Are you coming to the Oral History Association of Australia Conference?

This years theme is Communities of Memory as seen but the some of the topics to be considered.

• Memory and Catastrophe
• Memory Work for Human Rights
• Indigenous Memory Place
• Community, Memory
• Communities of Identity
• Contested Communities
• Communities of Gender and Sexuality
• Migrants and Refugees
• Communities of Work or Leisure
• Activist Communities
• War Memories
• Generational Communities
• Theories of Collective and Community Memory
• New Approaches to Recording Lives
• New Technologies for Documenting Memory and History
• Memory Work in Creative and Fictional Writing
• Ethical Issues in Memory Work
• Training Community Oral Historians

More information is available at the organisers site.

Along with a range of speakers will be Helen Klaebe who we heard from on a recent episode on, Saying Sorry in the 21st Century: Public Apologies in a Digital World.

If you intend to be at the national oral history conference at the State Library of Victoria, over the week-end of Friday 7 to Sunday 9 October come and say hello, I love to meet you.

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