The Oral History Society, United Kingdom, will hold its 50th anniversary annual conference in Nottingham 23-24 June 2023. The theme is ‘Making Histories Together‘.

Oral history is about working together: with interviewees, within projects and across all kinds of partnerships. Co-creation and collaborative dialogue are at the heart of oral history, and the relationships between the interviewer and the interviewee can be as fruitful and successful as they can be complex and difficult.

To access the Call for Papers (submission deadline 6 January 2023) and further information about the conference go to: https://www.ohs.org.uk/conferences/.

The 22nd International Oral History Association (IOHA) Conference is scheduled for Rio de Janiero, Brazil from 25-28 July 2023. The host is the School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (FGV CPDOC).

The theme of the conference is Oral History in a Digital and Audiovisual World.

Twenty-five years after hosting the 10th International Oral History Conference, in June 1998 in Rio de Janeiro, FGV CPDOC once again hosts the world’s most important meeting of the Oral History community. If back in 1998, a context during which a South American country held the event for the first time, a number of concerns specific to the turn of the millennium were posed to congress participants, we can ask: what about oral history in the present time?

Updating this question more than ten years later, we realize that digital and audiovisual technologies impact and permeate oral history debates around the world. The use of video capture in interviews, documentary production and the potentialities of the digital and the challenges regarding its preservation are some of the concerns we have noticed in conferences and recent oral history projects. Still, the use of digital technologies and videoconference tools in the production of interviews has been employed, with parsimony, since the 2010s.

Find out more about the conference at: https://eventos.fgv.br/en/22nd-ioha-international-conference.

See the Call for Work Presentations and Workshop Proposals – https://eventos.fgv.br/en/22nd-ioha-international-conferences/submission. Deadline for proposal submissions – 1 November 2022.