
Oral History Tasmania
(OHT) is a volunteer-run organisation dedicated to promoting the ethical practice of oral history to all those interested, from family and community historians to academics and people involved in the media.We encourage everyone to learn the best way of doing oral history and offer workshops and seminars along with equipment hire and scholarships to national conferences. OHT is a member of Oral History Australia.
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Upcoming events
May 2025
02mayAll DayGraduate Oral History IntensiveOHV 4-day programTRAINING
Event Details
Four-day online course, 2-3 May and 16-17 May 2025, offered by Oral History Victoria.Taught by Carla Pascoe Leahy, Sarah Rood and Alistair Thomson (for trainer profiles – see
Event Details
Four-day online course, 2-3 May and 16-17 May 2025, offered by Oral History Victoria.
Taught by Carla Pascoe Leahy, Sarah Rood and Alistair Thomson (for trainer profiles – see https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-training-graduate-oral-history-intensive)
Are you a PhD, Masters or Honours student, or a post-doc, about to start a research project using oral history – and need training to get you on the right track? Perhaps you’ve
already started a graduate oral history project and want advice and support? You may be a historian, or you work in another social science or humanities discipline that uses life story interviews. This four-day, online training course could be just what you need.
In May 2025, three of Australia’s leading oral historians, in partnership with Oral History Victoria, are teaching this popular oral history intensive course aimed at university
research students. We will teach you how to plan an oral history project and apply for ethics approval. You’ll learn how to create excellent interviews and document the
recordings for use in research. We’ll explore approaches to analysing interviews and interpreting memories. And we’ll consider how to write a thesis using oral history and to
create other types of oral history productions.
You will be active participants in the teaching and learning: reading a selection of key texts, bringing examples and issues from you own research, workshopping issues with the group, conducting practice interviews, discussing interview extracts from each participant, and developing a peer support group of graduate oral history researchers from around Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
Each day school will be taught online via Zoom, from 9.30am-4pm Australian Eastern Standard time. The course will be limited to 18 participants.
Feedback from participants in this course in 2024:
“Many thanks for a terrific 4 days from the three of you from OHV … so valuable in redirecting and redrafting my research project. Initially I had doubts about the full value of a
4 day zoom meet with 14 or 17 post grads, but it exceeded all expectations.”
“It was terrific to have access to such skilled teachers/facilitators and to come together with other graduate students and to receive such a vast array of helpful resources.”
“I was very happy with the course – expert presenters who were very respectful of/responsive to the participants, great management with everything running on time, different formats to maintain interest, relevant/engaging activities especially listening to everyone’s interview extracts.”
“Al, Carla and Sarah, you made such a warm and welcoming environment! You were all engaging, and passionate and held space for everyone’s opinions and thoughts. Thank you!”
Course outline
Day 1 Friday 2 May – Planning Your Oral History Project & Seeking Ethics Approval
Day 2 Saturday 3 May – Creating & Documenting Oral History Interviews
(fortnight break while participants conduct practice interviews)
Day 3 Friday 16 May – Interpreting Oral Histories
Day 4 Saturday 17 May – Making (Oral) Histories in Writing and other Media
Course fees:
$500 for Oral History Victoria and Oral History Australia members
$750 non-members
We anticipate participants will draw on funds from their own or departmental graduate research budgets. For students without access to research funds, bursaries might be
available from state and territory oral history associations.
Registration via https://events.humanitix.com/ohv-training-graduate-oral-history-intensive
OHV is offering up to four bursaries to assist with the cost of registering for this training for students unable to source support from their academic institution. For further details of the terms and conditions and the application form, please see the Graduate Training Programme Student Bursary Policy and Selection Criteria. Bursary Applications must be submitted by midnight on the 13th April, 2025.
Download the form here.
Contact: for further information and to discuss the course, please contact: Alistair.Thomson@monash.edu
Virtual Event Details
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Time
2 May 2025 All Day(GMT+10:00)
Organizer
24mayAll DayOHT Oral history workshopGlenorchy
Event Details
Oral History Tasmania will hold an oral history workshop on Saturday 24 May 2025, from 10.00 am to 4.45 pm at Room 2, Glenorchy Library, 4 Terry St.The workshop will
Event Details
Oral History Tasmania will hold an oral history workshop on Saturday 24 May 2025, from 10.00 am to 4.45 pm at Room 2, Glenorchy Library, 4 Terry St.
The workshop will be conducted by Jill Cassidy of Oral History Tasmania and will cover all aspects of oral history practice. Topics include: interview technique, possible pitfalls, use of digital recorder, ethics, transcription & publication. Participants will be able to listen to interview excerpts and do practice interviews. Oral History Tasmania’s digital recorder, available for members to hire, will be demonstrated. Numbers are strictly limited and prior registration is essential. Registration will open early in 2025.
Please bring a means of recording if possible and a notepad and pen. The recording device could be a phone or tablet.
Registration is now open online via Humanitix – https://events.humanitix.com/oral-history-workshop.
Time
24 May 2025 All Day(GMT+10:00)
Location
Glenorchy Library
4 Terry Street
Organizer
June 2025
06junAll Day07OHS annual conference 2025Whose Voices?
Event Details
The Oral History Society, United Kingdom, in partnership with the Scottish Oral History Centre, will hold its 2025 annual conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 6-7 June 2025.The
Event Details
The Oral History Society, United Kingdom, in partnership with the Scottish Oral History Centre, will hold its 2025 annual conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 6-7 June 2025.
The theme is ‘Whose Voices?‘.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Prof Lynn Abrams and plenary discussions on:
- Whose Voices – views from across the generations in oral history
- Whose Voices are we collecting now? Challenges, opportunities and silences.
To access the Call for Papers (deadline extended to 23 January 2025) and further information about the conference go to: https://www.ohs.org.uk/conferences/.
Time
6 June 2025 - 7 June 2025 (All Day)(GMT+01:00)
Location
University of Strathclyde
Organizer
30junAll Day03jul2025 AHA ConferenceLooking up
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.The AHA 2025
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.
The AHA 2025 annual conference will chaired by Ben Jones (CQU) and Koen Stapelbroek (JCU).
For more information go to the conference website – https://www.jcu.edu.au/events/2025/june/australian-historical-association-conference.
Time
30 June 2025 - 3 July 2025 (All Day)(GMT+10:00)
July 2025
30junAll Day03jul2025 AHA ConferenceLooking up
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.The AHA 2025
Event Details
The AHA Executive has advised the next annual AHA Conference will be held in Townsville from Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July 2025. Please save the dates.
The AHA 2025 annual conference will chaired by Ben Jones (CQU) and Koen Stapelbroek (JCU).
For more information go to the conference website – https://www.jcu.edu.au/events/2025/june/australian-historical-association-conference.
Time
30 June 2025 - 3 July 2025 (All Day)(GMT+10:00)
September 2025
16sepAll Day19IOHA Conference 2025Re-Thinking Oral History
Event Details
The 23rd International Oral History Association (IOHA) Conference is scheduled for Kraków, Poland from 16-19 September 2025.The theme of the conference is Re-Thinking Oral History.Biennial conferences of the International Oral
Event Details
The 23rd International Oral History Association (IOHA) Conference is scheduled for Kraków, Poland from 16-19 September 2025.
The theme of the conference is Re-Thinking Oral History.
Biennial conferences of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) allow for reviewing the global conditions and problems of oral history, regardless of the actual conference theme. This time, however, the organizers of the 23rd IOHA Conference call on oral historians worldwide to consciously rethink the idea and practice of their discipline.
Oral history today faces both old and new challenges with long-lasting and unpredictable consequences: the crisis of liberal democracy, growing tensions in international politics, climate change with its devastating outcomes on human life, increasing inequalities, wars, and mass migrations. All of the foregoing not only affect the conditions in which oral history is made, but also compels us to rethink its very aim. For Central and Eastern Europe, the full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine beginning in February 2022 and its consequences are an especially painful reminder of that. Though oral history was, and still is a part of history, it has always been conscious of the responsibility (oral) history has for the current society. Aware of that mission, we encourage the global oral history community to return to the core questions of our practice: what kind of histories should we tell and pass on to the current and future generation
Find out more about the conference at: https://ioha2025.conference.pl/.
See the Call for Papers – https://ioha2025.conference.pl/en/call-for-papers. The deadline for proposal submissions was 31 August 2024.
Time
16 September 2025 - 19 September 2025 (All Day)(GMT+02:00)
Location
Kraków
Latest blog post
2024 Conference Report
Report on the 2024 Oral History Australia Biennial Conference held in Melbourne in October 2024.