Oral History Victoria is pleased to announce that four grants of up to $750 each may be awarded to any member, and at least one student member presenting a paper at the 2019 Biennial Oral History Australia Conference, ‘Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories’, 10-13 October 2019 in Brisbane.
Deadline for submissions to present a conference paper is 8 March 2019.
See https://www.oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/2019-conference.html
Eligibility
- must be a member of Oral History Victoria, or become a member before taking up the grant
- must be undertaking research based on or concerning oral history, or demonstrate how you are using oral history as part of a project .
- must attend the 2019 Biennial Oral History Australia Conference in Brisbane
- must be the presenter of a paper accepted for presentation at the conference
Student members in addition
- must be currently enrolled in an honours or post graduate research degree in any discipline
Eligible applications will be assessed on the clarity of their aims and the significance of their paper to oral historians.
Applications must be submitted on the attached form by 15 May 2019.
Download an application form by clicking here.
Please send your application by email with Conference grant 2019 as subject heading (include any attached supporting documents) to contact.oralhistoryvictoria@gmail.com
It is expected that successful applicants will be advised by Friday 31 May 2019
Courtesy of State Library of Victoria, Presentation of cheque to Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, ca 1968.
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 include: Associate 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.
