Political memories of Ayatollah Mohammad Khamenei unveiled

Political Memories of Ayatollah Mohammad Khamenei was unveiled during the 17th Conference held to mark Mula Sadra. IBNA: On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, a conference was held to praise Mula Sadra in the presence of Ruhollah Husseinian, member of the Islamic Assembly and head of the Islamic Revolution Document Center, at Adineh Cultural Complex. Addressing the audience at the conference, Hujatoleslam Husseinian delivered a speech about the political memories of Ayatollah Mohammad Khamenei, saying that the Islamic Revolution Document Center has published the work which is based on 120 hours of interviews with Ayatollah Khamenei about his political activities.

Best Sacred Defense works to be honored

Manager of Sacred Defense Museum Garden announced that the books published on Sacred Defense within the next 4 months will be considered by the garden’s experts and the best ones will be honored. IBNA: Speaking with IBNA, Commander Jawad Khazraei stated that free membership in the center's library on May 24 and 25 parallel with the anniversary of the liberation of Khoramshahr is one of the programs of the center to mark the event. He further added that the center endorses all the Sacred Defense publications which will be published within the next 4 months and will honor the best ones. The period is marked to begin with the anniversary of liberation of Khoramshahr and end with the Sacred Defense Week.

Who Owns Oral History?

Who “owns” oral history? When an oral history narrator shares her story in response to questions posed by an interviewer, and the recording and transcript are deposited in an archive, who holds the rights to these historical source materials? Who decides whether or not they may be shared with the public, quoted in a publication, or uploaded to the web? Who decides whether someone has the right to earn money from including an interview in a commercially distributed book, video, or website? Furthermore, does Creative Commons, a licensing tool developed by the open access movement to protect copyright while increasing public distribution, offer a better solution to these questions than existing oral history protocols?

Oral histories and archiving memories in South Africa

There is a great need in South Africa – and probably elsewhere – to safeguard intangible heritage by collecting, recording and archiving memories of community members from different parts of the country. Conservation of these memories requires the use of oral history, testimonies and personal recollections of the quotidian. The National Film Video and Sound Archives (a component of the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa), the Centre for Popular Memory, CPM, (at the University of Cape Town), the Wits History Workshop, South ...

fire in Anne Arundel's, 50 years later

Joseph Ross of Linthicum stands on Dorsey Road in Glen Burnie, the point of origin for a series of brush fires that swept across much of northern Anne Arundel County on April 20, 1963. He is writing an oral history to show the impact of that day on county firefighting. Joseph Ross sits at his computer, opens Google Maps and types in “Dorsey Road.” He clicks the search button. When the map appears, he points to the spot where he stood 50 years ago, as he witnessed one of the biggest fires in Anne Arundel County history. He moves his finger around the screen, pointing to hot spots where the fires spread, engulfing big stretches of land in Glen Burnie, Severn and other areas.

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