OHA 2019 Biennial Conference – Call for Presentations

Oral History Australia’s next biennial conference will be held at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane on 10 to 13 October 2019  and proposals for presentations are now being accepted.

Courtesy of State Library of Victoria, ca 1937-43, Argus, This soldier brought a megaphone along with which to shout farewell messages.

The 2019 Biennial Oral History Australia Conference takes place in our 40th anniversary year. Oral History Queensland and Oral History Australia are presenting the conference in partnership with the State Library of Queensland and Queensland Memory. The theme is Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories.

The main conference will be on Friday 11 October and Saturday 12 October 2019. Oral history training workshops will be held at a Brisbane venue on Thursday 10 October. Following the conference, on Sunday 13 October, a selection of history walks and tours will introduce participants to the region’s rich and diverse communities of memory.

In keeping with 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages, a Keynote plenary panel will focus on Oral History, Oral Tradition and Indigenous History (with invited speakers from Australia, New Zealand and Canada).

Keynote speakers will includeAssociate Professor Katrina Srigley from Nipissing University in Canada, co-editor of Beyond Women’s Words: feminisms and the practices of oral history in the twenty-first century (2018), and currently co-researching Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing: A-Kii Bemaadzijik, E-Niigannwang: The Stories of Nbisiing: the Land, the People, the Future; and Nbisiing Anishinabek Biimadiziwin: to understand the past and shape the future, in partnership with Nipissing First Nation.

Call for Presentations

We are currently accepting proposals for the 2019 conference. The closing date is 1 March 2019. Find out more about the Call for Presentations and how to submit a proposal. Visit the Call for Presentations page on OHA’s website.

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