Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 11

We move out of the Chugoku daily; exactly called the Chugoku Shimbun daily. They say it circulates some 700,000 copies every day. It will publish an article about the meeting between members of [Iran’s] Peace Museum (us) and survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima. Here we go to the Peace Park. Everything seems to be ready to the upcoming ceremony. Erected in a corner of the park is a monument to the Hiroshima Bombing with a map of the building at its entrance and a structure at the end with a Japanese epigraph and a large clock showing 8:15; the exact time of the bombing on August 6th 1945.

IOHA CONFERENCE/MASTERCLASS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM

Scholarship application deadline: 15 December2013- For each international conference the IOHA is able to provide small grants for a limited number of participants. The IOHA Conference/Master Class Scholarship Fund aims to bring together international oral history scholars from inside and outside the academic realm, to continue building a unique global platform for professional exchange and comparative oral history inquiry.

Voices of Science: launch of new British Library website

Voices of Science: the lives of British scientists recorded in full for the first time in a new British Library oral history archive. A major oral history project to gather the life stories of British scientists has culminated today in the launch of a new online archive by the British Library. 'Voices of Science' at www.bl.uk/voices-of-science, is drawn from a National Life Stories programme 'An Oral History of British Science', and features interviews with over 100 leading UK scientists and engineers, telling the stories of some of the most remarkable scientific and engineering discoveries of the past century as well as the personal stories of each individual.

The Digitization and Democratization of Oral History

In the field of oral history, nothing has been more prominent and consequential over the last two decades than the digital revolution. High quality and affordable audio and video recorders have greatly extended oral history practice; not only is there more oral history being done, it is being done and thought about very differently. From the collection, preservation and indexing of oral history interviews, to their interpretation and presentation in diverse formats, to new ethical and legal issues, we are in the midst of what Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, editors of The Oral History Reader, have called one of the four major paradigm shifts in the field since World War II. As Michael Frisch and Douglas Lambert have recently written, "Almost every traditional assumption about the collecting, curation, and uses of oral history is collapsing in the digital age."

Working on Labor Day with Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel was a master storyteller, or maybe story-listener. His oral histories showed that with the right ear, he could make an interview something special -- he got to the heart of things, to the hearts of people. His book "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do," published in 1974, became a smash hit -- in Terkel's hands, the work lives of everyday people became fascinating.

ORAL HISTORY: A Collaborative Method of (Auto)Biography Interview (Part I)

Storytelling is a natural part of the human experience. Human beings communicate meaning through talk. Oral historians have harnessed this tradition of transmitting knowledge and created an important research technique that allows the expression of voice. While storytelling has a deep history, the adaptation of this human process into a legitimated research method is relatively new. Oral history was established in 1948 as a modern technique for historical documentation when Columbia University historian Allan Nevins began recording the memoirs of persons significant in American Life.

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