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Deadline for proposals |
July 10, 2009. |
Acceptance or rejection of proposals |
October 31, 2009. |
Receipt of papers for publication on conference CD Rom: |
February 28, 2010. |
DEADLINE ACCEPTANCE SHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS |
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 |
Notification of award |
December 5, 2009 |
CONTACTS
If you have questions or would like advice from an IOHA Council member about a
conference proposal, you may contact your regional representative as follows:
Africa: Radikobo Ntsimane (South Africa) - ntsimaner@ukzn.ac.za
Asia: Tineke Jansen (UK/China) - elintiya@mac.com
Europe: Mirek Vanek (Check Republic) - vanek@usd.cas.cz
Miren Llona (Spain) miren.llona@ehu.es
South America: Pablo Pozzi (Argentina) - ppozzi@arnet.com.ar
Antonio Montenegro (Brazil)- antoniomontenegr@hotmail.com
North America: Alexander Freund (Canadá) - a.freund@uwinnipeg.ca
Calinda Lee (EUA) - calinda.lee@emory.edu
Juan Gutiérrez (EUA/Mexico) - juan_gutierrez@csumb.edu
Oceania: Megan Hutching (New Zealand) - meganhutching@hotmail.com
To contact the Conference organizers in Prague, please email or write to:
Oral History Center. Institute of Contemporary History
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Vlašská 9 118 40 Praha (Prague) Czech Republic
Pavel Mücke mucke@usd.cas.cz
FRANCE
International and Interdisciplinary Symposium entitled “Spaces and memories: actions and interactions” (1989-2009)”October 15-17 2009
Venue: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Université de Limoges) – Center for Memory (Oradour-sur-Glane). Languages: French, English and Spanish
This international and interdisciplinary symposium is part of the wide crossroads linking space and memory. Within a comparative dynamics on the one hand we analyze the actions carried out by different organisms and institutions to mark space with the footprint of memory. On the other hand, we also aim to study the actions taken to remove traces of the past. Efforts will also be made to analyze all types of interactions between history and memory: how the memory of certain events has indelibly marked certain areas or created spaces to become receptacles and narrators of memory. The objective is to favour significant dynamics over the past two decades, since the fall of the Berlin Wall until the present day.
Proposed papers include the following blocks:
- Centers of memory: mediators of history and memory.
- Landscape and memory, or the staging of history. Refurbishment of parks and gardens dedicated to memory.
- The city as a memory receptacle, from the naming of monuments and including the safeguarding or destruction of historical heritage.
- Forgotten Spaces: transformation and disappearance of the traces of the past
Publication of the call for papers: 15 January 2009
Submission of abstracts: 15 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009
Publication of the final agenda: 30 September 2009
Symposium Dates: October 15-17 2009
Jesús Alonso jesus.alonso@unilim.fr
Research Team « Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles » (EA 1087)
Université de Limoges
ITALY
Second Annual Meeting of the Italian Oral History Association, Memory, work and labor Padova, May 14-15, 2009
Call for papers
The Second Annual Meeting of the Italian Oral History Association will seek new points of view and new critical debates on the themes of work and labor. The history of work and labor is often represented along a one-directional paradigm of modernization and Fordism: from craft to factory, from homestead to industry, from occasional and temporary to full-time and permanent jobs. The emphasis on the factory has often led to underestimating the complexity of a social space in which huge industrial establishments coexisted with a wide range of small firms and family enterprises. Some of the latter suffered from a nearly irreversible crisis in the 1960s and 1970s, to resurface recently, often in radically changed form and shape, while the Fordist paradigm was being made obsolete in a capitalistic strategy based on information technology, flexibility of production, globalization of markets, social and economic deregulation. Important sectors of the economy grew on the basis of unstable relationships and widening informal networks bordering on illegality.
Through the collection and application of oral sources, the meeting will study the role of work, in its manifold forms and organizations, in post-World War II Italian society, focusing on individual and group identities and on subjective perceptions of memory. Along with the experience of wage earners, in order to understand the different aspects of a very complex reality, we also plan to investigate the point of view of management and entrepreneurs, focusing especially on the experiences of those small or medium enterprises that can often be understood (beyond the merely quantitative available data) through the use of oral sources.
The conference is also open to international contributions and comparative analyzes.
Proposals – in the form of abstracts of no more that 500 words – ought to be received by March 20, 2009 at the following e-mail address: aiso.convegno2009@gmail.com. The list of speakers will be released by the end of March. Abstracts of significant proposals that cold not be included due to time considerations will also be circulated among participants and discussed in the final round table. The contributions will be held in Italian, French or English.
Call for videos: “Telling the story of work”
Given the increasing role of video in oral history research, a series of video essays will also be included in the Second AISO annual meeting. Videos, of no more than 30 minutes length, will concern the history and memory of work and labor as described in the call for papers. Only videos produced in the last three years will be considered. An award will be granted to the three best videos presented in the meeting; they will be circulated by AISO through institutions, universities and schools.
Video essays must be mailed before March 30, to the attention of AISO, c/o Ass.cult. Circolo Gianni Bosio, Via Di S. Ambrogio, 4, 00186 Roma, tel. 06-68135642. For information, please contact Vanessa Roghi (vanessa.roghi@gmail.com).
Gabriella Gribaudi, AISO President
MEXICO
The Labyrinth of Memory: An Approach to Oral History
Organized by the Laboratory of Oral History, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Guanajuato.
Coordinator of the Laboratory. Ada Marina Lara Meza.
Workshop Coordinator Ruth Villegas Yolanda Atilano.
Aimed at: All those interested in oral history as a tool for researching oral and video recorded testimonies of people who have marked the political, economic and social history of the state of Guanajuato and have forged its identity. This conference encourages specialists in the humanities such as history, sociology, anthropology, psychology and communication to attend.
Objectives: This conference seeks to understand Oral History through its theoretical and methodological tenets, highlighting its importance as a tool for reconstructing the past. The conference also wishes to examine technical aspects of Oral History, such as recording and archiving audio and video recordings.
Conference Office: Central State Library Wigberto Moreno Jiménez.
Dates: 27, 28 and 29 April
Ada Marina Lara Meza ada@quijote.com.mx
Ruth Villegas Yolanda Atilano ruth.atilano@gmail.com
Universidad de Guanajuato
MEXICO
8th International Congress of Oral History "Oral History and Interdisciplinary Approaches: Challenges and Prospects"
University of Colima
Organizers: Faculty of Arts and Communication and Culture program of the University Center for Social Research (CUIS)
From September 9-11, 2009
Please send abstracts and accepted papers prior to the deadlines indicated above to Karla Y. Covarrubias Cuéllar (karlacuis@gmail.com) or Cuevas and Ana Josefina Hernández (ajcuevas@ucol.mx)
PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
Papers should be around 10 pages including bibliography. They should be formatted in Arial font
size 10 pts with 1.5 line spacing. Bibliography and notes should follow APA guidelines.
CONGRESS REGISTRATION FEE
a) Researchers and faculty speakers: 1,000 pesos
b) University students (from any level) and AMHO members not presenting: 500.00 pesos m/n
c) AMHO members presenting papers: 700.00 pesos m/n (provided they have submitted their 2009 quota of 500.00 pesos m/n. This amount may be paid the publication of this call for papers until 28 February, in accordance with September 2007 AMHO General Assembly held at the University of Guanajuato.
d) Attendance at the conference (researchers, teachers and students of any grade): $ 500.00 m/n
IMPORTANT:
1) The date of registration for speakers should be no later than June 30, 2009.
2) The fee as a speaker or an assistant to the conference and the annual quota AMHO partners should be made to the following bank account:
Financial institution: Banco Banorte
Number and name of the branch: 1601 (Colima, Country Plaza)
Account No.: 004915662821377630
After the registration payment is completed, please send a copy of the deposit receipt to the following FAX number (312) 31 6 11 27 (University Center for Social research, CUIS the U. of C.). Alternatively, the document may be scanned and e-mailed to Karla Y. Covarrubias Cuéllar, AMHO treasurer: karlacuis@gmail.com and Isela Guadalupe Uribe Alvarado scholar CUIS: iselauribe@gmail.com
The Mexican Association of Oral History (AMHO)
UNITED STATES
2009 OHA Annual Meeting Moving Beyond the Interview October, 14-18, 2009, Louisville Kentucky
The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and presentations for its 2009 annual meeting to be held October 14-18, 2009, at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Conference planning, now underway, promises an exciting meeting, one in which we hope to create new opportunities for conversation.
OHA Program Committees often choose a focal theme for the annual meeting from among the many dimensions of oral history practice. Our approach for 2009 is a bit different: we identify a broader umbrella under which we hope the meeting, structurally and substantively, can put many of these dimensions in productive dialogue with each other.
Collecting and preserving stories via interviews long has been the central focus of oral history method and practice. The 2009 Annual Meeting celebrates this basic unit of our field, the interview, by placing it within a circle of critical issues necessarily encountered in working with oral histories—in “doing something” with the materials oral historians collect.
Too often relegated to the methodological sidelines, these include technological, philosophical, analytical, archival, collaborative, ethical, educational, and public aspects of working with oral history interviews.
Interviews are always conducted within a social/political context, and oral history interviews demand sensitive collaboration beginning with the social contract between interviewer and interviewee. But this requirement extends well beyond the interview to the processes and questions surrounding archives and use, access and presentation, analysis and exposition, ethics and morality, and teaching, research, and public engagement. Oral history interviews in use are not static documents but have human dimension, a quality enhanced by interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. Oral history is both process and product; it is human interaction and human voice; it is the “raw” interview and the “cooked” documentary and everything in-between.
It is on that in-between ground that the Program Committee hopes to center the Annual Meeting’s discussion: How do we make an oral history into History? How do we transform oral history into exhibits, web-sites, multi-media, and public programming? How do we incorporate oral history into research, writing, documentary and community settings, applications fostered by everything from technological advances to the changing nature of humanities and community research? And how do these concerns alter understandings of the method and meanings of oral history itself?
The Program Committee especially welcomes proposals exploring this middle ground of engaged use from a variety of vantages and in a variety of modes. We invite proposals from individuals and panels, as well as for roundtables, performances, listening and viewing sessions, workshops, and poster sessions. We especially encourage presentations that include audio, transcription, exhibitions, video, and Internet.
The Program Committee invites presenters themselves to help shape the conference focus and structure through early submission. We propose a rolling submission deadline, from November 5, 2008, to March 6, 2009. Starting in November, we will begin to structure the meeting around conversations emerging in the proposals, so as to create unique spaces for discussion across and beyond the program’s individual sessions. Our goal is to enhance what happens beyond the sessions or meeting rooms, including those invaluable conversations in the hallways and happy hours.
OHA is open to proposals from the variety of fields traditionally represented in our meetings, such as folklore, history, sociology, anthropology, communications, American studies, political science, and urban studies. In recognition of the important work taking place outside the United States , we also hope to see a significant international presence at the meeting. And, as always, OHA welcomes proposals from independent scholars, community activists and organizers, archivists, librarians, museum curators, web designers, documentary producers, media artists, ethnographers, public historians, and all practitioners whose work is especially relevant to this meeting’s interest in “moving beyond the interview.”
Proposal format: For full sessions, submit a title, a session abstract of not more than two pages, and a one-page vita or resume for each participant. For individual proposals, submit a one-page abstract and a one-page vita or resume of the presenter. Each submission must be accompanied by a cover sheet, which can be downloaded.
All proposals must be submitted via Email. The cover Sheet and all proposal documents must be combined into one Attachment in Microsoft WORD format. Please do not send the documents in separate attachments. Send directly to : oha@dickinson.edu . Do not send proposals to the program chairs.
Should you not receive email confirmation by March 20, please contact the OHA office to make sure your email submission has been received.
Proposal queries may be directed to:
Alicia J. Rouverol, Independent Scholar, 2009 Program Co-Chair: ajrouver@earthlink.net
Mark Tebeau, Cleveland State University , 2009 Program Co-Chair: m.tebeau@csuohio.edu
Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo , SUNY, 2009-10 OHA President: mfrisch@buffalo.edu
For more information, contact:
Madelyn Campbell oha@dickinson.edu
Executive Secretary
Oral History Association Dickinson College , P. O. Box 1773
Carlisle , PA 17013
Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046
VENEZUELA
First International Oral History Forum On Oral History In Venezuela
(In preparation of the IV International Oral History Meeting) Valencia (Venezuela), 15, 16 and 17 October 2009.
University of Carabobo. COUNCIL Scientific and Humanistic Development (CDCH-UC). FACULTY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION (FACE-UC). Center for Research and Historical Studies (CIEH-FACE)
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will take place in Valencia, Venezuela between 15 and 17 October 2009 and will prepare the groundwork for the Fourth International Conference. Through this workshop, the following areas will be considered:
- Theory, method and research techniques in Oral History (particularly the issues that are the focus of research).
- Formal and informal educational experiences, in Oral History.
- Urban and demographic spaces
- Research issues in oral history in Venezuela; Current or completed research projects.
Prior to the deadline, applicants must submit an abstract of their paper not exceeding two hundred words. Please insure the author's name is included. Once the abstract is admitted, the complete paper of no more than 12 pages (including notes and bibliography) and formated in 12 point Times New Roman and 1.5 spacing. Please confirm reception. Both the abstract and paper should be sent to Raul M. Melendez and / or Jaime Ybarra Morán.
Email. raulmlndz@gmail.com revista.manongo@gmail.com
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Reception deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2009
- Publication of accepted papers. 15 July 2009.
- Reception deadline for papers. 30 August 2009.
REGISTRATION: Registration fees are the following:
Speakers • 120 BsF
Attendees 100 BsF
Please deposit payments in the name of Raul M. Melendez to account number. 01160026330007730853 at the BO.D. Both speakers and attendees must, as soon as possible, send payment details to the conference organizers.
Academic Committee:
Prof. (a) Jessy Romero Divo. Leadership. UC
Prof. Ulises Rojas. Academic Vice Chancellor.
Prof. Luis Torres. Dean. FACE-UC
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Raul M. Melendez (Coordinator).
Giannina Fusco (Executive Secretary)
Xiomara Rodriguez (Member)
Jaime M. Ybarra (Member)
Luis Hernandez (Member)
Carlos Cochiarella (Member)
José Gregorio Machado (Member)
ACADEMIC SUPPORT COMMITTEE: Dean Post-FACE
Director of Research FACE
VENEZUELA
First International Oral History Symposium: "Oral Archives, The Social Internet And Living Heritages," 1-2 July 2009
The Museum of Cultural Memory and Oral Andina (MUMCOA) will convene its First International Symposium on Oral History at the University of Los Andes on 1 and 2 July 2009.
Location: Simón Bolívar Chair, Faculty of Humanities and Education. Building A. 1st floor, Ave. Las Americas. Núcleo La Liria
Organizing Committee:
Niria Suárez. General Coordinator. (niriasuarez@gmail.com)
Prof. Justina Walls
Deysi Godoy. (deysigc21@hotmail.com)
Pablo Lara. (pablolara01@hotmail.com)
Nelly Parra Mercedes Becerra. (nellymer1968@yahoo.com)
Registration and reservations:
Students: 50 BsF.
Professionals: 70 BsF
Historical Studies Center "Carlos Emilio Muñoz Oraá. [Centro de Estudios Históricos “Carlos Emilio Muñoz Oraá”. Av. Universidad. Res. Los Caciques. Edif. Mara. Planta baja.]
Tel 58-274-2401818 / 2401819.
Deysi Godoy.
(deysigc21@hotmail.com)
Pablo Lara. pablolara01@hotmail.com
Nelly Mercedes Parra Becerra. nellymer1968@yahoo.com