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.

Booking details to come.

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/.

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).

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).

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.