Reviews, Membership Database, and Resources
  • Uploading both planned and one-off content and/or selecting and training a lead volunteer coordinator upload content to theioha.org website
  • Managing the membership database, currently in PaidMembershipsPro
  • Calendaring and managing other standard maintenance reviews of the website, e.g., running link breakage searches, troubleshooting issues encountered, working with Lightbulb Digital to monitor and plan for software and operating system upgrades.
  • Develop existing and new features of the site, in collaboration with the website committee and IOHA Council’s needs. Examples: Build an “Archives Section” of the site and develop a workflow for retiring outdated content
  • Re-develop the journal section of the site to accommodate today’s open access publishing needs and vision, and allow for increased visibility and reach across global audience
  • Manage and coordinate IOHA’s social media
  • Take a lead role in outlining IOHA’s social media policy and calendar. This could include adding or sunsetting accounts, recruiting a volunteer team, etc.

 Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated advanced skills in WordPress administration
• Demonstrated success in website-related project management
• Strong communication and editorial skills

 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or interest in oral history
• Demonstrated ability to manage bi-lingual content and interface with colleagues across languages

 Application Process

Interested and qualified applicants should submit to iohaweb@gmail.com and Sue.Anderson@unisa.edu.au:

• A cover letter that directly addresses their experience with the described roles, duties and qualifications, as well as their interest in this position
• A current CV
• A cost estimate to carry out the above work for one year, with the option of the position rolling over for a further 12 months

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We would like inform you that the Nominating Committee consists of Mark Cave markc@hnoc.org  Indira Chowdhury indira.chowdhury@gmail.com , and Alistair Thomson alistair.thomson@monash.edu

The committee invites nominations for the positions of:

President

The President will lead, oversee, and represent the Association, internationally; call and chair all Council meetings, both online and face to face; prepare the agendas; write biannual reports; appoint, encourage and oversee the work of the various Council committees and provide assistance when requested or required; work closely with biennial Conference organizing committee; solicit regional proposals for the Biennial Conference; and work to insure the growth and well-being of the Association.

Vice-Presidents

The two Vice-Presidents support the President in all matters regarding the Association; represent the Association internationally; and support development in all areas of work.  They may take on special projects or roles within the Council, depending on expertise.

Nine Regional Representatives

The nine regional representatives are elected to represent six different geographical regions, as stipulated in the Constitution. Each representative will participate actively in all Council meetings (virtual and face-to-face). They will also be asked to serve on council committees, and contribute to the IOHA website.

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Call for Papers

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After over 20 years in the making, Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih Stories from the People of the Land (by Leslie McCartney and Gwich’in Tribal Council) has been published by the University of Alberta Press (Canada).

From UA Press:  This is an invaluable compilation of historical and cultural information based on a project originally conceived by the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute to document the biographies of the oldest Gwich’in Elders in the Gwich’in Settlement Region in Canada. Through their own stories, twenty-three Gwich’in Elders from the Northwest Territories communities of Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtshik, Inuvik, and Aklavik share their joy of living and travelling on the land. Their distinctive voices speak to their values, world views, and knowledge, while McCartney assists by providing context and background on the lives of the narrators and their communities. Scholars, students, and all those interested in Canadian/Northern history, anthropology, Indigenous Studies, oral history, or cultural geography will benefit from this critical resource.

Elders Who Contributed Their Stories: Antoine Andre, Caroline Andre, Hyacinthe Andre, Annie Benoit, Pierre Benoit, Sarah Bonnetplume, Marka Bullock, Lydia Alexie Elias, Mary Martha Firth, Sarah Ann Gardlund, Elizabeth Greenland, Violet Therese Jerome, Peter Kay Sr., Mary Rose Kendi, Ruby Anne McLeod, Catherine Martha Mitchell, Eunice Mitchell, Joan Ross Nazon, Annie Moses Norbert, Alfred Semple, Sarah Simon, Ellen Catherine Vittrekwa, Jim Julius Vittrekwa.

Book details

Publication date: December 2020

Features: 24 B&W photographs, 3 maps, appendix, reading list, bibliography, index

Keywords: Indigenous teaching, first-hand account, traditional knowledge, fundamental virtues, testament of self-determination, identity, Caribou people, historical accounts, land, spirituality, cross-cultural understanding, Dene, North, oral tradition

Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, Biography: general, Indigenous Studies / Traditional Knowledge / Oral History, Indigenous teaching, first-hand account, traditional knowledge, fundamental virtues, testament of self-determination, identity, Caribou people, historical accounts, land, spirituality, cross-cultural understanding, Dene, North, oral tradition, Indigenous Authors, Biography, Anthropology, Arctic.

Price:  $99.99 (Canadian Dollars). All royalties go to Gwich’in Tribal Council.

Print Run: 1,000 

Ordering a Copy:  You can order a hard or digital copy directly from the University of Alberta Press website.

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On November 13th 2020, the new Executive Committee and Review Commission were elected at the ABHO General Assembly. Andréa Casa Nova Maia (History Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – IH-UFRJ) became the new president of the association and Ricardo Santhiago (Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP) is now the new vice-president.

The objectives and plans of ABHO for 2020 were translated from the speech of its new president, Professor Andrea Casa Nova Maia, at the virtual assembly:

“I am very honored today to became the new president of ABHO. I was doing the math here and I have been working with Oral History since 1993! I have participated in all national and regional meetings in Southeast Brazil since my undergraduate days. It’s a lot of history. And today, I think we have to recover the dimension of movement, the federative locus of oral history, including more and more colleagues from middle and elementary school , social movements, expanding more and more other areas of knowledge production, in addition to university students and memory institutions such as archives and museums. More oral history of quilombolas, indigenous, LGBTQIA+; more oral history of people affected by dams, environmental oral history of destruction, but also of construction, of social movements fighting for land and the right to the city, more oral history of refugees… more knowledge produced about lost traditions that are reinvented, oral history of the pandemic and so many other rich stories that we build together, with ethics, restitution and respect for one another! Memory as a fighting weapon!

It should also be noted that the current circumstances imposed on the world by the pandemic have directly reflected in the methodological and technical aspects of oral history. Our work has always valued the face-to-face meeting, the exchange of glances, the inter-views. It was essential to get to know our interviewees personally so that the whole gesture machine, of the senses, could be activated in a freer remember… In 2020, all that has changed. Of course, there were already surveys that used resources such as phone and video calls, but that was not the rule. Today, with the pandemic, the exception has become a necessity, a rule, especially in cases of interviews with the elderly or people at risk, as well as those conducted in isolated communities.

We need to rethink oral history methods in the face of new technologies. The research that will be publicized in the coming years will have in their footnotes the specifics of data collection, in which the pandemic will have been a determining factor. The catastrophe itself forces us to innovate: the use of video calling apps, online chat apps have become our “physical contact”; cellphones and notebooks are now our “recorders”. A PhD student under my supervision, Bruna Coelho, pondered with me recently that the gain we have is related to the financial factor, since budget, scholarship and grants have been cut and reduced due to the Brazilian economics crisis. Many researchers could not travel to do interviews and write their dissertations and thesis.. On the other hand, it is a loss since we don’t physically meet these historical subjects that have a lot to offer in their memories. We know that it is through this closer contact that we create empathy with the interviewees and enrich our work as researchers. In addition, many of them do not have access to new media and/or do not know how to use them. This technological generation is new and even teachers and students, researchers in general, have difficulties adapting.

We live in a decisive moment for our area! In a few years the oral history manuals, articles and books will be addressing the techniques that we are developing and improving at this  moment. It is up to this ABHO management to open this discussion, broadening our horizons and rethinking the next steps that will strengthen oral history in the face of such adversities. Internationalize, index our journal – this I leave to Ricardo and Bernardo to talk about. Revise the Statute to increase institutional security. Legal accounts at the regional offices as proposed here. Anyway, I think I can summarize the plate’s proposal by the words resistance and inclusion. I believe that is the goal. Thank you Lucília Neves, Juliano Spyer, José Carlos Sebe Bom Mehy, Andrea Paula dos Santos, Michel Le Ven, Yonne Grossi, Ligia Pereira Leite, Alice Beatriz Lang, Regina Beatriz, Antonio Montenegro, Marieta de Moraes, Pere Petit, Ana Carolina Maciel, Juniele Rabelo, Angela de Castro, Zeila, Célia Lucena, Olga Von Simpson, Mauro Passos, Ana Maria Mauad, Maria Paula Araújo, Marco Aurélio Santana and many other companions on this journey for the construction of ABHO in Brazil and in the world. It is!

I hope to see you all in person in 2022 on Rio de Janeiro. Oral history is part of my life. I hope I can do a good job. Thank you!!!!”

MANAGEMENT 2020- 2022
President: ANDREA CASA NOVA (UFRJ)
Vice-President RICARDO SANTHIAGO (UNIFESP)
1st Secretary: Bernardo Buarque de Holanda (FGV-SP)
2nd Secretary: Erinaldo Cavalcanti (UNIFESSPA)
Treasury: José Brito (UFAPE)
Fiscal Council:
Rodrigo de Azevedo Weimer (Public Archive of the State of Rio Grande do Sul)
Pablo Porfírio (CAP / PPG / UFPE)
Marcos Montyzuma (UFSC)
Editorial board
Glauber Cícero Ferreira Biazo (UFPA)
Juniele Rabêlo de Almeida (UFF)
Marieta de Moraes Ferreira (UFRJ / FGV)
Sara Farias (UNEB)
Viviane Trindade Borges (UDESC)
Scientific Council:
Joana Maria Pedro (UFSC); Celia Regina Pereira de Toledo Lucena (CERU-USP); Maria Paula Araújo Nascimento (UFRJ), Eurípides Antonio Funes (UFCE), Regina Coely (UNB); Regina Beatriz Guimarães Neto (UFPE); Idelma Santiago da Silva (UNIFESSPA); Angela de Castro Gomes (UFF); Pere Petit (UFPA); Carla Simone Rodeghero (UFRGS)

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Call for papers. Dossier: Oral History and Aging

The journal História Oral of the Brazilian Association of Oral History (ABHO) invites interested authors to submit articles for the Oral History and Aging dossier. This volume contemplates in its proposal, from the interface “social memory and life trajectories,” studies on the aging processes using the oral history methodology. It seeks to gather texts that contribute to the public debate on the theme – scientific, social, political, historical and cultural implications – when considering the changes that have occurred in the course of life that characterize the contemporary experience. Concern with aging and improvement of the quality of life in Brazilian society changes the sensitivity invested in old age and the reflection for recognizing the plurality of experiences.

Submission deadline: Extended to May 15, 2021

Dossier publication: 1st semester of 2021

Dossier organization:

PhD Prof. Juniele Rabêlo de Almeida – UFF

PhD Prof. Lívia Morais Garcia Lima – Unisal/EACH-USP

* Submissions are also open for off-theme articles, as well as interviews, reviews and translations.

http://revista.historiaoral.org.br/index.php?journal=rho

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SINGAPORE CONFERENCE DEFERRED

In accordance with the WHO declaration of the virus as a world-wide pandemic, after much review and council discussion, the International Oral History Association is forced to postpone our Biennial Conference scheduled for 22-26 June 2020 in Singapore to 2021.  This is in accordance with our Constitution which allows the Conference to be held every two to three years.  It is now proposed to reassess the situation over the next months to determine when the Conference may be rescheduled safely.

Our thanks go to Conference organizers, speakers and all of those involved in the Conference for their patience during these challenging times.

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Please visit the new Association of Oral History Other Memories that has been in the making for ten years. www.otrasmemorias.com.ar

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 The Annual General Meeting of the International Oral History Association will be held at the XXI Biennial Conference to be held in Singapore from 22-26 June 2020.  Please see the Conference programme for timing:  https://www.ioha2020.sg/programme/programme/.

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