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25.01.2022 Last chance! Enrolments closing at 5pm tonight!

25.01.2022 The History Council of SA has just announced an annual Fellowhip. For full details and the application go to: https://www.historycouncilsa.org.au/history-council-of-sou/. Applications close in December.

22.01.2022 Oral histories form the basis of this podcast - listen in!

21.01.2022 Looking to undertake online training in oral history? Well-known Western Australian oral historian Elaine Rabbitt is running a series of three webinars, beginning this week. EVENT DETAILS Three webinars two hours each 10:30 am to 12:30 pm WST 11,16, 18 February 2021 (check for Adelaide time)... This practical training is a stepping stone for further learning and possible employment opportunities. You will explore, plan and prepare for an oral history interview. You’ll develop an understanding of the cultural protocols and ethical considerations associated with documenting community histories. And when restrictions are lifted, you’ll have an opportunity to attend a one-day face to face practical recording workshop. REGISTRATION Three online sessions 2 hours each 10.30 12.30 (WST) Student resources Course fees: $195 (ex GST) for three sessions Enquiries and registration contact: Elaine Rabbitt email: [email protected] For Elaine Rabbitt oral history training and recording is a key focus and passion. She has recorded and continues to record the stories of people from all walks of life. In addition to working on state and national oral history projects, she has developed the accredited, oral history training materials for AHCILM404 ‘Record and Document Community History’. Elaine is the Training Manager at Goolarri Media Enterprises in Broome, and Training Convenor for Oral History Australia WA (OHAWA). See the WA site for more information: https://oralhistorywa.org.au/

20.01.2022 OHA Chat and Sip Event on Zoom next week! Covid-19 has certainly changed the way we do things. Initially the SA/NT committee had planned to hold informal ‘Fireside Chats' at various locations north and south of the city every 6-7 weeks. Now, and in keeping with this concept, the face-to-face chats have morphed in to an online ‘Chat and Sip'. Chat about oral history while sipping your favourite brew, at home, the office or wherever you happen to be. ... The idea is that you can join in, just listen, ask questions, talk about a project, solve problems, or catch up on what is happening in the world of oral history. When: Third Tuesday of every second Month starting on Tuesday August 18th at 1830 (6.30pm SA/NT time) How: It is a Zoom link that you can access here: Chat and Sip https://unisa.zoom.us/j/2385377149 Zoom: If you haven’t used it previously is a simple video conferencing option. You do not need any special software, an it works with Apple or Android hardware, phones, iPads, computers or laptops. Format: The session, which will run for approximately an hour to 90 minutes depending on interest, is unscripted. You can come in and leave when you wish. There is no formal agenda, just a brief introduction and then open to whatever points of interest you wish to bring up. Who can join in: Anyone who has an interest in oral history. Any questions or problems please contact: David Sweet at [email protected]

19.01.2022 We note with sadness the passing of Neville Clark last Friday. He was well known to many in the South Australian history community and will always be remembered for his kind assistance and deep knowledge.

18.01.2022 Would you like to learn more about conducting oral history interviews? Join us online from anywhere in the world for this introductory workshop and learn how to plan and record professional interviews. Workshops introduce participants to the practice and methods of doing an oral history interview, and the professional audio recorders used in oral history. Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020... Time: 10 am 3.30 pm (SA); 7.30 am 1 pm (WA); 9 am 2.30 pm (NT); 9.30 am 3pm (Qld) 10:30 am 4 pm (ACT, NSW, Vic, Tas) Venue: Online. Details about how to participate will be provided to all registrants. Cost: $80 per person per day; $60 for concession*/pension/student; $50 OHA member. *Concession cards include cards issued to the unemployed or pensioners, but not the seniors card. Head online to our website to find out more and to register for the event. https://oralhistoryaustraliasant.org.au//how-to-do-an-ora/

17.01.2022 This roundtable event will be recorded so Australian participants can view it when they wake up! Click through to the registration page and submit your registration - you will be provided with links to the presentations and recordings closer to the date via email.

16.01.2022 Some great tips from the UK Oral History Society, via their YouTube Channel.

16.01.2022 Last chance to enrol for our online oral history course, which will take place on 28 August. Note that this is a beginner's level course so it would be great for family historians, teachers, and university students who want to learn more about oral history and develop the skills to undertake oral history interviews. You can join from anywhere in the world - the great benefit of online learning! Make yourself a cup of tea and learn from the comfort of your own home. Follow the link for more information and details about how to enrol. http://oralhistoryaustraliasant.org.au//how-to-do-an-oral/

16.01.2022 Studies in Oral History journal special issue Oral History, Place and Environment. Humans are profoundly emplaced beings. We become attached to places be they homes, cities or natural environmentsso that when we are separated from them, we become homesick. Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan referred to this love of place or sense of place as ‘topophilia’, and it can also be connected to cultural belonging or family identity. Hence our place memories can be deeply felt and intensely ...personal. Moreover, place memories can retain a special resonance in the mind over time, associated as they are with sensory experiences, emotional associations and social inflections. Place matters, as oral historians have shown across a range of settings. Place can be specific and localised, but it can also be extrapolated to the physical environments we inhabit more broadly. Increasingly, the fields of oral history and environmental history are finding productive intersections. Oral history offers attention to the ways in which humans remember and narrate their relationships to environments. Environmental history insists upon close attention to the more-than-human world, and the relationships between nature and culture, people and place. As environmental catastrophes with anthropogenic causes become more common in the twenty-first century, understanding human interrelationships with specific places and the environment is arguably more criticaland more urgentthan ever before. This special issue of Studies in Oral History (formerly Oral History Australia Journal) invites reflections upon the ways in which oral history can illuminate and expand our understandings of place and environment. We invite broad and varied interpretations of this theme, which may include (but are not limited to): -Childhood memories of place -Connections to home, town, region or nation -Indigenous connections to country -Urban place memories -Regional and rural place memories -Place attachment and migration -Family history and meanings of ‘home’ -Intergenerational knowledge of and attachment to place -‘Natural’ disasters -Environmental activism -Histories of environmental degradation -Environmental regulation -Environmental protection and rejuvenation To be considered for peer review, articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words (excluding references) and are due 30 November 2020. Publication of the special issue is anticipated in late 2021. Any queries about this special issue can be directed to SOH Joint Editors Skye Krichauff [email protected] and Carla Pascoe Leahy [email protected]. Contributions can be emailed to the Chair of the SOH Editorial Board, Alexandra Dellios: [email protected]

14.01.2022 Click through to the AMOHG site to listen to this interesting discussion about oral history in the media.

13.01.2022 A great example of using oral history with secondary school students.

12.01.2022 Artist & Holocaust survivor, Andrew Steiner, says the role of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum & Steiner Education Centre is to work together towards a better, more just, fairer, compassionate world. The Museum is an incredibly important place where children, teachers & future generations can be educated about the tragedy of the Holocaust to learn the importance of tolerance & humanity. Never again.

10.01.2022 A call for papers from our national journal.

08.01.2022 There's even an oral history of Fame, the movie!

08.01.2022 A post from Greg Mackie: Wonderful news for Adelaide’s newest museum - an important learning place for present and future generations of young people. Congratulations to Andrew Steiner and the AHMSEC board and management. . It will officially open to the public from 10 November.

07.01.2022 Online workshop by OHA SA/NT Treasurer, Sally Stephenson, this Friday. Last chance! "Create a video using oral history recordings and images (online workshop)". Friday 9 October, 2020.... Time: 10:30am-1:30pm (ACT, NSW, Vic, Tas); 10am-1pm (SA); 9:30- 12:30 (Qld); 9am - 12noon (NT); 7:30am - 10:30am (WA) This hands-on workshop will: teach you how to use PowerPoint software to create videos (or digital stories) using audio-only interviews, sound effects, music, photographs and other images, and provide ideas about how to use your videos and digital stories. During the workshop, you will practise making a digital video using files provided. You do not need to provide your own audio files or images. Detailed workshop notes will be provided. More details are on this flyer. http://listeningtothepast.com.au//Create-a-video-workshop- Workshop bookings are on EventBrite. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/create-a-video-using-oral-h

07.01.2022 "Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home after the Holocaust" is a multimedia project that captures the initial experiences of child survivors who settled in the St. Urbain Ghetto, a neighbourhood known today as the Mile End or the Plateau. A historical audio tour as well as online videos detail what it was like for these children to arrive to a new country alone or with surviving family members, build relationships, deal with adversity and discrimination, search for joy, and simply move on. http://www.refugeeboulevard.ca/

06.01.2022 Don't forget the 'Chat and Sip' all things about Oral History, online tomorrow night. Check the link from the earlier post... hope to chat with you.

05.01.2022 Researching soldier settlements and your family members who lived in them? Why not enrol in this activity with State Records?

04.01.2022 Fascinating seminar topic from the State Library of Queensland.

04.01.2022 Listen to a fascinating recorded presentation by Mary Marshall Clark from Columbia University. "Oral history, a form of social inquiry that connects the humanities and the social sciences in the academy and creates new understandings in the public world, is a portal through which we can enter another’s life story, individually or communally. Never is this kind of embodied meaning-making through listening more important than in times of social and cultural crisis, where histor...ical norms fail to explain extraordinary events and ways of life that are interrupted. In this webinar we will reflect on two oral history projects focused on disruptive events that challenged public meaning and reconstructed public narratives. The September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project was initiated four days after the events of 9/11, and collecting 900 hours of testimony in diverse communities throughout New York City in three years, using a longitudinal frame. In March 2020, the project team gathered again to develop The Covid-19 Narrative and Memory Archive, interviewing over 200 people in New York City three times each over 18 months, focusing on low-income, immigrant communities, and front-line workers in the current crisis. Conducting this work in the midst of a public pandemic of racism, inflects it with even greater meaning.This webinar will focus on the ways in which oral history has the ability to enable deep reflection on sustaining humanitarian dialogues in the face of tremendous social isolation and despair." See more

03.01.2022 One of the benefits of 2020 has been the number of wonderful talks, workshops, podcasts and events that we have been able to access online. And here's another one if you are up early enough...don't forget this will be 6.30am on Thursday 10th in Adelaide.

02.01.2022 Chat and Sip Covid-19 has certainly changed the way we do things. Initially the SA/NT committee had planned to hold these informal ‘Fireside Chats' at various locations north and south of the city every 6-7 weeks. Now, and in keeping with this concept the face-to-face chats has morphed in to on online ‘Chat and Sip'. Chat about oral history while sipping your favourite brew, at home, the office or wherever you happen to be. ... The idea is that you can join in, just listen, ask questions, talk about a project, solve problems, or catch up on what is happening in the world of oral history. When: Third Tuesday of every second Month starting on Tuesday August 18th at 1830 (6.30pm SA/NT time) How: It is a Zoom link that you can access here: Chat and Sip https://unisa.zoom.us/j/2385377149 Zoom: If you haven’t used it previously is a simple video conferencing option. You do not need any special software, an it works with Apple or Android hardware, phones, iPads, computers or laptops. Format: The session, which will run for approximately an hour to 90 minutes depending on interest, is unscripted. You can come in and leave when you wish. There is no formal agenda, just a brief introduction and then open to whatever points of interest you wish to bring up. Who can join in: Anyone who has an interest in oral history. Any questions or problems please contact: David Sweet at [email protected]

02.01.2022 Take a look at some fabulous oral history projects via Oral History Australia - Victoria.

02.01.2022 Another fascinating Canadian project.

02.01.2022 Online ‘Chat and Sip' - this Tuesday evening! Please join us. The face-to-face chats we planned for 2020 have become online ‘Chat and Sip' sessions. Chat about oral history while sipping your favourite brew, at home, in the office, or wherever you happen to be. ... Join in, just listen, ask questions, talk about a project, solve problems, or catch up on what is happening in the world of oral history. When: Tuesday November 3 commencing at 1830 (6.30pm) South Australian Summer time1730 NT time How: via Zoom link that you can access here: Chat and Sip https://unisa.zoom.us/j/2385377149 Zoom: If you haven’t used it previously, it is a simple video-conferencing option. You do not need any special software, and it works with Apple or Android hardware, smart-phones, iPads, Apple and Windows computers or laptops. A password should not be necessary. Format: The session, which will run for approximately an hour to 90 minutes depending on interest, is unscripted. You can come in and leave when you wish. There is no formal agenda, just a brief introduction and then open to whatever points of interest you wish to bring up. Who can join in: Anyone who has an interest in oral history. Any questions or problems please contact: David Sweet at [email protected]

02.01.2022 OHA SA/NT Treasurer Sally Stephenson's next online workshop is now open for enrolments. Follow the link below to register via Eventbrite. Transcribing Oral History Workshop (online) Friday 30 October, 2020.... Time: 10:30am-1:30pm (ACT, NSW, Vic, Tas); 10am-1pm (SA); 9:30- 12:30 (Qld); 9am - 12noon (NT); 7:30am - 10:30am (WA) This hands-on workshop will cover: -the importance of transcribing oral history interviews, and the consequences of inaccurate transcripts -the difference between spoken and written English and its significance for transcripts -setting out transcripts -transcription dilemmas and how to deal with them -hints for improving the value of transcripts useful software -is voice recognition software a reasonable substitute? -ideas for using oral history transcripts All interview files for the workshop are provided. You do not need to have your own oral history interview files to be able to participate in the workshop. Detailed workshop notes will be provided. Workshop bookings are on EventBrite. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/transcribing-oral-history-w