11th oral history workshop to be held in Khuzestan

An official at the Arts Bureau of the Islamic Development Organization announced that the 11th edition of oral history workshop will be held in Khuzestan Province. IBNA: Hussein Nasrollah Zanjani told IBNA that the previous edition of the workshop was held in Isfahan. The workshop will be conducted by oral history scholars like Zanjani himself, Hujatoleslam Saeid Fakhrzadeh, Mohammad Ghasempour, Alireza Kamari and Hamid Ghazvini. The workshop is arranged to last 36 hour classes. As he said, an assessment done in the city of Sari, northern Iran, it was revealed that the number of the books authored by oral history writers have been rising in the past few years.

New book to be released on Sacred Defense

40 of the best pieces submitted to the Valfajr 10 Memory Writing Festival will be published in a new book. IBNA: Speaking with IBNA, an official from the Foundation for Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Works and Values stated that as many as 110 pieces were submitted to the secretariat of the festival by 55 comrades who took part in the Valfajr 10 Operation from Mazandaran Province. As Mohammad Sadeghi asserted, 90 works were shortlisted in the first phase of assessments by the judges and in the final round, 40 were chosen to be published in a volume presented to the guests of the festival’s closing ceremony.

Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories

Founded in 1979, History Factory is a US-based pioneer of heritage management: leveraging the collective memory of organizations—the stories told, the words used, and their commonly understood meanings—to help implement strategies and tactics that shape the future. Working with clients as varied as Subaru, Campbell Soups, Prudential and Whirlpool, History Factory offers a range of products and services from publications and exhibitions to archival services and oral history. AbdelAziz EzzelArab (American University in Cairo, Egypt) Professor Abdelaziz Ezzelarab directs the American University in Cairos Economics and Business History Research Center, whose staff members have interviewed leading figures active in Egyptian business, industry, commerce, and government since the mid-20th century. He will introduce us to a unique oral history archive in Egypt, a land known for its business culture and also one which has been at the forefront of the Arab Spring.

AWAKENING ISLAM

While also a social history of the Saudi Islamist movement, Stéphane Lacroix’s Awakening Islam examines the origins of a failed “insurrection” in the early 1990s against the Saudi state by an Islamist movement it had earlier nurtured. Lacroix is a political scientist who successfully uses the historical perspective to better understand the social origins of Islamist politics in Saudi Arabia. Blending data from interviews with written sources in Arabic, French, and English, he examines its local, regional, and international dimensions, grounding the Sahwa in a broader historical narrative. Some prior knowledge of Pierre Bourdieus sociology will aid the reader as it informs the study throughout, particularly his concept of the “field.” It is to better understand the fields—these competitive spheres of the social and political landscape—that Lacroix mobilizes the historical perspective.

Oral histories reveal a different Salinas

For fun, there were endless movies. Then, across Main Street from the popcorn fragrance and red neon glow of the Fox Theater, stood the Pep Creamery, popular teen hangout. “A quarter bought you a grilled cheese sandwich and a chocolate milk shake,” Dorothy Wallace recalled. Gazing tenderly into each other’s eyes was free. The Pep Creamery is one of the Salinas images Wallace recalls when she thinks of her hometown between World War I and World War II. The National Steinbeck Center will present clips from recorded versions of her recollections and others Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Steinbeck Center, plus recordings of other long-term Salinas-area residents. They’re discussing the Salinas they knew growing up.

Ryan White AIDS story honored with oral history

KOKOMO – Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984. The next year, the 14-year-old was barred from attending Western Middle School because of the disease. What happened next brought a firestorm of media attention to Kokomo, and thrust White and the city into international headlines. For those who lived through the Ryan White saga, the story doesnt seem like a piece of history, but a vital experience. But Dave Broman, executive director of the Howard County Historical Society, said it is history, and it needs to be documented for future generations. Thats why he said the historical society recently completed an extensive oral history project documenting the firsthand experiences of 22 people who were intimately involved with White and his place in Kokomos history.

Oklahoma State faculty, students recording oral histories of Oklahomans

STILLWATER, Okla. — A group of Oklahoma State University faculty members are turning on the camera and audio recorder and allowing select people to share their stories for research and preservation. The Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at OSU contains three tenure-track faculty members, one visiting assistant professor and two students in capturing the stories. Mary Larson, the head of the program, said oral history has advantages over written history. “The problem with written history is that it focuses on prominent individuals to the exclusion of the vast majority of people who were involved in shaping history,” she said. “Oral history lets us cover those gaps. It lets us talk to everyday people and find out what their involvement was in either certain movements or certain historical moments.”

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