Proposals are now being accepted from those wishing to present at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Tardanya/Adelaide, South Australia, on the lands of the Kaurna people, from 3-6 December. The deadline for submission is 11 May 2026.
The conference is being presented jointly by Oral History Australia and Oral History Australia SA/NT. The theme is the very timely ‘Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity’ and we are thrilled to have world-leading technology expert Doug Boyd as our keynote speaker.

Keynote speaker
Professor Doug Boyd PhD is the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd envisioned, designed and implemented the open source and free OHMS system, which synchronizes text with audio and video online. In 2019 Boyd received a Fulbright Scholars Research Grant to collaborate with the National Library of Australia on innovative access to online oral history. He is the author of Oral History: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
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