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The first-ever Winter School on Orality, Memory and Social Change in India hopes to make good some of that loss. To be held from November 6 to 15 at Centre for Public History, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, the course will ‘focus on the role played by oral history in documenting

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. launched its Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Oral History Project on the NTI website Sept. 19. The project features interviews with several people who were involved in various aspects of the NLCA negotiations over several decades, as well as a photographic history of the last several years. “This project presents very valuable historical

This month we will be highlighting Power and Democracy:  the many voices of Oral History.  The XVIII International Oral History Conference to be held 9-12 July, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.   Information about the conference can be found at https://2014iohacongress.wordpress.com/.  Please note that the deadline for the call for proposals has been extended to September 15,

The “Kentucky Bourbon Tales,” a collaborative effort by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association and the University of Kentucky’s Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, sits down Kentucky’s bourbon barons to tell the stories about themselves, their age-old craft and their products that are in global demand. The project’s first interviews were done late last month with the

The newly incorporated Oral History and Folklife Research, Inc. announces their relaunched website. The website currently includes a link to a slide/audio presentation on the canneries that once dotted the coast of Maine. You can visit the website at www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org

Boston College’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors has sent a third letter to the Rev. William Leahy, the president, asking that the administration appoint an independent committee to examine the circumstances surrounding the creation and conduct of the oral history collection known as the Belfast Project. The controversial legal fight over access