Explanation or Analysis on Oral History of War

Undoubtedly, war had been one of the most important factors in the formation and development of oral history in Iran. The high volume of Interviews and the books which have been published based upon them, are indicating the importance of oral history in recording and transferring the realities of war in Iran. Despite more than two decades have passed since the start of the activities related to oral history of war, still there were debates and some basic objections from the experts and scholars in the field of how they were carried out and archived, and there was less convincing answer to them.

Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 2

We fly over Isfahan, Shiraz, the Persian Gulf and the United Arab Emirates before we land at Dubai Airport. We arrive at a bright city. The airport is itself a shiny, great, picturesque and colorful city; it has this gigantic metal-glass hall filled with big and small shops, passages and people of all races. We walk about the airport during the few hours we have to wait. The airport is built on what was once a desert and has now turned into the ticket to success for the Emirates as a transit zone.

Oral history experience weekend inspires others to capture memories

Arts Sunday is your extra dose of arts news, artist profiles and photo galleries from the NSW Central West, brought to you by Arts OutWest and Fairfax. Arts Sunday is published online on the first Sunday of the month. If you’ve got a story to share contact artsoutwest@csu.edu.au An Oral History Weekend Experience Seminar and Workshop has helped to inspire groups around the State to get working on their own oral history projects. Oral history has many applications in local and family history, heritage projects, museum exhibitions and history of institutions and associations, just to name a few. The event was hosted by Orange City Library with support from the Oral History Association Australia NSW and their trainers Trish Levido and Sandra Blamey with funding from a Country Arts Support Program grant.

Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory

This conference will set out to explore how concepts of family have been acted out, reinvented, or deconstructed, through various media including the visual arts, literature, and museum exhibitions, across the centuries. The family picture will be considered both in its figurative and art factual forms. We will look at the significance of the family picture in literary works or films (e.g. W.G. Sebald, Georges Perec¹s W, or the Memory of Childhood, or Pedro Almodovar¹s All About my Mother), and we will consider alternative concepts of family and kinship as pictured in paintings, photographs, graphic novels, and other visual media.

Wanted: Bits of old Warren

Have any bits of Warren history lying around your house? The Warren Preservation Society may want to borrow them. Organizers of the society’s Oral History Project are looking for specific items, from old ticket stubs to local milk bottles, to round out their exhibit, which starts this fall. “We have a list of specific items we need in order to round out this exhibit,” said coordinator Helen Hawkins. “It’s likely current residents have some of these items packed away in boxes or trunks.”

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