Category: OHAA QLD Blog

According to the public relations department of Astan Quds Razavi’s libraries, museums and docs center, Abulfazl Hassan abadi the center’s manager of press and documents affairs said:” Enjoying 13 years of experience Astan Quds Razavi’s archive of “Oral history center” is the richest center of oral history in Iran.”  He added:” The center, one of the biggest oral history archives in Iran, enjoys varied interviews while the highest numbers of MA history students use it. Moreover it is the only center which uploads its interviews to its website and it is Iran’s most active oral history center.” For full story, click here.

To celebrate the movie’s enduring fandom, Moviefone spoke with the stars of the candy-coated classic and got their first-hand account of making the pop culture landmark.  For full story, including  video clips, click here.

Battered but not Beaten compiled by Toowoomba writer Breanda Cross was launched in Toowoomba this week.  There are some amazing stories that have emerged from the floods of earlier this year; stories of survival, tales of persistence and determination in the face of insurmountable odds and some wonderful accounts of people’s kindness to their neighbours – especially the generosity of volunteers.There is an audio link on the site.  Click here for more.

 

The project compiles stories of the families who left their homes behind in the spring of 1967. The Hudson’s Bay Company trading post in Perry River closed, and about 60 people made the treacherous journey to Gjoa Haven after that.  For full story, click here.

Mike Cronin, academic director of the Dublin-based Boston College Centre for Irish Programmes, is directing BC Ireland’s four-year oral history project of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), which promotes Irish amateur sports and cultural activities internationally as well as throughout Ireland. As Cronin explains, to study the GAA — which celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009 — is to gain a valuable insight into the lives of Irish people.  For full story, click here.

Museums have for long recorded the tangible heritage of a city ; the bricks and mortar with which the city was built. But can a museum capture the idea of a city , or its memories ? Can a museum capture the life of a city in transition ? This is precisely what an ambitious new project sets out to do. In a possible first for India , a group of scholars , academicians and researchers from the Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) at Ambedkar University Delhi have embarked on the Citizen’s Memory Project , a digital archive of the lives of the people of Delhi and the oral history of the capital.  For full story, click here.

Turkey is a country that has one of the youngest populations in the world, with approximately 20 million people between the ages of 15 and 30.  In other words, about 60 percent of the total population of Turkey is under the age of 30. Yet the unemployment rate for young people currently stands at 20 percent, almost twice the national average. Despite those facts, there are neither particular laws regarding issues involving young people nor specific policies geared toward solving their problems. Indeed, the period of youth has been seen as a “transitional period” in society.  Therefore, they put young people at the center of their research titled, “Young People Speak Out: The Contribution of Oral History to Facing the Past, Reconciliation and Democratization in Turkey.”  For full story, click here.

The museum has collected oral histories for more than 20 years, but the 90 interviews in its archive primarily document “the machinations of the institution”, says Michelle Elligott, MoMA’s senior archivist, who is leading the institution’s Artist Oral History Initiative. The new project aims “to increase our understanding of artists’ ideas, intentions, working methods and specifically the materials and any sort of history or context that goes along with these products,” says Elligott. The project, which has a year’s initial funding thanks to an anonymous donor, began in the spring. If further funding is secured, the museum hopes to interview more artists on its 30-strong shortlist. For full story click here.

Freelance historian John Mannion, based in Orroroo, was recently hired by the South Australian branch of the Oral History Association to visit Andamooka and run a workshop to teach a variety of interesting techniques to effectively record and document the town’s history. Full story, click here.

A book cataloguing the photographs of the flooding of Skipton, Victoria in January is hoped to help the town’s folk bond together. Skipton and District Flood January 2011 was launched recently along with an oral history detailing the accounts of 38 people.  The book is a result of an exhibition held in March this year. The book contained 300 photos from the 3000 sent in.  Full story, click here.