NOHANZ

Oral History News

TRAINING WORKSHOPS - More workshops have been scheduled for September and October. For details and dates see the latest Newsletter, July 2010 here . For more general information about courses offered by the ATL go here

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Wednesday 22 September, 4.30 til 7.30pm, Loaves and Fishes Hall (behind Cathedral of St Paul, corner Molesworth and Hill Streets, Wellington)

This year the AGM is being combined with a Regional get together at which Alison Parr will talk about her recently published book Home: Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War.

Please note: there are opportunities to serve on Executive in the coming year as our secretary will be standing down and others have signalled a wish to stand aside. For more information Membership

2011 NOHANZ CONFERENCE: ORAL HISTORY IN THE 21st CENTURY will be held in Rotorua April 2 and 3 2010. Proposals for papers are invited by 31 October 2010. Call for papers More information will be put on the Conferences page as it comes to hand.

NATIONAL LIBRARY REDEVELOPMENT

The building which houses the National Library of New Zealand, the Alexander Turnbull Library (and the Oral History Collection), is now closed to make way for the building redevelopment. To find out more about how this affects the Oral History Centre and its collection, and access to the library's collections see the May newsletter.

Overseas

2011 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE: Communities of Memory

To be held in Melbourne, Australia, 30 September to 2 October 2011.

For the call for papers please go here. The closing date for proposals is 31 October this year.

You might be interested in

"FROM STEPCHILD TO ELDER: HAS ORAL HISTORY BECOME RESPECTABLE?" - a Debate taking place on the IOHA website go here