New Ways With Oral History

30 / 03 / 2011 – 31 / 05 / 2011

 

In collaboration with the Oral History Association of Australia and the Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts, Australian National University.

 

Day One: The Use and Abuse of Oral Histories

 

When: Friday 13 May, 9.30am – 4.45pm

Where: Royal Australian Historical Society, History House, 133 Macquarie St Sydney 2000

 

Inspiring presentations will focus on the use of oral history in creatively capturing and recording our past. Themes to be covered include: creating content, working critically and ethically; preserving oral histories; challenges of using oral histories in interpretation; educational potential.

 

Presenters include Kevin Bradley, Curator, Oral History and Folklore and Director, Sound Preservation, National Library of Australia and Associate Professor Paula Hamilton, Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney and Dr Ian Hoskins, North Sydney Council Historian.

 

9.30-11am Creating, using and preserving oral histories-issues and challenges

 

Associate Professor Paula Hamilton, Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney

 

Paula Hamilton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Technology in Sydney and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History. Her specialist areas of research include cultural history and memory studies, especially individual and public memory; oral history and biography. She has conducted consultancies and research with museums, including Powerhouse, Australian Museum and National Museum of Australia. She has strong links with the oral history community, indicative of her long-term interest in cultural memory, particularly collective remembering through oral narratives. Paula has written extensively on oral history, including co-editing a publication with Linda Shopes for Temple University Press: Oral History and Public Memories (2008).

 

Kevin Bradley, Curator, Oral History and Folklore & Director, Sound Preservation, National Library of Australia

 

Kevin Bradley is Curator of Oral History and Folklore and Director of Sound Preservation at the National Library of Australia. He is a member of the UNESCO Memory of the World Sub Committee on Technology (MoW SCoT).  He has been manager of the National Library’s digital preservation program and has been the Sustainability Advisor for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.  He has been a sound engineer for more than 30 years, and first worked with the Library’s Oral History and Folklore collection in 1983.  He is currently involved in a number of projects including the “Generations” ARC funded oral history project.

 

11:15 -12:00pm  Panel discussion

 

12:00 -1.30pm  To be advised

 

2:00 - 4:00pm Inspiring presentations on the practice of using oral history in museum and heritage interpretation

 

4:00 - 4.45pm Discussion

 

 

 

Day Two:

Talking Objects: The Place of Objects in Our Remembered Experiences and Captured Memories

and

Oral History in the Digital Age (practical workshop on Oral History Theory and Practice)

 

When: Saturday 14 May,

Where: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St Sydney

 

10.00am – 12.30pm Talking Objects: The Place of Objects in our Remembered Experiences

 

Janis Wilton OAM, Associate Professor in History, University of New England. 

 

Janis’ teaching and research profile includes oral history and work with history and museums.   Janis will talk about the place of objects in our remembered and shared experiences:  the memories they evoke and the doors they open.  She will explore some of the different ways in which objects feature in oral history interviews and shape how objects are interpreted and presented both within museums and galleries and within our families.

 

Louise Darmody

 

Louise has turned her husband’s near death experience into a movie, “Many Hands Make Mike Work”.  Louise will show her thirteen minute documentary film and discuss the ways oral historians change lives.   

 

1.15pm – 4.45pm Capturing Memories – Oral History in the Digital Age

 

Trish Levido

 

Trish presents a digital oral history workshop building on the OHAA Oral History Handbook (available for purchase at the seminar $20)    Other topics include choosing and using digital equipment; appropriate recording standards and preservation; and a practical session recording an oral history interview; using a digital recorder; downloading recordings to laptop; editing with Audacity; saving and burning recordings to disc.

 

 

Special Two Day Event Offer 

 

Cost:    Full Rate  $140               Concession:    $120

 

To attend download the registration form

 

Registration Closes: 11 May 2011

 

If you wish to attend day one only please click here

 

If you wish to attend day two only please book through State Library Bookings Tel.9273.1770   or email: bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au 

 

Please note: This program is subject to change.

 

Enquiries to:  Suzanne Bravery, General Manager, Programs and Services, Museums and Galleries NSW ph: 9358.1760

email: suzanneb@mgnsw.org.au

 

 

 

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