Symposium 2026

Victoria’s Precarious Oral History Collections: from identification to preservation

Date: Friday 21 August 2026

Time: 9:30am-12:30pm

Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne.

Booking details to come shortly.

Last year, the Identifying Victorian Precarious Oral History Collections project was hugely successful in identifying close to 10,000 oral history recordings in the Victorian community at risk of being lost without support for their sustainable preservation.

This symposium provides an opportunity to come together as a community of creators, holders and preservers of oral histories to consider what next steps we need to take to move beyond identification to preservation of Victoria’s precarious oral history collections.