The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 18-21 October 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Oral history is the oldest form of education. For its 2023 annual meeting, the Oral History Association seeks to convene a variety of shared experiences that return the field’s consciousness to its most basic and practical roots of dialogical teaching and learning. The politics of education today are contentious, to say the least. Stories of educators being silenced have become alarmingly commonplace, and the pandemic has driven many teachers, especially secondary level, out of the classroom altogether. At the same time, however, educators have been proving their resilience and capacity for innovation. Likewise, as a field, oral history is undergoing a paradigm shift towards radical inclusivity. In this transitional moment, we hope to find new possibilities, generate new approaches, and recall and refurbish the fundamentally humanistic impulse of oral history as/and education.

The 2023 OHA meeting will provoke many generative discussions about the fundamental roles that oral history can play in educational processes, and the ways critical pedagogy can inform oral history practice. What can the spirit and methods of oral history contribute to modern-day educational endeavors, at all levels? How might a learner’s life be changed by an assignment of oral history work in college, high school, middle school, elementary school, or even for adult learners outside the classroom? How do we honor and maximize the educational potential of the oral history encounter, for both participants and audience members?

Find out more:

• Call for Proposals
• Oral History Association website

The Canberra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) will this year host the Society’s 18th Biennial Conference. The Conference will be held at the Research School of Social Sciences Building (Building #146, Ellery Crescent), ANU, Canberra, on 23-25 November 2023.

The theme of the conference is (Re)Sources: Historical Inquiry and Labour History Archives provides for reflection on the significance of archives and libraries to the study of history. Archives and collections provide individuals and communities, authors and historians, and unions and universities the opportunity to reflect on their pasts, recover lost voices, contextualise established ones, and check the facts.

Find out more:

• The Call for Papers and welcome papers on a range of subjects are available at: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/cfp-resources-historical-inquiry-and-labour-history-archives/. Abstracts are due by 31 May 2023.
• Go to the conference website at: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/asslh-2023-conference/.

Join us in marvelous Melbourne for the 2024 OHA Biennial Conference – from 21-24 November 2024.

The conference has the theme ‘The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities’. It is being presented by Oral History Victoria and Oral History Australia at Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, Parkville.