Oral History

Canadian Oral History Association (COHA) Prize

The Canadian Oral History Association (COHA) Prize is awarded to an outstanding example of oral history practise.  Eligible initiatives include oral history projects, books, articles, exhibitions, films, and other activities that actively engage with oral history.  Scholarly and popular works are eligible for consideration.  Community practitioners are especially encouraged to apply.

Works produced or published in the previous year are eligible for entry. 

Call for Papers

The PCB-AHA serves all members of the American Historical Association residing and working in the twenty-two states west of the Mississippi and the four western provinces of Canada. Our annual meeting brings together historians of all spatial, temporal, and thematic specializations.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida announces:

Event Dates: Thursday, March 21, 2019 to Saturday, March 23^rd

Locations: George A. Smathers Libraries and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art on the University of Florida campus & the A.

In the last two decades, hundreds of scholarly books have appeared on public history, memory, museum studies, historic preservation, and related fields, but few have addressed teaching public history. A vast literature exists within the scholarship of teaching and learning, but these studies tend to examine classrooms from an altitude of 30,000 feet, and few address public history. We have a need for more pedagogical work on the teaching of public history, but we do not need more theory, jargon, or how-to-do-it manuals. What we need are stories.

Finding aids:

Neda Al-Hilali papers, circa 1960-1995

Throughout her career Martha Ross was instrumental in encouraging students and young professionals to practice oral history. As an educator, Martha believed that "We must be diligent in preparing and training as oral historians, so that our dute to capture and preserve an individual's story contributes to and fosters the historical narrative." 

International conference on the occasion 

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS:

“Listening is the new reading,” claims Audible.com. This year, TexMoot will investigate many aspects of orality/aurality: literature for listening. We welcome presentations about storytelling, podcasting, audiobooks, voice acting, theatre, spoken-word poetry, personal narratives, gaming, and other verbal/vocal/auditory genres and/or their appearance in written works. Presentations can take the form of flash papers, conference-length talks, or creative performances.

We invite research papers in Political,Social,Economic and Cultural Hisotry of Kerala.Papers related to any relavant area of Society,Ecocnomy,Culture,Language and Literature of Kerala are also accepted.Last date for online registartion and paper submission is 10th Novemebr 2018.

Please join us in January 2019 for a five-day workshop. During the training week individuals are introduced to all aspects of the interview process, including general oral history theory and methodology, interviewing techniques and performance of mock interviews, legal and ethical issues, transcription practices, archiving, recording equipment and its use, data management, and other relevant topics. Interested participants are encouraged to bring their research ideas to the workshop.