If you are a current member of OHA SA/NT and are interested in standing for the committee for 2021-2022, please contact Annmarie Reid via email at presidentohasant@gmail.com to let her know BEFORE Monday 2 August. A number of members have stated verbally that they would like to join the committee but we need to be advised in writing so that
Registrations for the 2021 OHA Biennial Conference are now open, with early bird rates available until Sunday 12 September. The conference will be held from 14-16 October 2021 in Launceston, Tasmania. The theme is ‘Oral History in Troubling Times: Opportunities and Challenges’. Book now Bookings are via Eventbrite. The registration fee includes morning & afternoon teas and lunches on Friday
The next OHA Biennial Conference will be held in Launceston, Tasmania from 14-16 October 2021. Deadline for conference submissions extended to 1 April 2021. The conference theme is Oral History in Troubling Times: Challenges and Opportunities. The conference theme invites you to reflect on the challenges and issues of undertaking oral history in troubling times, and to consider how oral
Recording of 40th anniversary lecture now available The lecture by Professor Alistair Thomson – Forty Years On: The Transformations of Oral History – given last September is now available for you to listen to here. Professor Thomson, the current president of Oral History Australia, reflected on the transformations of oral history across the last 40 years, in Australia and abroad.
Volunteer opportunity at the State Library of SA Are you someone with an eye – and ear – for detail? We are trialling some software over the next 3 months to see if it will help us to provide time-coded transcripts of interviews in the J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection. If you (or someone you know): can spend 3
Interviewees wanted for oral history project on Holden Historians at the University of Adelaide and Monash University are searching for former Holden employees to interview about their working experiences for an oral history project to be housed at the National Library of Australia. Holden ceased manufacturing vehicles in Australia at the end of 2017, ending more than a century of