Events
Upcoming events
September 2025
11sep6:00 pm7:00 pmWater StoriesRecording Memories of Water in Oral History Interviews
Event Details
In oral history interviews, memories of water often incorporate broader conversations about environmental change, community histories, personal identities and political debates. Whether in the complexities of water management, the witnessing
Event Details
In oral history interviews, memories of water often incorporate broader conversations about environmental change, community histories, personal identities and political debates. Whether in the complexities of water management, the witnessing of changing climates, the trauma of disaster, or the pleasures of swimming in a river or the sea, the ways in which people talk about water can tell us a great deal about their relationships to place, community, the past and the present. In this panel discussion, three oral historians, Dr Scott McKinnon, Dr Margaret Cook, and Professor Katie Holmes, will reflect on their interviews about water, including its politics, joys and risks on a heating planet.
Cost: $20 non members, $10 OHNSW/OHA members
Where: Online webinar
Organised by: Oral History NSW
Bookings and further information: https://www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/9/11/water-stories#!event-register/2025/9/11/water-stories-recording-memories-of-water-in-oral-history-interviews.
This event is presented online by Oral History NSW as part of History Week 2025
Time
11 September 2025 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT+10:00)
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October 2025
15octAll Day18OHA (United States)Exploring Our American Stories
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 15-18 October 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The year 2025 marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 15-18 October 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
The year 2025 marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed. For this year’s Annual Meeting, the Oral History Association will convene people around the question: What is America?
Participants will reflect on the ways in which American identity is documented, framed, and perceived by its citizens and the world.
Just as Americans have proven their resilience and capacity for change, oral history, as a field, has been undergoing a paradigm shift towards radical inclusivity. The Annual Meeting serves as a gathering space to amplify practitioners finding new possibilities, generating new approaches, reassessing best practices, and recalling and refurbishing the fundamentally democratic impulse of oral history practice.
Find out more about the conference including the program, workshops, tours and registration:
Time
15 October 2025 - 18 October 2025 (All Day)(GMT-04:00)
Location
Crowne Plaza
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Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community?
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.
This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.
After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.
Feedback from past participants on this course
‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’
‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’
‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!
‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’
‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’
‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’
Tickets
Book via Humanitix here: https://events.humanitix.com/oral-history-interviewing-for-beginners
*Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2025*
Trainer profiles
Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.
Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al’s oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017) and Fathering: An Australian History (2025). Al is currently co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook.
Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu if you’d like to discuss the course.
Training program format
Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays:
Saturday 18th and 25th October 2025
On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.
Time
18 October 2025 9:30 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+11:00)
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
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Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community?
Event Details
Have you always wanted to learn how to create an oral history interview? Or do you have an interest in recording the memories of elders in your family or community? Maybe you’re wondering whether or not to record remotely, or you’re thinking about conducting face-to-face interviews.
This popular Oral History Victoria two-day online training workshop is for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare, conduct, record and document an oral history interview. Facilitated by two of Australia’s most experienced oral history trainers, and using Zoom technology, you will learn and practice essential interview techniques and discuss important ethical issues.
After the first Saturday sessions, you will conduct your own oral history interview (remote recording or face-to-face), which will be a learning resource in the second Saturday sessions. The workshop will be limited to 16 participants to enable lively discussion and practical work in an online format. Participants will need a computer with wifi connection – the Zoom link will be provided, along with Zoom instructions.
Feedback from past participants on this course
‘The skills I learnt and the discussions that took place were invaluable’
‘I liked it that our activities really tested our comfort zones. It was just terrific.’
‘Al and Sarah are wonderful educators and facilitators!
‘A wonderful learning experience. I’ve definitely fallen in love with oral history too!’
‘I loved the course – learned so much on so many different levels, far more than I would have expected in 8 hours. Well done on awesome Zoom teaching.’
‘Thanks so much for providing us with such a great course. I have already promoted future courses to my friends.’
Tickets
Book via Humanitix here: https://events.humanitix.com/oral-history-interviewing-for-beginners
*Please note, tickets are made available to OHV members first, before being made more widely available from the 2nd of September 2025*
Trainer profiles
Sarah Rood is a professional consulting historian who has been working in the field for the past 20 years. She has seen the uses and applications of oral history change drastically. Motivated by a desire to help communicate the past and to help connect individuals and communities with history and identity Sarah has recorded countless oral history interviews. Firmly believing that everyone has a story to tell, Sarah aims to work with people to record their stories in a way that both documents their experiences and ensures that (with permission) it can be accessed by others in the future. Exploring the relationship between new technologies and oral histories has become a particular area of interest for Sarah in recent years. Similarly, the interplay between the tangible and the intangible and how this plays out in oral history is a constant source of intrigue for Sarah.
Alistair Thomson, national award-winning teacher and now Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University, taught his first oral history workshop in 1985 at the Wangaratta Centre for Continuing Education and has been teaching oral history in both community and academic settings ever since. Al’s oral history books include: Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994), The Oral History Reader (2016), Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (2005), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011), Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017) and Fathering: An Australian History (2025). Al is currently co-editing The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook.
Contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu if you’d like to discuss the course.
Training program format
Timing: the workshop takes place over two consecutive Saturdays:
Saturday 18th and 25th October 2025
On each workshop day the session will go from 9.30am – 4 pm with a lunch break from 12 – 1.15 pm.
Time
25 October 2025 9:30 am - 4:00 pm(GMT+11:00)
Organizer
November 2025
26novAll Day28ASSLH Conference 2025The Spirit of 1975: Transformations in Australian Labour History
Event Details
In 2025, the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) will host the Society’s 19th Biennial Conference. The conference will be held from 26 to 28
Event Details
In 2025, the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) will host the Society’s 19th Biennial Conference.
The conference will be held from 26 to 28 November 2025 and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the International Women’s Year, the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, and the end of the American War in Vietnam.
The Spirit of 1975: Transformations in Australian Labour History invites historians and activists to take up this theme, as well as addressing wider issues and developments epitomised by the events of the 1970s in politics, protests, ideas, and cultural and social movements in Australia and abroad.
Go to: the conference website.
Time
26 November 2025 - 28 November 2025 (All Day)(GMT+11:00)
Location
Research School of Social Sciences Building (Building #146, Ellery Crescent)