The four-day Graduate Oral History Intensive scheduled for October 2026 has been postponed till March 2027. The new training dates are Friday 5 March and Saturday 6 March, and Friday 19 March and Saturday 20 March 2027. If you registered for…
The OHV AGM will be held online, 5.30pm Monday 23rd November 2026. A formal notice and agenda will be sent to members before the event. We hope to see as many of our members as possible at the annual meeting.
Do you enjoy engaging in constructive discussion about oral history with diverse members of the oral history community? Do you want to be part of a team shaping action to support oral history in Victoria? Nominations for the 2027 committee…
Curtin University PhD student Sam Scott has recently joined the OHV committee of management. Sam’s recently completed thesis explores the Chilean diaspora in Melbourne. We are delighted to have Sam on board. Sam’s arrival follows the departure of Gerard Callinan…
Oral history extraordinaire Doug Boyd is visiting Melbourne in December and will give an in-person talk on artificial intelligence and oral history on the evening of Tuesday 8th December 2026. The talk will follow his keynote address at the Biennial OHA…
Four grants available to attend the 2026 OHA Conference in South Australia!
Registration is now open for the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference. Go to the booking page on Humanitix to book conference registration, workshops and tours and the conference dinner. Early bird pricing is available until 30 October 2026. Member concession rates…
Contributors are invited to submit articles for peer review and reports for the 2027 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA). The deadline for peer review is 3 December 2026 and for reports, 31 January…
Prominent oral historians Alistair Thomson and Heather Goodall have been honoured with lifetime achievement awards by the Australian Historical Association (AHA). Past Oral History Australia (OHA) president Alistair Thomson and Professor Heather Goodall were two of three historians to be…
The 2026 OHA Biennial Conference is getting closer. Registration is scheduled to open in early August and applications and nominations for the OHA awards will be closing soon. The OHA Book Award will close as scheduled on 31 July 2026,…