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Shirleen Robinson says –
Along with a team of other academic researchers and the National Library of Australia, I am involved with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Life Stories oral history project. We are interviewing 60 gay men and lesbian women across Australia in order to investigate what it has been like to live a gay or lesbian life at a time when social attitudes towards homosexuality have shifted significantly. For full story click here.
As part of the 2014 International AIDS Conference, taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre this month, the University of Melbourne is convening an AIDS ‘Witness Seminar’, an opportunity to capture testimony from several individuals who were influential during the height of the AIDS crisis, and reflect on the critical role of government and academic institutions in determining and communicating policy at that time. For full story click here.
The Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club story, as told by its passionate old guard of 26 life members, has been committed to film. In the hands of Tama’s resident historian Philippa Ardlie what started as an attempt to record an oral history of the surf club snowballed into a full-blown documentary – A Way of Life. For full story, click here.
The Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill is the subject of a new oral history project by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. KDLG’s Chase Cavanaugh has more on how the project got started and what perspectives it can offer on the incident. For full story click here.
The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association has preserved some of those fish tales through its Oral History Initiative, a multimedia presentation opening Wednesday at Harpswell Heritage Land Trust. Read the full article with links to videos here.
"The outbreak of World War 1—the events of July and August 1914—is being commemorated in this centenary year, and for the next four years, there will be events marking the various episodes in this terrible conflict. But the history of the war can now only be written from written sources." To read the full article which argues for the importance of oral history, click here.
The Oral History Review on OUPblog podcast is back! Today’s episode features OHR contributors Drs. Linda Crane and Tracy McDonough answering OHR Managing Editor Troy Reeves’s questions about the Schizophrenia Oral History Project and their article, “Living with Schizophrenia: Coping, Resilience, and Purpose,” which appears in the most recent Oral History Review. – See more and listen here.
Tasmania's amazing coastline and abundant fisheries give the state a unique legacy of stories from the sea. Not just the 'tall tales' fishermen are famous for. Real stories of the life, the times and the livelihoods around finfish and scallops and crays. For full story with audio click here.
The port of Timaru has been home to a thriving fishing industry for many years and now part of its commercial history will be recorded, thanks to a $20,000 New Zealand Oral History Awards grant. Timaru women Linda Hepburn and Ruth Low will use the grant to fund research and audio interviews with families who over the years have contributed to the industry.
In many ways, the world we inhabit today isn’t so dramatically different from the one that existed in 1994. The roads were full of Americans SUVs and Japanese sedans; Congress was mired in partisan dysfunction. Americans vaguely roused their enthusiasm for soccer as their team surpassed expectations in the World Cup. At night you flicked on cable, with hundreds of channels. And then there was the way you used a computer. If you had a computer, and many people did, it sat on your desk and ran programs on floppy disks. It connected to the printer and—if you were very tech savvy—to a dial-up service like America Online or Compuserve. For full story click here.