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Upcoming events
March 2026
07mar10:00 am12:00 pmIntroduction to Oral HistoryOral History NSW online eventTRAINING
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In this introductory seminar, Oral History NSW Vice President Scott McKinnon will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps
Event Details
In this introductory seminar, Oral History NSW Vice President Scott McKinnon will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps in planning oral history projects, including tips on preparing for, undertaking and preserving interviews.
Visit the OHNSW website to register – https://www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2026-intro-seminar-march#!event-register/2026/3/7/an-introduction-to-oral-history-key-principles-everyone-should-know.
Cost: OHA/OHNSW members: $20 Non-members: $30
Please note the seminar will not be recorded.
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June 2026
29junAll Day03julAHA Conference 2026Changing Minds
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The 2026 Australian Historical Association Conference will be hosted by Macquarie Unviesity in Sydney, New South Wales from 29 June to 3 July.The organising committee a welcome historians from around
Event Details
The 2026 Australian Historical Association Conference will be hosted by Macquarie Unviesity in Sydney, New South Wales from 29 June to 3 July.
The organising committee a welcome historians from around Australia and the world to Sydney, on Dharug Country, to share their new research and engage one another on the pressing questions facing our discipline and our communities, under the theme ‘Changing Minds’.
Call for Papers
The capacity to ‘change one’s mind’ is a foundational premise in the discipline of history. Upon encountering evidence that disrupts our existing explanations, the story goes, we might adjust, rework or perhaps even overturn our interpretations. And yet, historians do not often describe how and why they have changed their minds. While we are comfortable tracing changes in historiography, it seems harder to narrate our own intellectual alterations or confess that we were once, perhaps, mistaken.
As historians, we also tend to be quite interested in how mentalities, attitudes, and beliefs change over time. Might there be a relationship to consider between how we narrate changes in ourselves as researchers and the changes we seek to explain? Perhaps a more honest account of our own attachments and preoccupations would help us to explain why some changes happen quickly, others take an age and some, though imagined and wished for, never seem to eventuate.
To consider how we might make space for, explain and even produce changes of heart and mind, the 2026 AHA annual meets at Macquarie University, on Dharug Country, in Sydney. The organisers welcome proposals for papers and panels on any geographical area, time period, field of history, or theoretical or conceptual aspects of history, especially those that consider changes of mind, whether historical or historiographic. The conference will also continue the tradition of hosting streams for various AHA-affiliated groups and sub-disciplinary themes.
Submissions
Submission deadline: 1 February 2026
Submissions for individual papers should be made via this online form.
Submissions for panels should be made via this online form.
Enquiries can be sent to aha2026@mq.edu.au
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Macquarie University
July 2026
29junAll Day03julAHA Conference 2026Changing Minds
Event Details
The 2026 Australian Historical Association Conference will be hosted by Macquarie Unviesity in Sydney, New South Wales from 29 June to 3 July.The organising committee a welcome historians from around
Event Details
The 2026 Australian Historical Association Conference will be hosted by Macquarie Unviesity in Sydney, New South Wales from 29 June to 3 July.
The organising committee a welcome historians from around Australia and the world to Sydney, on Dharug Country, to share their new research and engage one another on the pressing questions facing our discipline and our communities, under the theme ‘Changing Minds’.
Call for Papers
The capacity to ‘change one’s mind’ is a foundational premise in the discipline of history. Upon encountering evidence that disrupts our existing explanations, the story goes, we might adjust, rework or perhaps even overturn our interpretations. And yet, historians do not often describe how and why they have changed their minds. While we are comfortable tracing changes in historiography, it seems harder to narrate our own intellectual alterations or confess that we were once, perhaps, mistaken.
As historians, we also tend to be quite interested in how mentalities, attitudes, and beliefs change over time. Might there be a relationship to consider between how we narrate changes in ourselves as researchers and the changes we seek to explain? Perhaps a more honest account of our own attachments and preoccupations would help us to explain why some changes happen quickly, others take an age and some, though imagined and wished for, never seem to eventuate.
To consider how we might make space for, explain and even produce changes of heart and mind, the 2026 AHA annual meets at Macquarie University, on Dharug Country, in Sydney. The organisers welcome proposals for papers and panels on any geographical area, time period, field of history, or theoretical or conceptual aspects of history, especially those that consider changes of mind, whether historical or historiographic. The conference will also continue the tradition of hosting streams for various AHA-affiliated groups and sub-disciplinary themes.
Submissions
Submission deadline: 1 February 2026
Submissions for individual papers should be made via this online form.
Submissions for panels should be made via this online form.
Enquiries can be sent to aha2026@mq.edu.au
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Macquarie University
September 2026
18sepAll Day20NOHANZ Conference 2026Tūranga | Places we belong
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The National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) will hold its biennial conference from 18-20 September 2026 at the Tūranga Central City Library, Christchurch. The theme of the conference
Event Details
The National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) will hold its biennial conference from 18-20 September 2026 at the Tūranga Central City Library, Christchurch. The theme of the conference is Tūranga | Places we belong.
Proposals for a paper or panel should be submitted by Monday 25 May 2026.
For details go to the Call for Papers: https://www.oralhistory.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NOHANZ-CALL-FOR-PAPERS-2026.pdf.
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October 2026
14octAll DayOHA (USA) Annual Meeting 2026Landscapes of Memory
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The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 14 to 17 October 2026 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The theme is ‘Landcapes of Memory’.Call for ProposalsOur
Event Details
The annual meeting of the Oral History Association will be held from 14 to 17 October 2026 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The theme is ‘Landcapes of Memory’.
Call for Proposals
Our memories are shaped by the landscapes we inhabit—both real and imagined. These landscapes are shifting in the face of environmental change, political instability, and an ongoing sense of crisis. Ancient connections with the natural world are being severed, and people are displaced not only from this innate connection to the earth but also from familiar ways of living and relating to one another. As oral historians, we witness narrators’ struggles to imagine new identities within this changing ecology.
For the 2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, the Association invites contributions from around the world —from those working in academia, advocacy, education, and community-based practice—that speak to how people shape and are shaped by the landscapes they inhabit, traverse, defend, or are forced to leave behind. We welcome proposals that explore relationships to land, memory, and movement across shifting environmental, political, and cultural boundaries.
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November 2026
26novAll Day292026 OHA Biennial ConferenceSave the date
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Oral History Australia and Oral History Victoria will present the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference at Adelaide University from 26 to 29 November 2026.Further details coming soon.
Event Details
Oral History Australia and Oral History Victoria will present the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference at Adelaide University from 26 to 29 November 2026.
Further details coming soon.
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Adelaide University
