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Upcoming events
June 2025
06junAll Day07OHS annual conference 2025Whose Voices?
Event Details
The Oral History Society, United Kingdom, in partnership with the Scottish Oral History Centre, will hold its 2025 annual conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 6-7 June 2025.The
Event Details
The Oral History Society, United Kingdom, in partnership with the Scottish Oral History Centre, will hold its 2025 annual conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 6-7 June 2025.
The theme is ‘Whose Voices?‘.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Prof Lynn Abrams and plenary discussions on:
- Whose Voices – views from across the generations in oral history
- Whose Voices are we collecting now? Challenges, opportunities and silences.
To access the Call for Papers (deadline extended to 23 January 2025) and further information about the conference go to: https://www.ohs.org.uk/ohs-annual-conference-2025/.
Time
6 (Friday) June, 12{12Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100} 00{06006} - 7 (Saturday) June, 11{11Sat, 07 Jun 2025 23:59:59 +0100} 59{06596} (All Day)(GMT+01:00)
Location
University of Strathclyde
Organizer
07jun9:30 am3:30 pmIntroductory Oral History Training1-Day Workshop
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who are working with oral history archives, and would like an insight into the interviewing side of things.
The morning session focuses on oral history ethics, while the afternoon session is all about the practicalities of interviewing. Participants will have the opportunity to conduct a practice interview.
About the trainers:
Alison Atkinson-Phillips is the president of Oral History WA and vice president of Oral History Australia. Alison is an experienced oral historian and the author of Survivor Memorials: Remembering Trauma and Loss in Contemporary Australia, based on her oral history work with memory activists.
Janet Baldwin has 21 years of experience in oral history: teaching, interviewing, transcribing and managing projects. Her clients include: State Library WA, WA Shires and Councils, Perth Observatory, Spiritualist women. Janet is the author of: Telescopes, Timekeeping and Teabag Jigglers and Out and About with Artemis at Perth Observatory, both based on oral history.
Cate Pattison has worked as a social and oral historian since 2013 for a range of public and private clients, presenting and publishing her work at national and international Oral History conferences and journals. Cate’s previous career was in media and market research, and she now also works as a heritage officer for the Royal Agricultural Society. Forthcoming publication: Gearing up the Groupies: The State Implement Works and Group Settlement in Western Australia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Time
7 (Saturday) June, 9{09Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0800} 30{06306} 9:30am - 3:30pm(GMT+08:00)
Location
State Library of Western Australia
25 Francis St, Perth WA 6000
30junAll Day03jul2025 AHA ConferenceLooking up
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.The AHA 2025
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The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.
The AHA 2025 annual conference will chaired by Ben Jones (CQU) and Koen Stapelbroek (JCU).
For more information go to the conference website – https://www.jcu.edu.au/events/2025/june/australian-historical-association-conference.
Time
30 (Monday) June, 12{12Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1000} 00{06006} - 3 (Thursday) July, 11{11Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:59:59 +1000} 59{07597} (All Day)(GMT+10:00)
July 2025
30junAll Day03jul2025 AHA ConferenceLooking up
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.The AHA 2025
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.
The AHA 2025 annual conference will chaired by Ben Jones (CQU) and Koen Stapelbroek (JCU).
For more information go to the conference website – https://www.jcu.edu.au/events/2025/june/australian-historical-association-conference.
Time
30 (Monday) June, 12{12Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1000} 00{06006} - 3 (Thursday) July, 11{11Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:59:59 +1000} 59{07597} (All Day)(GMT+10:00)
August 2025
22augAll DayNew date! Graduate Oral History IntensiveOHV 4-day programTRAINING
Event Details
Four-day online course, 22-23 August and 5-6 September 2025, offered by Oral History Victoria.Taught by Carla Pascoe Leahy, Sarah Rood and Alistair Thomson (for trainer profiles – see https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-training-graduate-oral-history-intensive)Are
Event Details
Four-day online course, 22-23 August and 5-6 September 2025, offered by Oral History Victoria.
Taught by Carla Pascoe Leahy, Sarah Rood and Alistair Thomson (for trainer profiles – see https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-training-graduate-oral-history-intensive)
Are you a PhD, Masters or Honours student, or a post-doc, about to start a research project using oral history – and need training to get you on the right track? Perhaps you’ve
already started a graduate oral history project and want advice and support? You may be a historian, or you work in another social science or humanities discipline that uses life story interviews. This four-day, online training course could be just what you need.
In May 2025, three of Australia’s leading oral historians, in partnership with Oral History Victoria, are teaching this popular oral history intensive course aimed at university
research students. We will teach you how to plan an oral history project and apply for ethics approval. You’ll learn how to create excellent interviews and document the
recordings for use in research. We’ll explore approaches to analysing interviews and interpreting memories. And we’ll consider how to write a thesis using oral history and to
create other types of oral history productions.
You will be active participants in the teaching and learning: reading a selection of key texts, bringing examples and issues from you own research, workshopping issues with the group, conducting practice interviews, discussing interview extracts from each participant, and developing a peer support group of graduate oral history researchers from around Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
Each day school will be taught online via Zoom, from 9.30am-4pm Australian Eastern Standard time. The course will be limited to 18 participants.
Feedback from participants in this course in 2024:
“Many thanks for a terrific 4 days from the three of you from OHV … so valuable in redirecting and redrafting my research project. Initially I had doubts about the full value of a
4 day zoom meet with 14 or 17 post grads, but it exceeded all expectations.”
“It was terrific to have access to such skilled teachers/facilitators and to come together with other graduate students and to receive such a vast array of helpful resources.”
“I was very happy with the course – expert presenters who were very respectful of/responsive to the participants, great management with everything running on time, different formats to maintain interest, relevant/engaging activities especially listening to everyone’s interview extracts.”
“Al, Carla and Sarah, you made such a warm and welcoming environment! You were all engaging, and passionate and held space for everyone’s opinions and thoughts. Thank you!”
Course outline
Day 1 Friday 22 August – Planning Your Oral History Project & Seeking Ethics Approval
Day 2 Saturday 23 August – Creating & Documenting Oral History Interviews
(fortnight break while participants conduct practice interviews)
Day 3 Friday 5 September – Interpreting Oral Histories
Day 4 Saturday6 September – Making (Oral) Histories in Writing and other Media
Course fees:
$500 for Oral History Victoria and Oral History Australia members
$750 non-members
Closing date for registration – Friday 8 August.
We anticipate participants will draw on funds from their own or departmental graduate research budgets. For students without access to research funds, bursaries might be available from state and territory oral history associations.
OHV is offering up to four bursaries to assist with the cost of registering for this training for students unable to source support from their academic institution. For further details of the terms and conditions and the application form, please see the Graduate Training Programme Student Bursary Policy and Selection Criteria. Bursary Applications must be submitted by midnight on the 1st August, 2025.
Download the form here.
Registration via https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-training-graduate-oral-history-intensive
Contact: for further information and to discuss the course, please contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu
Virtual Event Details
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Time
22 (Friday) August, 12{12Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +1000} 00{08008} All Day(GMT+10:00)
Organizer
30aug9:30 am3:30 pmIntroductory Oral History Training1-Day Workshop
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who are working with oral history archives, and would like an insight into the interviewing side of things.
The morning session focuses on oral history ethics, while the afternoon session is all about the practicalities of interviewing. Participants will have the opportunity to conduct a practice interview.
About the trainers:
Alison Atkinson-Phillips is the president of Oral History WA and vice president of Oral History Australia. Alison is an experienced oral historian and the author of Survivor Memorials: Remembering Trauma and Loss in Contemporary Australia, based on her oral history work with memory activists.
Janet Baldwin has 21 years of experience in oral history: teaching, interviewing, transcribing and managing projects. Her clients include: State Library WA, WA Shires and Councils, Perth Observatory, Spiritualist women. Janet is the author of: Telescopes, Timekeeping and Teabag Jigglers and Out and About with Artemis at Perth Observatory, both based on oral history.
Cate Pattison has worked as a social and oral historian since 2013 for a range of public and private clients, presenting and publishing her work at national and international Oral History conferences and journals. Cate’s previous career was in media and market research, and she now also works as a heritage officer for the Royal Agricultural Society. Forthcoming publication: Gearing up the Groupies: The State Implement Works and Group Settlement in Western Australia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Time
30 (Saturday) August, 9{09Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:30:00 +0800} 30{08308} 9:30am - 3:30pm(GMT+08:00)
Location
State Library of Western Australia
25 Francis St, Perth WA 6000
September 2025
16sepAll Day19IOHA Conference 2025Re-Thinking Oral History
Event Details
The 23rd International Oral History Association (IOHA) Conference is scheduled for Kraków, Poland from 16-19 September 2025.The theme of the conference is Re-Thinking Oral History.Biennial conferences of the International Oral
Event Details
The 23rd International Oral History Association (IOHA) Conference is scheduled for Kraków, Poland from 16-19 September 2025.
The theme of the conference is Re-Thinking Oral History.
Biennial conferences of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) allow for reviewing the global conditions and problems of oral history, regardless of the actual conference theme. This time, however, the organizers of the 23rd IOHA Conference call on oral historians worldwide to consciously rethink the idea and practice of their discipline.
Oral history today faces both old and new challenges with long-lasting and unpredictable consequences: the crisis of liberal democracy, growing tensions in international politics, climate change with its devastating outcomes on human life, increasing inequalities, wars, and mass migrations. All of the foregoing not only affect the conditions in which oral history is made, but also compels us to rethink its very aim. For Central and Eastern Europe, the full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine beginning in February 2022 and its consequences are an especially painful reminder of that. Though oral history was, and still is a part of history, it has always been conscious of the responsibility (oral) history has for the current society. Aware of that mission, we encourage the global oral history community to return to the core questions of our practice: what kind of histories should we tell and pass on to the current and future generation
Find out more about the conference at: https://ioha2025.conference.pl/.
See the Call for Papers – https://ioha2025.conference.pl/en/call-for-papers. The deadline for proposal submissions was 31 August 2024.
Time
16 (Tuesday) September, 12{12Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200} 00{09009} - 19 (Friday) September, 11{11Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:59:59 +0200} 59{09599} (All Day)(GMT+02:00)
Location
Kraków
Past events
October 2024
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community?
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.
This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.
After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.
Feedback from participants on this course 2020-2022
‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’
‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’
‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!
‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’
‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’
‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’
Tickets
To purchase your ticket, visit our Humanitix listing…
Click Here to Purchase Tickets
Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2024.
Trainer profiles
Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.
Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is currently President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017). Al is currently leading a research project about the history of fathering in Australia and co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu
Training program format
Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays.
On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.
Time
12 (Saturday) October, 9{09Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +1100} 30{103010} 9:30am - 4:00pm(GMT+11:00)
17octAll Day18Accredited TrainingTwo-day Workshop
Time
17 (Thursday) October, 12{12Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0800} 00{100010} - 18 (Friday) October, 11{11Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:59:59 +0800} 59{105910} (All Day)(GMT+08:00)
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community?
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.
This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.
After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.
Feedback from participants on this course 2020-2022
‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’
‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’
‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!
‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’
‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’
‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’
Tickets
To purchase your ticket, visit our Humanitix listing…
Click Here to Purchase Tickets
Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2024.
Trainer profiles
Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.
Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is currently President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017). Al is currently leading a research project about the history of fathering in Australia and co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu
Training program format
Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays.
On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.
Time
19 (Saturday) October, 9{09Sat, 19 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +1100} 30{103010} 9:30am - 4:00pm(GMT+11:00)
19oct1:00 pm2:30 pmOHWA Annual General Meeting
Time
19 (Saturday) October, 1{01Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0800} 00{100010} 1:00pm - 2:30pm(GMT+08:00)
Location
State Library of WA
25 Francis Street
30octAll Day02novOHA (United States) Annual MeetingOral History: Bridging Past, Present and Future
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 30 October to 2 November 2024 in Cincinatti, Ohio, United States.The annual meeting attracts a broad range of
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 30 October to 2 November 2024 in Cincinatti, Ohio, United States.
The annual meeting attracts a broad range of people and features the best work in the field. The meeting enables students and both emerging and established scholars to network and learn valuable skills. The theme for 2024 is Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future.
The Call for Proposals is available at: https://oralhistory.org/2024-call-for-proposals/. The Submission Portal will open in December 2023.
Find out more:
Time
30 (Wednesday) October, 12{12Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400} 00{100010} - 2 (Saturday) November, 11{11Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:59:59 -0400} 59{115911} (All Day)(GMT-04:00)
Location
Hyatt Regency
Organizer
November 2024
30octAll Day02novOHA (United States) Annual MeetingOral History: Bridging Past, Present and Future
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 30 October to 2 November 2024 in Cincinatti, Ohio, United States.The annual meeting attracts a broad range of
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 30 October to 2 November 2024 in Cincinatti, Ohio, United States.
The annual meeting attracts a broad range of people and features the best work in the field. The meeting enables students and both emerging and established scholars to network and learn valuable skills. The theme for 2024 is Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future.
The Call for Proposals is available at: https://oralhistory.org/2024-call-for-proposals/. The Submission Portal will open in December 2023.
Find out more:
Time
30 (Wednesday) October, 12{12Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400} 00{100010} - 2 (Saturday) November, 11{11Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:59:59 -0400} 59{115911} (All Day)(GMT-04:00)
Location
Hyatt Regency
Organizer
15novAll Day17NOHANZ Conference 2024Working Together
Event Details
The National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) will hold its biennial conference from 15-17 November 2024 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The theme of the conference is ‘Working Together’.Abstracts
Event Details
The National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) will hold its biennial conference from 15-17 November 2024 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The theme of the conference is ‘Working Together’.
Abstracts should be submitted by 31 March 2024. Go to the Call for Papers.
Go to the NOHANZ website – https://www.oralhistory.org.nz/index.php/conferences-pastpresent/.
Time
15 (Friday) November, 12{12Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1300} 00{110011} - 17 (Sunday) November, 11{11Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:59:59 +1300} 59{115911} (All Day)(GMT+13:00)
21novAll Day242024 OHA Biennial ConferenceThe Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities
Event Details
Oral History Australia and Oral History Victoria will present the 2024 OHA Biennial Conference in the the historic and culturally-rich city of Naarm/Melbourne.About the conferenceOur conference theme ‘The Power
Event Details
Oral History Australia and Oral History Victoria will present the 2024 OHA Biennial Conference in the the historic and culturally-rich city of Naarm/Melbourne.
About the conference
Our conference theme ‘The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities’ taps into the many powerful features of oral history practice including the potential to evoke powerful emotions, bring forth new voices and engage new audiences through multimedia.
Our conference welcomes participants who use oral history in their work across the many fields and disciplines that contribute to community, professional and academic histories. We welcome presenters from Victoria and around Australia, from across the Tasman and throughout the oral history world, from First Nations and culturally diverse backgrounds. We seek to showcase individual presentations, workshops, performances, roundtables, and thematic panels.
Keynote speaker
Our keynote speakers include the legendary Alessandro Portelli. Over more than 50 years, Alessandro has been one of the most influential oral historians in the world. His keynote is titled ‘Bread and Labor: The Lost and Found Humanity of Giuseppe Di Porto, Auschswitz Survivor. A twice-told tale.’.
Find out more on our conference website – https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-conference-2024/.
Time
21 (Thursday) November, 12{12Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1100} 00{110011} - 24 (Sunday) November, 11{11Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:59:59 +1100} 59{115911} (All Day)(GMT+11:00)
Location
Trinity College, University of Melbourne
February 2025
08feb(feb 8)9:00 am09(feb 9)5:00 pmAccredited Oral History TrainingTWO-DAY WORKSHOP
Event Details
Australia’s only accredited oral history training, delivered by Dr Elaine Rabbit. The cost is $395 inc GST. Oral History WA members discount price: $360 inc GST.
Event Details
Australia’s only accredited oral history training, delivered by Dr Elaine Rabbit. The cost is $395 inc GST. Oral History WA members discount price: $360 inc GST.
Time
8 (Saturday) February, 9{09Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0800} 00{02002} 9:00am - 9 (Sunday) February, 5{05Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0800} 00{02002} 5:00pm(GMT+08:00)
March 2025
15marAll DayTeaching Oral History: Training the trainersAdvanced workshop
Event Details
Advanced workshopAre you an experienced oral historian in Australia, New Zealand or Southeast Asia who would like to learn how to teach oral history in community, academic or professional contexts?
Event Details
Advanced workshop
Are you an experienced oral historian in Australia, New Zealand or Southeast Asia who would like to learn how to teach oral history in community, academic or professional contexts? This OHV online Advanced Workshop by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers will consider: issues in interactive teaching and learning; approaches to teaching online and face to face; the aims and varieties of oral history; teaching interviewing; teaching the documentation of interviews; and teaching oral history relationships and ethics (the course will not focus on teaching interpretation of interviews).
Participants in this advanced workshop must have extensive oral history experience. Victorian participants who successfully complete this course, and who then shadow the teaching of at least one other OHV training course, will be eligible to teach OHV training courses. Participants from other states and countries will be equipped to teach oral history beginner courses.
PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK ON THIS COURSE IN 2019 AND 2023:
“Incredibly useful workshop. Enjoyed the day immensely! Terrific facilitators, wonderful cohort.”
“Great session – really made it seem very possible to run a training session with oral history beginners. Got some great tips on group management and facilitation which will be really helpful.”
“Truly honest, open, constructive, value-adding workshop.”
“Appreciated how watchful Al and Sarah were of timing and content. A great range of activities that facilitated learning and understanding.”
TRAINER PROFILES
Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for more than 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. The interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah. In recent years Sarah’s focus has also turned to the way story gathering and storytelling can be applied to drive change. Contact: sjrood@waybackwhen.com.au
Alistair Thomson, Emeritus Professor of History and national award-winning teacher, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is immediate past President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries(2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017) and Fathering: An Australian History (2025). Al is currently co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu
NOTE: Tickets are made first available to Oral History Victoria members, before being made available to non-members from the 5th of February. To become an OHV member visit https://oralhistoryvictoria.org.au/membership/
BOOKINGS: https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-advanced-workshop-teaching-oral-history-training-the-trainers
Time
15 (Saturday) March, 12{12Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +1100} 00{03003} All Day(GMT+11:00)
Organizer
29mar9:30 am3:30 pmIntroductory Oral History Training1-Day Workshop
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who
Event Details
This one-day workshop is ideal for those who are new to oral history and want to know more about what is involved. The workshop is also useful for librarians who are working with oral history archives, and would like an insight into the interviewing side of things.
The morning session focuses on oral history ethics, while the afternoon session is all about the practicalities of interviewing. Participants will have the opportunity to conduct a practice interview.
About the trainers:
Alison Atkinson-Phillips is the president of Oral History WA and vice president of Oral History Australia. Alison is an experienced oral historian and the author of Survivor Memorials: Remembering Trauma and Loss in Contemporary Australia, based on her oral history work with memory activists.
Janet Baldwin has 21 years of experience in oral history: teaching, interviewing, transcribing and managing projects. Her clients include: State Library WA, WA Shires and Councils, Perth Observatory, Spiritualist women. Janet is the author of: Telescopes, Timekeeping and Teabag Jigglers and Out and About with Artemis at Perth Observatory, both based on oral history.
Cate Pattison has worked as a social and oral historian since 2013 for a range of public and private clients, presenting and publishing her work at national and international Oral History conferences and journals. Cate’s previous career was in media and market research, and she now also works as a heritage officer for the Royal Agricultural Society. Forthcoming publication: Gearing up the Groupies: The State Implement Works and Group Settlement in Western Australia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Time
29 (Saturday) March, 9{09Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0800} 30{03303} 9:30am - 3:30pm(GMT+08:00)
Location
State Library of Western Australia
25 Francis St, Perth WA 6000
May 2025
17may10:00 am12:00 pmOHWA General Meeting (Virtual)
Event Details
Join us for a mid-year General Meeting to catch up on the work of the Committee and hear what other members are doing.Email contact@oralhistorywa.org.au for the Teams link
Event Details
Join us for a mid-year General Meeting to catch up on the work of the Committee and hear what other members are doing.
Email contact@oralhistorywa.org.au for the Teams link or to find out more details.
Time
17 (Saturday) May, 10{10Sat, 17 May 2025 10:00:00 +0800} 00{05005} 10:00am - 12:00pm(GMT+08:00)