INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION

 

CURRENT COUNCIL

2012-2014

 

President

Ana María de la O Castellanos (México)

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Vice-president

Andrea Casa Nova Maia (Brazil)

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Professor and researcher in the Doctoral Program in Social History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, with a focus on urban history research, and history and memory of workers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil.

She received her doctoral degree in social and cultural history from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Her numerous published articles and books on Oral History include "APUBH - 20 anos. História Oral do Movimento Docente da UFMG (APUBH-20 years. An Oral History of the teacher´s Unions from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil, 1998),  "Encontros e Despedidas - História oral de Ferrovias e Ferroviários de Minas (Meetings and Farewells - Oral History of Railroad workers of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Ed. Argvmentum, 2009), Nos Trilhos do Tempo - memória ferroviária de Pedro Leopoldo (In Trails of Time - Railroad memories of Pedro Leopoldo, Mazza, 2003), Ética e Imagem, (Ethics and Images, Ed. C/Arte, 2010) and Outras Histórias - Ensaios em História Social (Other histories - Essays on Social History, Ed. Ponteio, 2012).

Currently she holds a Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation´s Senior Research Fellowship and she's the Vice-Director of the Graduated Social History Program of the UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

More Information at: www.imam.historia.ufrj.br and riocidadesubmersa.blogspot.com.br

 

 

Helen Klaebe (Australia)

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Assistant Dean, Research, Commercialisation and External Relations in the Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries Faculty.

She is also a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage project Digital Storytelling and co creative media: the role of community arts and media in propagating and coordinating population- wide creative practice (LP110100127). This work develops on from her work examining new approaches to participatory public history using multi art form storytelling strategies to engage the community with their local history, and her previous ARC Linkage Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning (LP0882274) 2008-2010.

Her public history work pioneered new development methods of using digital storytelling in community history projects. Other research contributions are in creative writing, transmedia storytelling and the evaluation of narrative-driven arts based festivals and events, based on her 2011-12 Queensland Smithsonian Fellowship, undertaken at the Center for Folklike and Cultural Heritage in Washington DC.  Klaebe regularly consults as a public historian particularly focusing on engaging communities, and regularly designs and manages co-creative media workshops for a range of commercial and public sector organisations.

She is also the Editor of IOHA’s bilingual peer reviewed journal, Words & Silences.

Her publications can be accessed at:http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Klaebe,_Helen.html

 

 

Past President

Miroslav Vanek (Czech Republic)

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Director of the Oral History Center and a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is past president of International Oral History Association (2010–2012) and honored President of the Czech Oral History Association (since 2013). Since 2005 he lectures at the Charles University in Prague, at Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Humanities.

He specializes in modern Czech history, primarily the period of Czechoslovak socialism, with special attention to the young generation under socialism including student and ecological movements, dissidents, political communist elites, workers, as well as the oral history method.

He is an author of several books like Orální historie ve výzkumu soudobých dějin. (The method of oral history in contemporary history research.) Praha, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2004; Vítězové? Poražení? Politické elity a disent v období tzv. normalizace. Životopisná interview. (Winners? Vaquished? Political elites and dissent during the period of the so-called Normalization - Historical Interviews. 2. volumes. Praha 2005; Mocní bezmocní a Bezmocní mocní. Politické elity a disent v období tzv. normalizace. Interpretační studie životopisných interview. (The Helplessness of the Powerful Ones and the Power of the Helpless Ones: Political elites and dissent during the period of the so-called Normalization – Interpretation essays of biographical interviews.) Praha 2006; O orální historii s jejími zakladateli a protagonisty. (About Oral History with it´s founders and protagonist.) Ústav pro soudobé dějiny, Praha 2008; Obyčejní lidé...?! Pohled do života tzv. mlčící většiny. Životopisná vyprávění příslušníků dělnických profesí a inteligence. (The ordinary people...?! An insight into the lives of "silent majority". Life-stories of manual workers and intelligentsia.) Praha : Academia, 2009; Byl to jenom rock´n´roll? Hudební alternativa v komunistickém Československu 1956–1989. (It was only rock´n´roll…? Music Alternative in Communist Czechoslovakia 1956–1989) Praha 2010; Třetí strana trojúhelníku. Teorie a praxe orální historie. (The Third Side of a Triangle. The Theory and Practice of Oral History) Praha 2011.

 

 

Council Members and Regional Representation

 

• South America

Ligia Maria Pereira (Brazil)

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Liliana Barela (Argentina)

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• North America

Mark A. Cave (USA)

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Armando Sandoval Pierres (México)

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• Europe

David Beorlegi (España)

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Pavel Mucke (Czech Republic)

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Studied at several universities (Ostrava, Paris IV, Olomouc – M.A. in 2004, Prague – PhDr. in 2005; Ph.D. in 2009). He is a researcher at the Oral History Center, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, an assistant professor at the Department of Oral History and Contemporary History, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.

In 2012, he was elected as president of the Czech Oral History Association. He is the author of several articles and co-author of the methodological books Naslouchat hlasům paměti: teoretické a praktické aspekty orální historie [Listening to the Voices of Memory: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Oral History] Praha 2007, 224 p. (with Miroslav Vaněk and Hana Pelikánová) and Třetí strana trojúhelníku. Teorie a praxe orální historie. [The Third Side of a Triangle. The Theory and Practice of Oral History] Praha 2011, 296 p. (with Miroslav Vaněk). He specializes in modern and contemporary history and oral history and is interested in research into the relationship between history and memory.

• Africa

Christina Landman (South Africa)

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• Oceania

Caren Fox (New Zeland)

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• Asia

Indira Chowdhury (India)

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Council Secretary

 

 

Treasurer

Almut Leh (Germany)

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Dr. Almut Leh, is scientific researcher at the "Institute for History and Biography" since 1994 and responsible for the archive “German Memory”, co-editor of "BIOS – Journal for Biographical Research, Oral History and Life Course Analysis”, and member of the council of the International Oral History Association as treasurer since 2000.

She published on German history of the 20th century, methodology and archiving of oral history.

 

 

 

 

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