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| 16.09 Tuesday | |||
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| 09:00-21:00 | Main Hall | Registration desk opens | |
| 10:30-12:30 | Auditorium Maximum | Guided city tours | |
| 10:30-13:00 | Collegium Witkowskiego | Pre-conference workshops | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Large Hall A | Opening ceremony | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Large Hall A | Keynote lecture: Rememory and Repair in a World of Collective Trauma | |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall A | S1 | Documenting and Preserving - Chair: Andrea Casa Nova Maia 1. Documentary Past: An Aural Process of Curating Voices as Collective Individualities in the Works of Alexievich Susri Bhattacharya 2. Embodied Histories: Negotiating Pathways to Recording Child-Maternal Traditions Facing Extinction in Rural Nigerian Villages. Edeyan Maya Omoweh 3. From Intimate Conversations to Enduring Records: Empowering Communities to Preserve Their Stories Through Digital Archiving of Oral Histories Ermioni Anastasiadi 4. Oral History and History Keeping: Learning from Grassroots Oral Historians in the South Bronx Amy Starecheski |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall B | S2 | Oral Histories of Political Violence - Chair: Alistar Thomson 1. Negotiating Long-term Research Access in Authoritarian Contexts: Lessons from Rwanda Erin Jessee 2. Teaching Oral History in Times of War: Pedagogy as Survival Mechanism Hourig Attarian 3. “Protection as Exclusion: The Missing Voices of Children in Crisis Oral Historical Research" Monica Eileen Patterson 4. The Indonesia Trauma Testimony Project (ITTP): Last Chance Collecting of Oral Histories of the 1965-66 Indonesian Massacres Annie Pohlman 5. The Tibetan Land Speaks: Oral Histories of Political Violence and the Land Kathryn Nasstrom |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall A | S3 | Oral History at a Distance: Reflecting on Our Practice in a New Era - Chair: Mark Wong 1. Oral History at a Distance: Reflections on Ethical Practices in a New Era Adrienne Cain Darough 2. Oral History At A Distance: Reflections on Managing Projects In A New Era Michelle Holland 3. Oral History and Remote Interviewing Stephen Sloan 4. How much is Oral History Changing Due to The Possibility of Virtual Conversations Around The World? Albert Lichtblau 5. Vulnerability Under Lockdown: Interviews with Elderly Jews During the Covid 19 Pandemic, with Emphasis on Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro Margalit Bejarano |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall B | S4 | Audiovisual Presentations I - Chair: Ewelina Szpak 1. Unheard Voices of Bengali Dalit (Lower Caste) Partition Survivors: Giving the Marginalized Voices Access to Public Discourses Avishek Biswas 2. In Memoriam / Islanders Outi Fingerroos, Matleena Jänis 3. Riga Porcelain Factory in the Memories of Former Employees: the Walking Methodology in the Studying of Industrial Heritage Maija Krūmiņa, Maruta Pranka, Ginta Elksne |
| 16:30-18:30 | Small Hall | S5 | Multilingualism and Dissemination - Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska 1. The Kogu Me Lugu Oral History Portal: Disseminating Oral History and Multilingualism in Practice Elmar Gams 2. Speaking “Czechlish”: Multilingual Memory in Oral History Interviews with Czech Immigrants Anna West 3. New Approaches to Disseminating Oral History: The UK Holocaust Testimony Portal and Comparative Testimony Madeline White, Bea Lewkowicz 4. Preserving Voices: Multilingual Oral Histories of Lower-Caste Communities in India Jena Keshab Chandra, Rajesh Prasad 5. Empowering Identity Through Podcasting: an Examination of the Cuban Podcast Lo Llevamos Rizo Radio Leysi Rubio Arevich |
| 16:30-18:30 | Seminar room | S6 | Migration, Heritage and Lifestyle - Chair: James Deutsch 1. Hunting and Medicine: Recentring Oral History in Zooarchaeology in Kafue Flats and Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia. Martha Nchimunya Kayuni 2. The Development of Oral History in China: The Rise of Locality and the Challenges of Globality Miao Tian 3. Will My Interview Help?: Use of Oral History in Partition Studies Tanisha Bhadury 4. Oral History and the History of Sport in Africa: A Historiographical Review Vivian Fonseca, Augusto Nascimento 5. Moveable Feasts: Exploring Memories of Food, Migration and Glasgow (1960-1995) Johnnie Anderson |
| 16:30-18:30 | Conference room | S7 | Power and Resistence - Chair: Miren Llona 1. Los Monstruos Son Ellos. Formas de Provocación con Títeres Durante la Posdictadura Graciela Ruth Browarnik 2. Artefactos de la Memoria A Través de Narrativas de un Líder Político indígena Bororo en el Centro-Oeste Brasileño Wladimyr Araújo 3. ¿Quién Quiere Ser Candidato en Tiempos de Crisis? Una Investigación Sobre Candidaturas y Derrotas Políticas Américo Oscar Guichard Freire 4. 80 Años del Fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Narrativas de la Participación Paraense en la Fuerza Expedicionaria Brasileña (FEB) y la Lucha Contra el Totalitarismo Lucas Carnevale Machado, Roberto de Castro 5. Recordar Para Sanar. Historia Oral y Prácticas Artísticas Testimoniales de la Prisión Política en Chile Osorio Riveros Hugo, Francisca Duran Mateluna |
| 18:45-19:30 | Large Hall A | IOHA Awards Gala & Concert | |
| 19:30-21:00 | Exhibition room | Welcome reception | |
| 17.09 Wednesday | |||
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| 08:30-19:00 | Main Hall | Registration desk opens | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Large Hall A | Plenary discussion: Oral Historians Facing Crises: Attitudes, Fears, and Hopes | |
| 11:00-13:00 | Large Hall A | S8 | Oral History and Memory in Post-War Settings: Methodology, Application, and Dissemination in Lebanon and Kosovo - Chair: Outi Fingerroos 1. Empowering Community-Based Oral History Maria Bashshur Abunnasr 2. Oral History and Collective Trauma: a Way to Transform Conflict? Jenny Munro 3. Maabar: Preserving Memory and Addressing Lebanon’s Contested History Through Audio Storytelling. Anthony Tawil 4. Hijacked Childhoods: Agency, Memory, and Representation Korab Krasniqi 5. Digital Memories: Archiving Post-Conflict Narratives in Kosovo Jeta Rexha |
| 11:00-13:00 | Large Hall B | S9 | Quo Vadis, Wartime Oral History? - Chair: Gelinada Grinchenko 1. Oral History as History of the Self: Design Solutions for Wartime Interviewing and Archiving Projects Iuliia Skubytska 2. When and How Testimonies Become History: the Possibilities and Limitations of Data Collection in the Context of Events Oksana Mikheieva 3. Visualizing Narratives: Making Interviews Public in Times of Ongoing War Svitlana Telukha 4. Wartime Oral History in Ukraine: On Testimony Production and the Challenges of Representation Natalia Khanenko-Friesen 5. Narrating the Wars: WWII and Contemporary Russian-Ukrainian War in Witness Testimonies Petro Dolhanov |
| 11:00-13:00 | Medium Hall A | S10 | Post-memory and Institutions - Chair: Martha Norkunas 1. The University That Belongs to Everyone: Building an Oral History Project to Challenge and Celebrate CUNY’s Role as a Public Good Natalie Milbrodt 2. Protecting the Hands that Built ‘Australia’s Own Car’: Health and Safety at General Motors-Holden Paul Sendziuk 3. Present Threats, Past Protest: Re-Thinking Anti-Nuclear Marches in 1980s Finland Hannah Kaarina Yoken 4. Decolonising the Nuclear Physics: a Potential of Oral History (Case of Kharkiv Physics and Technic Institute) Anastasiia Bozhenko, Viacheslav Grekov 5. Margins in Context: Interviews with the Nominated Members of Parliament of Singapore John Choo |
| 11:00-13:00 | Medium Hall B | S11 | Audiovisual Presentations II - Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak 1. Daichiyo! (The Mother Earth!): The Ainu Messages to the World through Shizue Ukaji’s Interviews and Artwork Eriko Yamamoto |
| 11:00-13:00 | Small Hall | S12 | Migrations and Refugees I - Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu 1. Recontextualizing Migration Memory: Oral History Research of Post-Ottoman Ethnic and Religious Conflicts Arzu ÖztÜrkmen 2. Narratives of Belonging – Intersections of Place, Space and Time in Archived Migrant Narratives from the Collection MIGTALKs Jesper Johansson 3. Migration and Making Home - Computer-Based Secondary Analyses of Large Interview Collections Dennis Möbus, Philipp Bayerschmidt 4. Oral Histories of Refugee Returnees in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam Thuy Vo Dang 5. Co-Creating Migration Memories. Oral Histories of Arrival and Agency Linde Apel |
| 11:00-13:00 | Seminar room | S13 | Silenced Voices and Identity - Chair: Lavinia Snejana 1. Identity and Legacy: Oral Histories of the Kindertransport in Wales Anne Cardenas 2. Meanings of Home Through Ceremonies for Karen Refugees from Burma in Sheffield Peter Bjorklund 3. Rethinking the majority side of dealing with Oral History: reflections on overcoming colonialism and imperialism Hibiki Takeda 4. Re-thinking Singapore's History Through Japanese Occupation Oral History Interviews Mark Wong 5. “Thanks for Recollecting Us, that we Starved Formerly”: Holodomor Oral History as an Example of Overcoming Trauma and Colonial Identity Tetiana Boriak |
| 11:00-13:00 | Conference room | S14 | Oral History Goes Digital - Chair: Leslie McCartney 1. Thinking “Oral-History.Digital”. Recent Experiences with a Web-Based Infrastructure for Oral History Interviews Almut Leh, Cord Pagenstecher 2. The Curator’s Role in Digital Oral History Projects: A Case Study Based on the Virtual-Kolkata Partition Museum Sumallya Mukhopadhyay 3. Re-Thinking Oral History Archives: Considerations for a More Diverse and Inclusive Archival Practice Andrea Althaus 4. Oral History and Public Access: CPDOC's Digital Strategies Ninna de Araújo Carneiro Lima 5. Locating the History of Emotions: Combining Oral History and Digital Ethnography Chayanika Bhaduri |
| 14:00-16:00 | Large Hall A | S15 | Oral History Projects - Chair: Mark Wong 1. Oral History, Auto-Ethnography, and a Living Archive Shepard Forman, Guilherme Caeiro de Mattos, Alexandra Joy Forman 2. Nearby Economies: Integrating Oral History into American Business History Sean Adams, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández 3. Preserving IFLA (International Federation Library Associations) Professional Memory: The SIG Library History Oral History Project Steve Witt, Anna Maria Tammaro, Wang Lei, Patrick Urru 4. Oral History in Polish Community Archives – Research Results Adriana Kapała 5. Tracing the Origins of Italian Oral History: A Case Study on Ernesto de Martino Institute and Its International Network Chiara Paris |
| 14:00-16:00 | Large Hall B | S16 | Postmemory - Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska 1. "Icimbo ca Malilo" as Oral History: Social and Therapeutic Role of a Funeral Dirge in Post-colonial Zambia Chama Kaluba Jickson 2. The Divergence of Samba Practices Between Brazil and Japan: A Comparative Study of Cultural and Political Influences from Voice of Them Isao Kato 3. The Haunting Painting of Jesus. Obstacles and Alternatives in Conducting Oral History Research within Post-Displacement Regions Magdalena Bubík 4. Possibilities of Practices and Oral Histories of People Who Inherit Memories and Records Akiko Mizutani 5. In the Postmemory and Cultural Memory Regime: The Passing of the Second World War Witness Generation and Ethnographic Research Dariusz Nikiel |
| 14:00-16:00 | Medium Hall A | S17 | The Aftermath of October 7th 2023: a Challenge to Yiddishists' Ideas and Practices about Oral History - Chair: Ben Rogaly 1. Facing the Trouble: Cultural Workers in Yiddishland, Political Zionism, and the Movement for Palestinian Liberation Ben Rogaly 2. The Devastation of Gaza: Historical Perspectives of a Yiddish Poem Tal Hever-Chybowski 3. Far Ayer un Undzer Frayhayt – For Your Freedom and for Ours – Oral histories of Jewish International Brigade Volunteers and What We Can Learn from Them in These Dfficult Times Annabel Gottfried Cohen 4. (Re)collecting Oral History the Aftermath of Tragedy: The Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland after WW2 and the Gaza War Zach Smerin 5. Jewish Feelings: Oral Histories and Emotions of British Jews in Israel's Wars of 1967 and of 1967 and 2023/4 Joseph Finlay |
| 14:00-16:00 | Medium Hall B | S18 | Audiovisual Presentations III - Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay 1. Redesigning Oral History Archives with Data Madeline Alexander, Christopher Pandza, Łukasz Knasiecki, Magdalena Kęsik 2. Animating Voices Martha Norkunas, Nina Sabnani |
| 14:00-16:00 | Small Hall | S19 | Emotions and Therapy - Chair: David Beorlegui 1. Oral History and Confronting the Past: Memory, Trauma, and Justice in European Historical Reappraisal Felicitas Söhner 2. (E)Motion Sickness Warning: The Challenge of (Hyper-)Emotionalization in Immersive VR Interviews with Contemporary Witnesses Roman Smirnov 3. “I Kept it to Myself for Seventy Years. I am Glad You Asked”: Reflections on the Therapeutic Aspects of Oral History Nazan Çiçek, Evren Ahmet Demir 4. Healing Through Oral History: A Complex Journey of Forgiveness and Accountability Tomoyo Nakao 5. Healing Old Wounds: The Therapeutic Role of Oral History Sharing in Aboriginal Culture Krista Christensen, Belinda Russon Nayanar |
| 14:00-16:00 | Seminar room | S20 | Migrations and Refugees II - Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa 1. Precarity, Truths, and Politics: Experiences of a Political Caravan for Permanent Residency in the U.S. Stephanie M Huezo 2. Remembering Home Across Borders, Oceans, and Time: Oral Histories of Italian Migration to Australia Anabelle Selvaggio 3. Urgent Documentation in Swedish Museum Context: Circulation of Oral Histories from “Refugee Crisis” 2015 Olga Zabalueva 4. Navigating Post-Exile: Experiences of Return through Oral History Maija Krūmiņa, Ginta Elksne 5. Latvian Migration Waves: Identity, Memory, and the Diaspora Experience Maruta Pranka, Ginta Elksne |
| 14:00-16:00 | Conference room | S21 | Ethics and Methdology - Chair: Outi Fingerroos 1. The Universality of Civil Rights in Oral History James Karmel 2. Oral History and Storytelling – Rethinking the Difference Bjørn Enes 3. What Can We Learn from a Historical Miniature Sharon Livne 4. Storytelling vs Oral History: Friends or Foes? A Case Study from Greece Antonis Antoniou, Riki Van Boeschoten 5. Storytelling or Oral History: Reflections on Storytelling Workshops Yvonne McFadden |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall A | S22 | Methodology and Ethics - Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska 1. On The History and Methodology of the Armenian Genocide Oral History Making from 1915 Until Now Shushan Khachatryan 2. Letting go of Traditions to Embrace Tradition: Subverting Expectations in Oral History and Creating Space for New Ideas and Approaches Sean Visintainer, Jennifer Ho 3. Joining Together the Researcher and the Field Mediator in the Oral History Interview Vanessa Corrado, Nilanjan Dutta 4. Through Biographical Research to Creating Common Space for Advancing the Past and Present. Historical and Sociological Perspective Jakub Gałęziowski, Kaja Kaźmierska 5. Gothenburg’s 1968: Piecing together a movement, piecing together a project Rachel Pierce, Martin Linde, Martin Ohman |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall B | S23 | Oral History and Epidemics Across Borders: Transnational, Marginalised and Temporal Responses - Chair: Alistar Thomson 1. “People Were Kinder this Time”: An Australian Woman Compares Her Experiences of Life and Loss During Two Pandemics, Thirty Years Apart Nikki Henningham 2. A Case Study of Pandemic History: A Scoping Review of the Global Legacy, Discoverability, Dissemination and Contested Nature of HIV Oral Histories Wendy Rickard 3. Emotions, then and Now: Comparing Oral Histories of the 1919 Influenza Pandemic and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 1992-1999 in Australia Shirleene Robinson 4. Remembering and Narrating Black Responses to HIV/AIDS in Britain George Severs 5. Intimacy and Ethics: Navigating Oral Histories of the HIV/AIDS Crisis Katarzyna Szarla |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall A | S24 | Ethics and Health - Chair: Lavinia Snejana Costea 1. Rethinking ‘Oral’ History Ethics from a Deaf and Disabled Perspective Eline Pollaert, Kirstie Stage 2. Deaf Memories - How to Study? Outi Ahonen 3. Resistance and Agency in a Medical Multiverse: Intersubjectivity and Oral Histories of Ilness Pooja Sagar 4. The (Re)Discovery of Lost Archives of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (1970–1990): Oral History as an Ethnography of the Archive Sarah Ahmed 5. Participatory Oral History for Social Change: Collaborative Approaches to Mental Health Research Verusca Calabria 6. Healing or opening wounds? Oral History and Ethics in Emergency Medical Services Research (1974–2003) Jiří Hlaváček |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall B | S25 | Audiovisual Presentations IV - Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay 1. National Library of China: An Oral History (documentary) Mao Mengou, Miao Tian |
| 16:30-18:30 | Small Hall | S26 | In Between? Bridging Histories: Challenges and Innovations in Documenting European Borderlands - Chair: Ewelina Szpak 1. "In-Between?" Goes to the Balkans: The 2017 Study Visits in Mostar and the Prespa Lakes Region Naum Trajanovski 2. Digesting Oral History in Broadcast Production John Beauchamp 3. Reflections on the 2021 Edition of “In Between?” and the Role of Oral History in Challenging Times Liana Blikharska 4. In Between? Exploring Local Histories of European Borderlands Joanna Orłoś 5. Encounter of Visual History and Oral Testimonies Annemarie Franke |
| 16:30-18:30 | Seminar room | S27 | Oral History and Memory Studies - Chair: Piotr Filipkowski 1. Investigating Collective Memories of a ‘Gay Prison’ in an Award-Winning Podcast: Navigating Ethics, Trust and Trauma Siobhan McHugh 2. Teachers as Storytellers – Linking Memory Studies and Oral History Agnieszka Nowakowska 3. Shoah after 40 years. New Perspectives on Interviews with Polish Communal Subjects Magda Heydel, Roma Sendyka 4. Ukrainian National Identity Declared with Russian Birthplace in a Passport. Ukrainian Refugees in Poland Against their Russian Biographical Moments After the Russian Full-Scale Invasion 2022 Elżbieta Kwiecińska 5. The Power of Testimony in a Post-Conflict Societies. Documenting Cases of Rape in El Salvador in the Aftermath of its Armed Conflict Paula Cuellar |
| 16:30-18:30 | Conference room | S28 | Music and Art - Chair: Andrea Casa 1. The Renaissance of Benga Music in Ukambani Region in Kenya, 1970-1990 Fidelis Kioko Makali 2. Musicking Oral History: The Yorùbá Omolúàbí Philosophy in a Glocal Context Oluwatosin John Ibitoye 3. Oral History of Warsaw Rap: Artistic Transformation and Collaboration with Musicians Tomasz Krajewski 4. Under the Dominant Beat: Investigating the Musical Landscapes that Shaped Music City Jon Sewell 5. Memories and Sensible Marks of Brazilian Black Visual Artists Daisy Perelmutter |
| 18:45-20:00 | Large Hall A | IOHA general assembly | |
| 18.09 Thursday | |||
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| 08:30-18:30 | Main Hall | Registration desk opens | |
| 09:30-10:30 | Large Hall A | Keynote lecture: Oral History and Climate Change: Testaments of Weirding | |
| 11:00-13:00 | Large Hall A | S29 | Oral History Fieldwork and Archives - Chair: Alistar Thomson 1. Lost in Translation: Challenging Language Barriers in Oral History Practices Ummul Muhseneen 2. Adapting Approaches to Sociopolitical Contexts: the Arabic Speaking Region as an Experiential Example Reem Maghribi 3. Precarity and [Oral History] Practice: Palestinian Educators in Exile Maria Bashshur Abunnasr 4. From Family Narratives to the Classroom: Competitions, Documentaries, and Oral History in Albania Jonila Godole 5. Silenced Voices: Social Demands and Teaching History Marieta de Moraes Ferreira |
| 11:00-13:00 | Large Hall B | S30 | Minorities - Chair: David Beorlegui 1. Roma Subaltern Memories Chiara Nencioni 2. Unheard Voices: Stories of LGBTI+ Clergy in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa Ntobeko Dlamini 3. Globalization and Cultural Transformation: The Case of Gond Oral and Visual Narrative Jhariya Sagar 4. Inclusive Histories: A Collaborative Approach to Malayalam Oral Histories Mallory Cerkleski 5. Toward a More Inclusive State History: The Latino Oklahoma Oral History Project Sarah Foss |
| 11:00-13:00 | Medium Hall A | S31 | Environment - Chair: Andrea Casa Nova Maia 1. Voices of the Past: Senior Citizens' Role in Environmental Conservation in the UAE Maitha Salman Al Zaabi 2. The Oral History of Deployment of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in Emergencies & Natural Disasters Michal Louc 3. “Maybe we did something” - An Oral History of the Alter-Globalization Movement in Bologna Antonino Sciotto 4. Skopje, the City of Solidarity: The Oral Histories of the 1963 Skopje Earthquake and the Post-Earthquake Urban Reconstruction Naum Trajanovski |
| 11:00-13:00 | Medium Hall B | S32 | Audiovisual Presentations V - Chair: Mark Wong 1. Beyond Words: Crafting Oral Histories in Dance and the Arts Ricardo Viviani 2. From Glory to Oblivion: the Fight to Preserve Our Home Maricruz Romero-Ugalde 3. American Icons: Amplifying Community Voices in Public Art & Education Cynthia Tobar |
| 11:00-13:00 | Small Hall | S33 | Oral History, Memory and Memorialization in the Aftermath of Violence and Political Repression - Chair: Natalia Khanenko-Friesen 1. Testimonies of Czechoslovak Survivors of the Gulag in the Light of NKVD Documents Adam Hradilek 2. Chornobyl Zone between Two Historic Crimes (1986/2022): Oral History and Memorialization of the Disaster Svitlana Makhovska 3. Retold War: Oral History Projects and Narratives about the Second World War in Contemporary Ukraine Liana Blikharska 4. The Srebrenica Genocide Oral History: An Academic Approach Ann Petrila, Hasan Hasanović 5. Oral History and Museums: The Case of Preserving and Representing Oral Historical Memory in Ukraine’s National Museum of Revolution of Dignity Olha Salo |
| 11:00-13:00 | Seminar room | S34 | Education - Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa 1. Oral History as a Decolonial Pedagogy in History Education for Pre- Service Teachers in Postcolonial Zambia Yvonne Kabombwe 2. Educating Generations: The Legacy and Future of the Allen-White School Campus, a Rosenwald School in Whiteville, Tennessee Brannon Smithwick 3. Designing Training Programmes with Community-Led Oral History Projects Rosa Schling, Camille Johnston 4. Oral History in the Classroom: Successes and Challenges Isabelle Carter, Ellen Bishop 5. Japanese Collections of Oral Testimonies of the Asia-Pacific War as Resources for Peace Education Katarzyna Starecka |
| 11:00-13:00 | Conference room | S35 | Digital Oral History - Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay 1. Oral History and New Forms of Digital Public History: Meta-Archives and WWI Angelo Agosti 2. The Evolution of Oral History Pedagogy: Project Design which Prioritizes Access, the Columbia College Chicago Oral History Model. Erin McCarthy 3. How Did a Seasoned Director Describe the Life of a Vietnam War Deserter Sheltered in Japan 47 Years Ago? In the Case of “A Deserter Who Came to My Home” (2015) Jun Oguro 4. Korean Memories Project: Using Technology to Document Historical Perspectives H. Deborah Kwak, Alice Wrigglesworth, Lynnette G. Leonard 5. Non-verbal and paralinguistic expressions in an academic community oral history: a multimodal digital oral history analysis Julianne Nyhan |
| 14:00-16:00 | Large Hall A | S36 | Oral History and Families: a Neglected Methodological Frontier. Exploring the Ethics, Politics, Archives and the Afterlives of Oral History Interviews and the Family - Chair: Mary Stewart 1. Busting the Myth of ‘Cosy’ Family History: Exploring the Complex Ethics of Telling, Listening and Accessing Family Stories in Both Public and Private Archives Mary Stewart 2. Having His Voice on CD is the Most Precious Thing I Could Have”: Are Oral Histories Recorded at the End of Life Always a Comfort for Family? Michelle Winslow 3. The Role of Family When Co-Creating Defined and Undefined Oral Histories in Palliative and Supportive Care Sam Smith 4. "I Wouldn't Have Spoken to Her About it Otherwise": the Family Oral History Interview as a Catalyst for Change Keira Gomez 5. Reconnecting Broken Threads Through Oral History and Archival Research: Healing Encounters in Grybow, Poland Barbara Einhorn |
| 14:00-16:00 | Large Hall B | S37 | Institutional OH Programs: Re-thinking the Relationships with Their Communities - Chair: Stephen Sloan 1. “Interviewing People Who Don’t Look Like Me”: Re-thinking Who We Interview (and Why) Troy Reeves 2. “Meeting Them Where They Are”: Collaborations That Create Value for the Communities Being Interviewed Todd Moye 3. Too Much of a Good Thing? Using AI to Rescue a Community Oral History Project Douglas Boyd 4. Going Local: Applying Oral History to Explore Counternarratives of Campus Communities Stephen Sloan 5. Learning from Our Neighbors: How Community Partnerships Can Challenge and Refine Our Oral History Practice Natalie Fousekis |
| 14:00-16:00 | Medium Hall A | S38 | Women in Oral History 1 - Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa 1. It’s Not All Roses… Sometimes, It’s Orchids: The Emotional (Oral) History of An All-Female Band Ricardo Santhiago 2. Gender Imbalance in Oral History Projects and its Impact on Scientific Results (a Case Study of Czech Historiography) Lenka Krátká 3. Testimonies of Life and Death: Memoirs of Franco's Women's Prisons and Their Educational Possibilities Ángel Benavente Serra 4. The Oral Histories of Polish Migrant Women in Violent Relationships: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform the Development of Domestic Abuse Services in the UK and Europe Sundari Anitha, Ros Kane, Michael Rasell, Iwona Zielinska 5. Our Chosen Work, Our Rightful Place: Women, Oral History, and Political Conflict in the United States Kate Orazem |
| 14:00-16:00 | Medium Hall B | S39 | A Life of Listening - Chair: Martha Norkunas 1. Dando Voz a Las Mujeres Silenciadas Pilar Domínguez Prats 2. La Historia Oral Feminista. Escuchando Las Memorias de Las Mujeres Miren Llona 3. Learning to Listen Alessandro Portelli |
| 14:00-16:00 | Small Hall | S40 | Family Remembrance, “Received Memory,” and Holocaust - Chair: Michael Frisch 1. Family Remembrance, “Received Memory,” and Holocaust Oral History - OIHA 2025 Pamela Chodosh 2. The Interactions of Family Oral History Memories Mary Gordon 3. Family Album – a Chronicler’s Coded Message Mark Silber 4. Family Zoom Meetings and Informal Recordings as Documents of "Received Memory": Emerging Oral History Tools and Approaches Michael Frisch 5. Innovation Combining Oral History and Photographic Research Methodologies: Writing Compelling Poetic Prose in a Lithuanian Community Study Eve Puodžiūnaitė Wicks |
| 14:00-16:00 | Seminar room | S41 | Marginalised Voices and Histories - Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu 1. The Testing of Silenced and Marginalised Voices with the Discourse of the State and the Public Space in Turkey Mehttap Tosun 2. Colonial Korean Railroad and Japanese Youth Employees: Memories of the Seonkokai Chaisung Lim 3. Bachelor Gangs and Political Divisions – Rethinking Finnish Oral Histories in a Canadian Multiethnic Mining Community Kirsti Salmi-Niklander 4. Reclaiming Voices, Reframing History: Oral Narratives and the Human Dimension of Partition of India Sutapa Das 5. Empowering Communities Through Oral History – the Coastal Uplands: Heritage and Tourism Project Arlene Crampsie |
| 14:00-16:00 | Conference room | S42 | War and Soldiers - Chair: Piotr Filipkowski 1. Experiences and Findings from Oral History Field Research of the Czech Soldiers Deployed in Lithuania and Slovakia as a Part of NATO's Military Presence During the War in Ukraine Pavel Stehlík 2. A Storytelling Café in Lüneburg, a Small Town in the German North. Testimonies from War and Exile Ulla Lachauer 3. The Tale of the Capos Alexander Prenninger 4. Lending an Ear to German Soldiers. The Oral History Project of the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences Sven Deppisch 5. The Voice of the Soldiers: Oral History as a Form for the Therapeutic Processing of Military Experience and Trauma Lucie Felcan Rajlová |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall A | S43 | Memory and Heritage - Chair: Miao Tian 1. Liming: An Invaluable Source of Caribbean Oral History Feyi Raimi-Abraham 2. Oral history vs. Memory Monoculture: Initiatives at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo in Egypt Stephen Urgola 3. Craftsmanship and Memory: Archives Establishment and Public Dissemination of the Oral History from the Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage Wang Hao, Wang Lei, Cheng Huanwen 4. When (grant)parents tell … A study of (post)colonial memories within Congolese families in Belgium (1950-2023) Marta Guerreiro Bernardino 5. Threading Voices: Analyzing Communal Participation in Preserving Oral Tradition Pertaining Creative Processes Associated with Craftsmanship María del Carmen Ordóñez Avila |
| 16:30-18:30 | Large Hall B | S44 | Power and Protest - Chair: Miren Llona 1. Política(s) de la Intimidad. Radicalidades y Uso de lo Intimo en España, 1980-2000 Vicent Bellver-Loizaga 2. Contribuciones de la Historia Oral al Estudio de la Vida de los(as) Trabajadores(as) de la Frontera Brasileña con Paraguay y Argentina en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XX Jiani Fernando Langaro 3. Del Silencio a la Acción: Subjetivación Política en El Paro Feminista de la UAM Karemi Odeth García Arias 4. Las Mujeres Guerrilleras del Partido de los Pobres, Atoyac, Guerrero Entre 1967 y 1974 Eva Daniela Sandoval Espejo 5. Archivo de Relatos Orales en Fuga: ¿Qué Abanico de Regímenes, de Leyes, de Prohibiciones, de Castigos Dictarán Nuestros Sueños? Camilo Igua Torres |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall A | S45 | Trauma and Emotions - Chair: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 1. Documenting Trauma: Collecting Oral Histories of the October 7 Attacks and the War that Followed Roni Mikel-Arieli 2. “I Had to Listen and Appear as Unmoved as Possible”: How did Care Workers Relate to Child Survivors’ Sharing their War-Time Experiences? Sharon Kangisser Cohen 3. Fragments of Memory: A Therapeutic Oral History Approach to Trauma Narratives Rapaport Sharon 4. “Like a Sack of Garbage that Everyone Wants to Put Away:” How to Listen to Stigmatized Survivors of Kosovo Wartime Rape Anna Di Lellio Crawford 5. Home Children and Oral History. Remember. Compensate. Reconcile? Michael John |
| 16:30-18:30 | Medium Hall B | S46 | Audiovisual Presentations VI - Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak 1. Lost Futures and Persistent Past Jody Stokes-Casey, Chad Eby |
| 16:30-18:30 | Small Hall | S47 | Visualization of Oral History for Social Change – Documentaries, Video Exhibition, Graphic Novel. Challenges, Ethics and Impact - Chair: Alina Doboszewska 1. Oral History Films as a Tool for Social Change. Ethical Issues Alina Doboszewska 2. Non-Obvious Disenchantment. Roma in Oral History Films Monika Szewczyk 3. On Both Sides of the Screen: The Researcher and the Arrangement of Oral History in a Documentary Film Gelinada Grinchenko 4. Visualization of Trauma in the Educational Context: Ethics and Sources Svitlana Telukha 5. Oral History in the Srebrenica Genocide Documentaries and Video Exhibitions Hasan Hasanović |
| 16:30-18:30 | Seminar room | S48 | Education and Dissemination - Chair: James Deutsch 1. Witnessing Personal History in Public Space: Autobiographical Narratives of Polish Jews on the You Tube Platform – Between Oral History and Visual Ethnography Józef Markiewicz 2. The Role of Yiddish in Individual and Communal Identity Formation in Historical, Mythical, and Contemporary Lithuania Christa P. Whitney 3. Seeing the Spoken Word: Curating Oral Histories in a Visual World Ren Rong Chong 4. Oral History at FGV CPDOC: Preservation and Dissemination Experiences Vivian Fonseca 5. A Greater Listening – Landscape, Place and Recognition in Community Oral History Practice Tomas Mac Conmara |
| 16:30-18:30 | Conference room | S49 | Gathering, Archiving, Disclosing: Oral History of the Ukrainian Experience of 2022- Russian Aggression - Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska 1. What is Sensitive, and for Whom? Sensitive Information in War Testimonies Natalia Otrishchenko, Anna Wylegała 2. The Interviewer’s Sincere Autoethnography: what does it Mean to be Both a Researcher and a Ukrainian in the Project of Interviewing Ukrainian Refugees in Poland Olha Krasko 3. Codifying Sensitive Information Into Metadata: Potential and Challenges Valentyna Shevchenko 4. A (Human) Geography of Ukrainian Migration Testimonies of the War and Visualisation Criticism Machteld Venken 5. Digitally Preserving and Disclosing Ukrainian Testimonies of the War Inna Ganschow |
| 20:00-23:00 | Kościuszko Mound | Conference party | |
| 19.09 Friday | |||
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| 08:30-14:30 | Main Hall | Registration desk opens | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Large Hall A | Plenary discussion: Oral history and community archives – intersections and impacts | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Large Hall A | S50 | Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools - Chair: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 1. Listening and Learning Native American Boarding School Oral Histories of “Intergenerational Strength” Farina King 2. Working Toward Whiteness: The Indigenous Experience of Training and Outing in a Settler Colonial Industrial School in the United States Janne Lahti 3. Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools: Engaging Oral History Toward Teaching Complex Histories R. Rene Kemble, Erin Dyke, Lisa Lynn Brooks 4. “We don’t like to focus on the bad:” Balancing Individual Testimony and National Remembering Sarah Milligan |
| 11:00-12:30 | Large Hall B | S51 | Oral History Intergenerational Transmission - Chair: James Deutsch 1. A Gift from Gwich’in Elders to Future Generations Leslie McCartney 2. How Uncle Alphonse’s Survival Became a Familiy Secret. Intergenerational Memories of Relatives of Patients in Nazi Psychiatry Lea Münch 3. Oral Histories of the Dead: Life Stories, Archaeology and the Arts as Methods for Discovering and Representing Montreal’s Back River Cemetery Naomi Frost, Romy Shoam, Sonia Halpern-Bazar, Anna Sheftel 4. Narrative Biographical Interviews and Knowledge Production in the Context of Intergenerational Transmission of War Memories Emina Zoletic |
| 11:00-12:30 | Medium Hall A | S52 | New Perspectives and Challenges of Environmental Oral History - Chair: Andrea Casa 1. Narrativas Plurales Sobre El Caso Ardystil: Una Intoxicación Laboral en Fábricas de Aerografía Textil en España en los Años 90. Sofiya Kamalova 2. La ruptura metabólica y la transformación de la “agricultura familiar” en los espacios periurbanos: l’Horta de València Jorge Ramón Ros 3. Reflexiones Sobre Desindustrialización Nociva Desde El Prisma de la Historia Oral Ambiental: El Caso de las áreas de Estuario de Bizkaia (España) Desde 1977 Hasta El Presente David Beorlegui Zarranz 4. Memoria y Paisaje Urbano Entre resiliencia, Reparación y Adaptación: Derechos Humanos y Nuevas Configuraciones de la Bahía de Guanabara Frente a la (Des)Industrialización Tóxica Andréa Casa Nova Maia |
| 11:00-12:30 | Medium Hall B | S53 | Audiovisual Presentations VII - Chair: Almut Leh 1. (Re)Encounters Akupӯnh Awjanã Celso Castro |
| 11:00-12:30 | Small Hall | S54 | War and Veterans - Chair: Miao Tian 1. Action "Iskra-Dog" as a Case of Emergency Documenting in Occupied Poland, 1944-1945 Michał Studniarek 2. How Amateur Historians Use Rhetorical Strategies to Preserve Marginalized Voices from WWII and Beyond Agnieszka Szurek 3. Describing the History of the Asia-Pacific War and The Power of Oral History Tomoki Takeda 4. Showcasing Stories: Exploring Presentation of Dutch Veterans’ Oral Histories Daphne Van Noordt |
| 11:00-12:30 | Seminar room | S55 | Ethics and Oral History - Chair: Outi Fingerroos 1. Rethinking Ethics: The Past, Present and Future of a Sámi Folklore and Oral History Collection Anne Heimo, Heli Syrjälä 2. Being a Good Scholar or a Good Person? Shared/Sharing Authority and the Practice of Taking Scholarship for Granted Annika Olsson 3. Healing Conversation? The Impact of In-Depth Repeated Oral History Interviews on Interviewees, their Descendants, and Society Monika Vrzgulova 4. Diary of Three War Years: Ethics and Interviews with Ukrainian War Refugees Radmila Svarickova Slabakova |
| 11:00-12:30 | Conference room | S56 | Historical Connoisseurs. Dialogues on Crafting the Past and Heritage - Chair: Marta Kurkowska-Budzan 1. Emotional Landscapes: The Complexities of Interviewing Regionalists Sonia Knapczyk-Tomalka 2. The Challenges and Dangers of Oral History Research among German Second World War Military Re-enactors Petr Wohlmuth 3. From Pit to Podium: Dialogues of Industrial Heritage Grace Simpson, Anu Printsmann, Marta Kurkowska-Budzan 4. Voices of Modernity: Curatorial and Collector Perspectives in Chinese Museums Keyi Yin |
| 12:45-14:15 | Large Hall A | S57 | Oral History and Gender Subjectivities - Chair: Pilar Domínguez 1. Subjetividades en Tensión: la Modista, la Chica Moderna, y los Límites del Orden de Género de Entreguerras Miren Llona 2. Mujeres Rurales en la Revolución Prtuguesa: la Subjetividad de los Roles de Género Ana Sofia Ferreira 3. Paradojas de Una Militancia Transnacional: Antifranquismo, Subjetividades y Género Mónica Moreno-Seco |
| 12:45-14:15 | Large Hall B | S58 | Oral History on Trial: Truth Recovery and Public Inquiries - Chair: Rob Perks 1. Remembering the Berger Inquiry Leslie McCartney 2. Archives as Evidence: the Uses, or Not, of Archived Oral Histories in UK Public Inquiries Charlie Morgan 3. A Tale of Two Testimony Collection Methods: Investigating Mother and Baby Institutions and Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland Sean O'Connell |
| 12:45-14:15 | Medium Hall A | S59 | Environment - Chair: Piotr Filipkowski 1. Mountains and Safety in Mind. Re-Thinking the Sources of Environmental History Tomáš W. Pavlíček 2. Vegetable Tanning in Barrio Arriba, León, Gto., Mexico The Rescue of a Technique in Danger of Extinction Silvia Patricia López-Sánchez, Maricruz Romero-Ugalde 3. The Rhetoric of Voicelessness in Animal Advocacy: Oral History as a Methodology in Critical Animal Studies Giorgia Pagliuca |
| 12:45-14:15 | Medium Hall B | S60 | Audiovisual Presentations VIII - Chair: Almut Leh 1. Lifting Up What Works®: An Oral History of the First 22 Years of PolicyLink Thaler Pekar |
| 12:45-14:15 | Small Hall | S61 | Women in Oral History 2 - Chair: Lavinia Snejana 1. Lessons from the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)Sector: The 'How' of Care in Oral History Anna Cole, Kim Hosier 2. Energetically United and Enveloped by Water: Building Sustainable Composites: Mulheres Using Barnacles and Components from Aviation Graveyards for Energy Storage Debora Nascimento 3. Oral History as a Tool for Understanding Women’s lives in Ishinomaki after the Great East Japan Earthquake Naomi Chiba 4. The Unexplored Psyche of Bengali Migrant Women: Voices from Post-1947 Historiography Subhasree Ghosh |
| 12:45-14:15 | Seminar room | S62 | Oral Archives: Which Voices Should Be Preserved for Future Generations? - Chair: Alessandro Casellato 1. Reusing Interviews on Anti-Fascist Resistance Giulia Zitelli Conti, Alessandro Casellato, Cecilia Furioso Cenci 2. Voices of Resistance and the Assumption of Power in Slovenia after the Second World War Urška Lampe 3. Recognition of Women's Experience of War in Nuto Revelli's Work Armelle Girinon, Ninon Chevrier 4. Oral Archives of Migrations in Argentina: the Case of the “Archivo de la Palabra y la Imagen” (Mar del Plata, Argentina) Bettina Favero |
| 12:45-14:15 | Conference room | S63 | Ethical Oral History - Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu 1. Ethics and Oral History: Harnessing the Power of Oral History to Document, Heal and Empower Angela Zusman 2. How to Find Knowledge in a Well of Words Juan Ricardo Torres Castañeda 3. Re-thinking Oral History Analysis: the Affective Presence of Voice Janine Schemmer 4. Is a Dessert Served or do I Pose as One? Narrator as an Improper Suitor Marie Barešová |
| 14:15-14:30 | Large Hall A | Closing ceremony | |
| 15:30-18:00 | Auditorium Maximum | Guided city tours | |
