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…
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…
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…
There has been an extension for entries to the 2026 Victorian Community History Awards, which include a dedicated oral history award, are now open. The new closing date is 5pm on July 7. The Victorian Community History Awards are proudly…
Nominations and applications are now being accepted for the 2026 OHA awards. The deadline is 31 July 2026. Winners will be announced at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference in Adelaide, South Australia, from 3-6 December . Three awards are on…
A recording of Oral History Victoria’s latest Talking about Listening event featuring Oral History Handbook author Beth Robertson and former OHV president Alice Garner is now available online. The Talking about Listening occasional series involves two oral historians discussing oral…
Proposals are now being accepted from those wishing to present at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Tardanya/Adelaide, South Australia, on the lands of the Kaurna people, from 3-6 December. The deadline for submission has been extended…
The deadline for contributions for the peer review section of the 2026 issue of our journal Studies in Oral History has been extended to 1 May 2026. The deadline for reports remains the same – 29 May 2026. This is the…
A free online guide and training package for community history groups that wish to create and preserve oral history collections is now available on the Oral History Victoria (OHV) website. Although developed specifically for Victorian community history groups, the package…
The sixth edition of Beth Robertson’s Oral History Handbook is now available. First released in 1983 as an A5 booklet, the handbook has long been the go-to guide for oral history practice in Australia, trusted by researchers, community groups and…