OHA Biennial Conference 2022
Oral History in Troubling Times: Opportunities & Challenges
Program
View the program for the 2022 OHA Biennial Conference including workshops, conference sessions and post-conference tours. The program outline as at May 2022 is below or to access more detail – click on the button under the Quick Links box to download the full program.
Highlights
- Keynote: Mark Cave, ‘Why Did This Happen? Making Meaningful Answers in the Aftermath of Crisis’.
- Concluding plenary: Well-known palawa (Aboriginal) people of Tasmania Julie Gough, Theresa Sainty and Zoe Rimmer explore the significance of memory and history for Aboriginal people.
- Workshops: Scheduled for Thursday 13 October.
- Post conference tours: On Sunday 16 October Aunty Patsy Cameron will give a post-conference tour of Launceston’s stunning Cataract Gorge; this will be followed by a visit to the historic Beaconsfield Mine & Heritage Centre.
Outline
Workshops
8:45-10:40 – Jill Cassidy, Introducing Oral History
9:00-12:00 – Alistair Thomson, Interpreting Memories
9:00-5:00 – Hamish Sewell, Producing mobile-based audio walks from oral histories
10:50-12:45 – Linda Hunt, Interviewing and the art of asking questions
1:30-5:30 – Greg Appel, Podcasting oral history
6:00-17:30 – WELCOME RECEPTION
Conference Day 1
9:00-10:30 – WELCOME TO COUNTRY – Official conference opening. OPENING PLENARY – Mark Cave, ‘Why did this happen? Making meaningful answers in the aftermath of crisis’.
11:00-12:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 2: Women’s history, men’s history. Session 3: Queer oral histories. Session 4: Migrants and refugees.
1:30-3:00 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 5: Contested memories and histories. Session 6: Oral history and family history. Session 7: Responding to COVID.
3:30-5:00 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 8: Interpreting memories. Session 9: Oral histories in exhibition and film. Session 10: Place, community, memory.
5:00 – OHA AWARDS – Hazel de Berg Award, Media Award, Book Award, OHA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
Conference Day 2
9:00-10:30 – PLENARY SESSION: Kim Mahood, Mapping place, mapping story
11:00-12:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 12: Exploring issues and approaches to Indigenous oral histories. Session 13: War stories and oral history. Session 14: Creative writing and performance.
1:15-1:45 – LAUNCH of the 2022 OHA journal, Studies in Oral History
1:45-3:15 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 15: Place, community, memory. Session 16: Migrants, refugees and ethic community histories. Session 17: Working lives.
3:45-5:15 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 18: Climate change and oral history. Session 19: Indigenous oral histories. Session 20: New approaches to oral history.
7:00 – CONFERENCE DINNER
Conference Day 3
9:00-10:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS – Session 21: Recording interviews during the COVID pandemic. Session 22: Ethical and legal challenges in oral history. Session 23: Protest and activism.
11:00-12:30 – CLOSING PLENARY – palawa people of lutruwita Tasmania: challenges and opportunities.