Due to the ongoing global pandemic, the Oral History Society (OHS) of the United Kingdom has decided to hold its next annual conference online in July 2021. The conference, which has the theme ‘Oral History and the Media’, was originally…
Oral History Tasmania and Oral History Australia today released a Call for Presentations for the upcoming OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 14-16 October 2021. The conference theme is ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Challenges and…
The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and the National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ) have issued a Call for Papers for the New Zealand Oral History Conference scheduled to take place from 20-22 November 2020. The…
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of its 2020 annual and biennial prizes and awards and a number of oral historians feature among the recipients. Congratulations to: Karen Twigg for winning the Jill Roe Prize for the best…
Oral History Australia is very excited to announce two new national awards for oral historians: the Oral History Australia Book Award, and the Oral History Australia Media Award. The awards are to be presented every two years with the first…
The National Library of Australia will next week farewell one of its leading oral history professionals when Shelly Grant retires after more than three decades of public service. Shelly began work at the National Library of Australia (NLA) in 1984 when…
Congratulations to Dr Sue Anderson on being elected President of the International Oral HistoryAssociation at the biannual conference in Finland last week. Sue is the immediate past president of Oral History Australia and editor of the OHA Journal. A lecturer…
Our 2017 conference is done and dusted. Read reports on the conference by: CHENG Nien Yuan, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies Hamish Sewell, member, Queensland. View: our photo gallery from the…