Events

Previous Events

Since launching in June 2011, the OHN has put on a wide variety of talks, seminars, and reading groups.

2024-2025

• 12 June, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'oral history and the history of emotions'
• 16 October, 'Oral histories of genocide', talk and Q&A with Erin Jessee
• 7 October, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'community oral history', chaired by Pierre Botcherby

2023-2024

• 25 April, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'oral history and public policy'
• 13 March, 'Now we are forty: conversations with women', talk, Q&A, and book launch with Susannah Wilson
• 25 October, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'oral histories of partition', chaired by Smriti Dutt
• 11 October, Annual Welcome and Drop-In Session

2022-2023

• 31 May, 'Oral history as a form of care and a catalyst for creativity: experiences from research on Chile and Spain', with Alison de Ribeiro Menezes, Veronica Diaz-Certa, and Monica Jato
• 27 April, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'oral history and the environment'
• 17 November, Warwick reading group, 'oral history and ethics', chaired by Sue Lemos
• 15 September, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'oral history and politics', chaired by Nicolette Snowden

2021-2022

• 17 June, Summer term Writing Day
• 28 April, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'Oral history and disability', chaired by Kirstie Stage
• 7 April, 'Creating and working with oral historical sources', online workshop co-organised with University of Leicester/M4C
• 7 March, 'Story story', with Oluwalanaire Aderemi
• 1 December, 'Memories of Binley Colliery', with Pierre Botcherby, Daniel Loveard, Dan Smith, Fu Ge Yang, Kiera Evans
• 17 November, Warwick reading group, 'ethics and safeguarding in oral history'
• 13 October, Warwick reading group, 'remote oral history interviewing', chaired by Beckie Rutherford
• 13 October, Informal meet-and-greet for new and existing members

2020-2021

• 12 August, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'ethics and safeguarding in oral history', chaired by Carla Pascoe Leahy
• 22 June, Warwick reading group, 'reflexivity in oral history', chaired by Georgia Clancy
• 25 May, 'Queering oral and global history: LGBT+ immigrants of colour in Coventry', with Somak Biswas, Dipak Panchal, and Amal Malik
• 6 May, Warwick-Monash reading group, 'queer and indigenous oral history', chaired by Sue Lemos
• 24 February: 'Global technologies, local patients: challenges, reflexivity, and positionality', with Sara Bamdad
• 26 October: 'Injustice: Stories from Post-Independence Africa', with Tanyaradzwa Kasinganeti, Teejae Mai, Temi 'Tori Talks' Toriola, and Evan Mawarire

2019-2020

• 11 June: Online launch of 'Then & Now: Arts at Warwick', via Microsoft Teams - a recording is available on the exhibition website!
• 28 January: 'Interviewing local NGOs and migrants: collecting data in the context of Central American migration in Mexico', with Erika Herrera-Rosales
• 15 October: 'Queering the British Library', with Steven Dryden (British Library). Joint event with Queer History Warwick and The Library.

2018-2019

• 29 May: 'Les raconteuses du Levant: untold stories of female Hakawatis and the challenges they pose to sustainable development discourse in the Arab-speaking world', with Cathia Jenainati
• 6 March: 'Taking slices from their lives: the challenges of using life history as a research instrument/method', with Olayinka Egbokhare
• 4 December: 'Working with memory to avoid repeating the horror', with Maria Luisa Ortiz

2017-2018

• 2 July: Seminar: 'Muslim Mothers in Britain', with Sariya Cheruvallil
• 21 February: Workshop: Hidden Stories of 21st Century Latin America and the Caribbean', organised by Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla.
• November: 'Oral History Week'
  
  • 14 November: 'The Place of Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Birth Attendants and Choices about childbirth in C20 Uganda', with Kathleen Vongsathorn.
  • 15 November: 'Relaunch of the Oral History Network', with Angela Davis, Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla, Kathleen Vongsathorn, and Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.
  • 16 November: The Vietnamese diaspora in Australia: Nathalie Nguyen in discussion

2015-2016

• 3 Virtual Q&A sessions to discuss aspects of oral history theory and practice.

2014-2015

• 26 June: Workshop: 'University Oral Histories: Creating and Interpreting Narratives of Higher Education', with Camilla Schofield, Lorraine Blakemore, and Richard Wallace.

• 17 June: Oral History Clinic, with Angela Davis.

• 18 May: Discussion Forum: 'Analysis and Interpretation' with Andrea Hajek.
• 25 February: Seminar: 'Starting an Oral History Project' with Carmen Mangion and Richard Wallace.
• 3 December: Discussion Forum: 'Oral History: the Basics' with Angela Davis and Grace Huxford.

2013-2014

• 12 March: Seminar: '“You are here to interview me?” Oral history and writing the history of everyday life in the Holocaust', with Anna Hajkova.
• 5 February: Seminar: 'Oral history crossing national boundaries: investigating belief and non-belief in three European countries', with Joanna Bornat.
• 9 November: Conference: 'Representing Prisoner of War Experience', with Keynote Speakers: Bob Moore and Gilly Carr.
• 20 September: Conference: 'Talking about protest: oral history methodology in social and political movements research', with Keynote Speaker: Lynn Abrams.

2012-2013

• 3 June: Webinar: 'Oral history & ethnography', in collaboration with Monash University.
• 12 March: Seminar: 'Oral history & institutional history - the Warwick project 'The Voice of the Past' (part 2)', with April Gallwey.
• 22 November: Seminar: 'Oral history & institutional history - the Warwick project 'The Voice of the Past' (part 1)', with Richard Aldrich.

2011-2012

• 9 July: Seminar: 'Oral history & the community', with Stacey Bains, Helen Ford, and Colin Hyde.
• 24 February: IAS workshop: 'Narrating a Gendered Self in Post-War Britain'
• 24 November: Conference: 'Gender, Subjectivity and Oral History', with Keynote Speaker: Penny Summerfield.
• 13 October: Seminar: 'What is oral history?', with Anna Davin.

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