Saturday 12 November AND Saturday 19 November 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…
19 June 2022 @ 12.30pm (Following the OHV Symposium) The Salon, Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, Victoria Please click here for the formal notice of the Special General Meeting and for access to other important documents.
Oral History Australia (OHA) is inviting applications for its three awards – the Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History and the OHA book and media awards – with recipients to be announced during the Biennial Conference in…
On the morning of Sunday the 19th of June, we are very pleased to be hosting the OHV Annual Symposium – “Oral History: Making it Work during the Pandemic” at the Abbotsford Convent. Registrations have opened! For details of the…
Presented in collaboration with Oral History Victoria, the Oral History Award ($1500) recognises the best oral history presentation in any format that uses first person interviews with individuals with unique life experiences and memories. View information on past award recipients…
In 2019 Monash History graduate students created an oral history reading group that met monthly to discuss topical readings in oral history theory and method and to provide peer support. Over the years graduate students from other Victorian universities have…
The 40th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference, will be hosted by Deakin University Contemporary Histories Research Group on the theme Urgent Histories, at the Deakin Geelong Waterfront Campus, 27th June – 1st July 2022. Oral History Victoria is supporting an…
OHV warmly congratulates the winners of the 2021 Oral History Award (Victorian Community History Awards) Lynda Mitchelson-Twigg, representing the Gippsland Lakes commercial fishing community, assisted by Nikki and Leigh Henningham, Tanya King, Donna Squire and Geoff Stanton) for their…
Organisers of the 2021 Oral History Award, awarded jointly by Oral History Victoria, the Royal Historical Society and Public Records Office Victoria, have announced the shortlisted nominees. COVID Kids Oral History Project – Way Back When Consulting Historians. End of…
By Alice Garner On Sunday 20 June, we held our annual symposium, ‘Plan or Perish: Ensuring the survival of community oral histories’. Uncertainty due to changing CoVID-19 restrictions meant that the event took place online. The aim of the symposium…