OHAA Biennial National Conference and the 21st State History Conference: She said, he said: reading, writing and recording history

The Biennial National Conference of the OHAA and the 21st State History Conference 21 – 24 September 2013 University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, South Australia
The Oral History Association of Australia, History SA and the University of South Australia will jointly host this conference, which will bring together professional, academic, community and oral historians. The call for papers has closed and the program will be available by early May.

The conference will feature a range of themes relating to contested histories; memory, technology and new developments in oral history; urban history, and Indigenous history. We hope the conference will also consider history and the future.

The conference will be held at the University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, South Australia.

• Memory, history and the role of the senses
• Recording the history of disasters – and when is the right time to interview survivors
• History as therapy, including reminiscence and narrative therapy
• The uses of history, including oral history, in performance, plays, theatre, radio and film
• Technology and oral history, including websites, the ethical dimensions of accessibility, intellectual property and plagiarism
• Both sides of the microphone – understanding the experiences of oral history interviewers (including the issue of vicarious trauma), and interviewees (including creatingpositive experiences for interviewees)
• First and second generation accounts of migration and refugee experience
• Public policy and private pain – recording and writing histories of past practices including the Stolen Generations, the Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and people affected by forced adoption
• History-writing and social change
• Activating cities and communities – making links between urban history and urban renewal
• The history of urban renewal
• New work in town and city histories
• Digital history in the age of web 3.0 and smartphones
• Digital sources as data and the place of interpretation
• Citizen history? Making user-contributed content more meaningful
• Writing history for the web
• New work in Indigenous history: in education and in the courtroom
• Indigenous perspectives on South Australian history
• Contested histories in the public realm
• Which history? History in public events: commemorations, festivals and re-enactments
• Memoir and history – what’s the difference?
• Speculative histories – and looking to the past to predict the future
• Involving Indigenous communities in local history
• What happens to local history when history takes a transnational turn?
• Accessible local history in and out of the museum
• Community museums and education – from school age to the third age
• Material history: the materiality of everyday life and the interpretation of historical objects
• Historical images and their interpretation

Further details and enquiries:

June Edwards, contact@ohaa-sa.com.au
(08) 8293 1314
Mandy Paul, Senior Curator, History SA, mpaul@history.sa.gov.au
(08) 8203 9808

16 May 2013 – Adelaide:  How to do oral history

Oral History Workshop, please contact June Edwards for further details.

Workshops  introduce participants to the practice and methods of doing an oral history interview and provides equipment training on Fostex digital recorders.

Time: 10am – 3.30pm

Venue: State Library of SA, North Tce., Adelaide.
Cost: $60 per person per day or $30 for concession/pension/student/OH  member

Bookings essential:
Contact June Edwards OHAA (SA Branch) by clicking the following link: contact@ohaa-sa.com.au
or Phone the State Library on (08) 8207 7260

Purpose

This grant scheme aims to foster small  oral  history  initiatives in South Australia. The Oral  History Association of Australia (South Australian Branch) wishes to support, assist and help develop oral  history  projects in this State. The grant scheme is funded by sales of the Oral History Handbook by Beth  M. Robertson.

We hope that the scheme fills a gap left by the closure of many federal and state funding options and helps revive an important means of recording South Australia’s history. We encourage all prospective oral  historians to join our Association so that we can help fulfill these objectives.

To apply, click here to download the application form.

Please submit by 30 June, 2013. If emailing submissions please send to the branch email address contact@ohaa-sa.com.au attention June Edwards

Lizzie Russell Oral History Grant 2012

There were a number of good grant submissions this year.

Congratulations go to CraftSA for their project Traditional Craft Skills Project – Creative Partnerships Oral History

We look forward to hearing more about this project in the new year.