Call for Papers European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) has been held biannually since 1996 and the Oral History and Life Stories Network has met at each conference since 1998. Oral History and Life Stories is currently one of the largest, friendliest and most popular networks of the European Social Science Conference. The Network brings together oral historians and life story practitioners who use oral histories to explore memory, narrative and history.

Professor forms oral history course

History students have become filmmakers with the addition of an oral history course on campus. Juniors and seniors have the opportunity to take a class in oral history and learn how to transcribe and archive history. Justin Nystrom, assistant history professor, began teaching his freshmen seminar students how to document history and has decided to make it into a course of its own. “We’re moving into the realm of filmmaking,” Nystrom said. “I want students to be passionate about it. Have fun.”

An Oral History Of New York Food: Dining Out Wasn't Always 'In'

As Marcel Proust so famously documented, it's often the simplest of foods that can carry us back to remembrances of things past. And so perhaps it's not so surprising that, when freelance food writer Anne Noyes Saini began asking New York's elderly residents about their memories of the foods of the city during the early- to mid-20th century, it was humble meals like baked beans and the fruits sold by old-timey wagons that most often came to mind. Saini's project, an ongoing oral history called

Back to Business: A Next Step in the Field of Oral History (5)

Oral history offers an opportunity for leaders to speak about difficult periods in their professional lives, especially when they have retired and have the time to reflect on their own past. As is clear from the police commissioner’s comments, leaders in general are afraid that their acts and contributions will be misunderstood, or even worse, forgotten. This is not only a matter of arrogance or of thinking that their life has been interesting enough to be remembered in history. In extreme cases, neglecting someone’s contributions can be a case of damnatio memoriae. Damnatio memoriae is the ancient practice—most common during the Roman imperial period—of damning or condemning an individual’s memory.

Fascinating memoir and exploration of a little-known period of recent history

HANOVER, N.H., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- An oral history comprised of interviews with members of Ukrainian collective farms that were organized after the Bolshevik Revolution. Belenky explores a little-known corner of history, traveling to Ukraine to record the memories of elderly men and women. They were the children of the kolkhoz movement—a push toward collective farms first fueled by revolutionary fervor and later "encouraged" by the Soviet state, until they were disbanded in the early 1990s.

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