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2024 OHA awards now open
Oral History Australia (OHA) is inviting applications for its three awards – the Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History and the OHA book and media awards – with recipients to be announced during the Biennial Conference in Melbourne in November 2024....
New conference proposal deadline
The deadline for proposals for the 2024 Biennial Conference is now 8 April 2024. Don't miss out. The 2024 conference will be held from 21-24 November at Trinity College in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville. The theme is 'The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards &...
Oral History Training in Perth: 24 March 2024
Oral History WA is committed to ensuring oral history interviews are conducted to a high standard, in terms of ethics, protocols and (where possible) audio quality. To support this aim, we are offering an introductory workshop to individuals and groups who are new to...
Oral History WA News Bulletin
Welcome to the first OHWA Bulletin for 2024! We look forward to sharing our news and your news with other OHWA members and interested friends. Your contribution of oral history projects and special events will be appreciated, and perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn...
Details of Portelli address
Details of the keynote address to be delivered by Alessandro Portelli at our 2024 Biennial Conference in Melbourne in November are now available on the conference website. One of the most influential oral historians in the world Alessandro Portelli will deliver an...
New journal joint editor
Dr Carolyn Collins of the University of Adelaide has been appointed joint editor of the Oral History Australia journal Studies in Oral History. Carolyn replaces Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy who has been joint editor since 2019 with Dr Skye Krichauff . Skye continues in the...
2024 journal CFP extended
The deadline for peer-reviewed articles for consideration in the 2024 issue of our journal Studies in Oral History has been extended to 15 January 2024. The deadline for submission of reports remains 30 April 2024. Go to the Call for Papers, Issue No. 46, 2024. The...
2023 OHA journal now available
The 2023 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA), is now available. Issue 45, which is freely available online, features the same theme as last year's OHA Biennial Conference ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Opportunities and...
Video – Conference proposals
A video is now available to help those considering submitting a proposal to the 2024 OHA Biennial Conference. Hosted by OHA national president Alistair Thomson it provides information about the sorts of proposals that can be submitted for the conference and how to...
An Opportunity Not to Missed
ACCREDITED ORAL HISTORY TRAINING IN PERTH WHEN: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 November 2023, 10 am to 4 pm WHERE: State Library of WA, 25 Francis St. PERTH WA 6000 Interested in learning how to interview to hear the best stories from family and friends? Want to learn...