Presenters: Nicolette Snowden & Miranda Francis

Date: Sunday 23 March, 2025

Time: 10am to 3:30pm

Location: Kathleen Syme Library, Carlton

Miranda and Nicolette understand that starting an oral history project can be daunting. We want to equip you with the essentials, from project documentation like consent forms, to the technology you need (yes we include simple and free options!), and the must-do interview techniques. You’ll leave the workshop feeling confident, empowered, motivated, and with practical interviewing experience. You’ll also receive extra resources such as our top-pick websites and reading materials – which we use and recommend – so you know where to go if you get stuck. We believe learning is best done when it’s collaborative, fun, hands-on, and with time for questions and discussions, including learning what to do when the unexpected happens. Everyone welcome – no oral history experience required.

Book here.

Heritage Advising and the Aboriginal Heritage Act

Tuesday 1 April – 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Online via Zoom.

Trainers: Maddy Maitri and Anoushka Lenffer

PHA (Vic & Tas) and Oral History Victoria are pleased to present this opportunity to learn more about the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act (2006).

Presenters Maddi Maitri and Anoushka Lenffer from First Peoples State Relations will provide an overview of how the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 operates to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage and Aboriginal intangible heritage in Victoria. Our conversation will discuss the role of Heritage Advisors, including historians, and explore ways historians can contribute to the recording and management of Aboriginal cultural heritage.

This session will be hosted via Zoom and is free of charge for PHA (Vic & Tas) and Oral History Victoria members. Please register to be sent the Zoom link before the meeting.

If you are a member of both organisations, please select PHA (Vic & Tas) as this will be recorded in your profile for Professional Development Program purposes and indicate you are a member of OHV. We will forward your registration on them.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS

Maddy Maitri is a Senior Heritage Project Officer in the Ongoing Protection Declarations program in First Peoples State Relations in the Victorian Government. She has several decades of experience working in the historical and Aboriginal heritage management sectors as a heritage advisor, researcher and educator.

Anoushka Lenffer is a Senior Heritage Policy Officer also in First Peoples State Relations. As well as experience working with the Aboriginal Heritage Act, she has a background in native title research and policy and dispute resolution.

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/conferences/.

Saturday 16 August 2025.

Online via Zoom.

Trainer Al Thomson

More details to come.

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 23^rd 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.