Every two years Oral History Australia stages a conference in partnership with one of its state associations. The most recent conference held in partnership with Oral History Tasmania was in 2022.
The conference had originally been planned for 2021, but the COVID pandemic intervened and the conference was delayed for 12 months in the hope that it could be an in-person conference.
Ultimately the conference was held on Friday 14, Saturday 15 and the morning of Sunday 16 October at the Tramsheds Function Centre in historic Launceston, Tasmania. Oral history training workshops were held on Thursday 13 October, and post-conference tours on the afternoon of Sunday 16 October.
Oral History Tasmania and Oral History Australia partnered with the College of the Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania and Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
2022 Conference theme
The title Oral History in Troubling Times: Opportunities and Challenges reflected the era of uncertainty amid a global pandemic and extreme occurrences of drought, bushfire and floods.
The theme invited reflections on the challenges and issues of undertaking oral history in troubling times, and to consider how oral history could illuminate the lived experience of troubling times both in the past and in our contemporary world.
