Events

Hosted by our OHV Committee Member and President of Oral History Australia, Professor Al Thomson, the Ideas and Skills Exchange session provides an opportunity for OHV members to ask questions and share experiences and discoveries in oral history.

Please click this URL to start or join. https://monash.zoom.us/j/84417515850?pwd=TGplUDlIckdqdmNxVVYxQ3N2dFBzUT09

Or, go to https://monash.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 844 1751 5850 and passcode: 667975

Ensure your device has a dedicated microphone and webcam.

Starts at 5:30PM AEDST

Hosted by our OHV Committee Member and President of Oral History Australia, Professor Al Thomson, the Ideas and Skills Exchange session provides an opportunity for OHV members to ask questions and share experiences and discoveries in oral history.

Please click this URL to start or join. https://monash.zoom.us/j/84417515850?pwd=TGplUDlIckdqdmNxVVYxQ3N2dFBzUT09 

Or, go to https://monash.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 844 1751 5850 and passcode: 667975

Ensure your device has a dedicated microphone and webcam.

Event Starts at 5:30 PM AEDST

Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.

This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.

After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.

Feedback from participants on this course 2020-2022

‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’

‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’

‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!

‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’

‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’

‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’

Tickets

To purchase your ticket, visit our Humanitix listing…

Click Here to Purchase Tickets

Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2024.

Trainer profiles

Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.

Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is currently President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017). Al is currently leading a research project about the history of fathering in Australia and co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu

Training program format

Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays.

On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.

Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.

This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.

After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.

Feedback from participants on this course 2020-2022

‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’

‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’

‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!

‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’

‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’

‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’

Tickets

To purchase your ticket, visit our Humanitix listing…

Click Here to Purchase Tickets

Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2024.

Trainer profiles

Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.

Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is currently President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017). Al is currently leading a research project about the history of fathering in Australia and co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu

Training program format

Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays.

On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.

Hosted by our OHV Committee Member and President of Oral History Australia, Professor Al Thomson, the Ideas and Skills Exchange session provides an opportunity for OHV members to ask questions and share experiences and discoveries in oral history.

Please click this URL to start or join. https://monash.zoom.us/j/84417515850?pwd=TGplUDlIckdqdmNxVVYxQ3N2dFBzUT09 

Or, go to https://monash.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 844 1751 5850 and passcode: 667975

Ensure your device has a dedicated microphone and webcam.

Event Starts at 5:30 PM AEDST

Hosted by our OHV Committee Member and President of Oral History Australia, Professor Al Thomson, the Ideas and Skills Exchange session provides an opportunity for OHV members to ask questions and share experiences and discoveries in oral history.

Please click this URL to start or join. https://monash.zoom.us/j/84417515850?pwd=TGplUDlIckdqdmNxVVYxQ3N2dFBzUT09 

Or, go to https://monash.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 844 1751 5850 and passcode: 667975

Ensure your device has a dedicated microphone and webcam.

Event Starts at 5:30 PM AEDST

Refunds will be provided to those who have registered.

Are you an experienced oral historian in Australia, New Zealand or Southeast Asia who would like to learn how to teach oral history in community, academic or professional contexts? This OHV online Advanced Workshop by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers will consider: issues in interactive teaching and learning; approaches to teaching online and face to face; the aims and varieties of oral history; teaching interviewing; teaching the documentation of interviews; and teaching oral history relationships and ethics (the course will not focus on teaching interpretation of interviews).

Participants in this advanced workshop must have extensive oral history experience. Victorian participants who successfully complete this course, and who then shadow the teaching of at least one other OHV training course, will be eligible to teach OHV training courses. Participants from other states and countries will be equipped to teach oral history beginner courses.

PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK ON THIS COURSE IN 2019 AND 2023:

“Incredibly useful workshop. Enjoyed the day immensely! Terrific facilitators, wonderful cohort.”

“Great session – really made it seem very possible to run a training session with oral history beginners. Got some great tips on group management and facilitation which will be really helpful.”

“Truly honest, open, constructive, value-adding workshop.”

“Appreciated how watchful Al and Sarah were of timing and content. A great range of activities that facilitated learning and understanding.”

TRAINER PROFILES

Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for more than 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. The interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah. In recent years Sarah’s focus has also turned to the way story gathering and storytelling can be applied to drive change. Contact: sjrood@waybackwhen.com.au

Alistair Thomson, Emeritus Professor of History and national award-winning teacher, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al is immediate past President of Oral History Australia. His oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries(2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017) and Fathering: An Australian History (2025). Al is currently co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu

NOTE: Tickets are made first available to Oral History Victoria members, before being made available to non-members from the 5th of February. To become an OHV member visit https://oralhistoryvictoria.org.au/membership/

BOOKINGS: https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-advanced-workshop-teaching-oral-history-training-the-trainers

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.