Organisers of the 2020 Oral History Award, awarded jointly by Oral History Victoria, the Royal Historical Society and Public Records Office Victoria, have announced the shortlisted nominees. They are: Cockatoo: Voices from the Past – Dot Griffin, Jan Shaw, Ruth…
Oral History Tasmania and Oral History Australia today released a Call for Presentations for the upcoming OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 14-16 October 2021. The conference theme is ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Challenges and…
The first issue of the Oral History Australia journal under the new name Studies In Oral History will be based on the theme ‘Oral history, place and environment’. Journal editors Skye Krichauff and Carla Pascoe Leahy announced the theme of the special…
The July 2020 issue of the OHV newsletter ‘Rewind’ is now available. Highlights include: overview of our online event program annual symposium recording on new OHV You Tube channel new OHV membership system OHV web manager Jessica Ferrari talks oral…
After cancelling our first two workshops for the year due to COVID-19 restrictions, Oral History Victoria has staged five online events and has a further two scheduled. The response has been overwhelming. Online training Our first online training event, ‘Oral…
The Oral History Australia (OHA) journal is to be renamed Studies in Oral History from the next issue due later this year. Changing the title was first proposed and discussed at the 2019 OHA Biennial Conference in a session seeking…
The Oral History Victoria (OHV) committee is very pleased to announce the launch of a new membership system designed to streamline the renewal process for current members and make it easy for new members to join us. The membership system…
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming every aspect of our lives: home, work, school, socialising and leisure. In particular, social distancing requirements and travel restrictions have affected the research plans of many historians and oral historians are no exception. Some oral…
The May 2020 issue of the OHV newsletter ‘Rewind’ is now available. Highlights include: an outline of our updated events program in the COVID-19 environment details of Victorian and national oral history awards links to resources for remote interviewing and…
The International Oral History Association (IOHA) Biennial Conference, scheduled to be held in Singapore 22-26 June 2020, has been postponed until 2021 due to concerns over the coronavirus (COVID-19). In a short statement the IOHA said it was postponing the…