Sessions
2025-09-16
Keynote lecture: Rememory and Repair in a World of Collective Trauma
(Video available at Recordings).
Documenting and Preserving
Chair: Andrea Casa Nova Maia
- Susri Bhattacharya: Documentary Past: An Aural Process of Curating Voices as Collective Individualities in the Works of Alexievich
- Edeyan Maya Omoweh: Embodied Histories: Negotiating Pathways to Recording Child-Maternal Traditions Facing Extinction in Rural Nigerian Villages.
- Ermioni Anastasiadi: From Intimate Conversations to Enduring Records: Empowering Communities to Preserve Their Stories Through Digital Archiving of Oral Histories
- Amy Starecheski: Oral History and History Keeping: Learning from Grassroots Oral Historians in the South Bronx
Oral Histories of Political Violence
Chair: Alistar Thomson
- Erin Jessee: Negotiating Long-term Research Access in Authoritarian Contexts: Lessons from Rwanda
- Hourig Attarian: Teaching Oral History in Times of War: Pedagogy as Survival Mechanism
- Monica Eileen Patterson: “Protection as Exclusion: The Missing Voices of Children in Crisis Oral Historical Research”
- Annie Pohlman: The Indonesia Trauma Testimony Project (ITTP): Last Chance Collecting of Oral Histories of the 1965-66 Indonesian Massacres
- Kathryn Nasstrom: The Tibetan Land Speaks: Oral Histories of Political Violence and the Land
Oral History at a Distance: Reflecting on Our Practice in a New Era
Chair: Mark Wong
- Adrienne Cain Darough: Oral History at a Distance: Reflections on Ethical Practices in a New Era
- Michelle Holland: Oral History At A Distance: Reflections on Managing Projects In A New Era
- Stephen Sloan: Oral History and Remote Interviewing
- Albert Lichtblau: How much is Oral History Changing Due to The Possibility of Virtual Conversations Around The World?
- Margalit Bejarano: Vulnerability Under Lockdown: Interviews with Elderly Jews During the Covid 19 Pandemic, with Emphasis on Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro
Audiovisual Presentations I
Chair: Ewelina Szpak
- Avishek Biswas: Unheard Voices of Bengali Dalit (Lower Caste) Partition Survivors: Giving the Marginalized Voices Access to Public Discourses
- Outi Fingerroos: In Memoriam / Islanders
- Matleena Jänis: In Memoriam / Islanders
- Maija Krūmiņa: Riga Porcelain Factory in the Memories of Former Employees: the Walking Methodology in the Studying of Industrial Heritage
- Maruta Pranka: Riga Porcelain Factory in the Memories of Former Employees: the Walking Methodology in the Studying of Industrial Heritage
- Ginta Elksne: Riga Porcelain Factory in the Memories of Former Employees: the Walking Methodology in the Studying of Industrial Heritage
Multilingualism and Dissemination
Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska
- Elmar Gams: The Kogu Me Lugu Oral History Portal: Disseminating Oral History and Multilingualism in Practice
- Anna West: Speaking “Czechlish”: Multilingual Memory in Oral History Interviews with Czech Immigrants
- Madeline White: New Approaches to Disseminating Oral History: The UK Holocaust Testimony Portal and Comparative Testimony
- Bea Lewkowicz: New Approaches to Disseminating Oral History: The UK Holocaust Testimony Portal and Comparative Testimony
- Jena Keshab Chandra: Preserving Voices: Multilingual Oral Histories of Lower-Caste Communities in India
- Rajesh Prasad: Preserving Voices: Multilingual Oral Histories of Lower-Caste Communities in India
- Leysi Rubio Arevich: Empowering Identity Through Podcasting: an Examination of the Cuban Podcast Lo Llevamos Rizo Radio
Migration, Heritage and Lifestyle
Chair: James Deutsch
- Martha Nchimunya Kayuni: Hunting and Medicine: Recentring Oral History in Zooarchaeology in Kafue Flats and Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia.
- Miao Tian: The Development of Oral History in China: The Rise of Locality and the Challenges of Globality
- Tanisha Bhadury: Will My Interview Help?: Use of Oral History in Partition Studies
- Vivian Fonseca: Oral History and the History of Sport in Africa: A Historiographical Review
- Augusto Nascimento: Oral History and the History of Sport in Africa: A Historiographical Review
- Johnnie Anderson: Moveable Feasts: Exploring Memories of Food, Migration and Glasgow (1960-1995)
Power and Resistence
Chair: Miren Llona
- Graciela Ruth Browarnik: Los Monstruos Son Ellos. Formas de Provocación con Títeres Durante la Posdictadura
- Wladimyr Araújo: Artefactos de la Memoria A Través de Narrativas de un Líder Político indígena Bororo en el Centro-Oeste Brasileño
- Américo Oscar Guichard Freire: ¿Quién Quiere Ser Candidato en Tiempos de Crisis? Una Investigación Sobre Candidaturas y Derrotas Políticas
- Lucas Carnevale Machado: 80 Años del Fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Narrativas de la Participación Paraense en la Fuerza Expedicionaria Brasileña (FEB) y la Lucha Contra el Totalitarismo
- Roberto de Castro: 80 Años del Fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Narrativas de la Participación Paraense en la Fuerza Expedicionaria Brasileña (FEB) y la Lucha Contra el Totalitarismo
- Osorio Riveros Hugo: Recordar Para Sanar. Historia Oral y Prácticas Artísticas Testimoniales de la Prisión Política en Chile
- Francisca Duran Mateluna: Recordar Para Sanar. Historia Oral y Prácticas Artísticas Testimoniales de la Prisión Política en Chile
2025-09-17
Plenary discussion: Oral Historians Facing Crises: Attitudes, Fears, and Hopes
(Video available at Recordings).
Oral History and Memory in Post-War Settings: Methodology, Application, and Dissemination in Lebanon and Kosovo
Chair: Outi Fingerroos
- Maria Bashshur Abunnasr: Empowering Community-Based Oral History
- Jenny Munro: Oral History and Collective Trauma: a Way to Transform Conflict?
- Anthony Tawil: Maabar: Preserving Memory and Addressing Lebanon’s Contested History Through Audio Storytelling.
- Korab Krasniqi: Hijacked Childhoods: Agency, Memory, and Representation
- Jeta Rexha: Digital Memories: Archiving Post-Conflict Narratives in Kosovo
Quo Vadis, Wartime Oral History?
Chair: Gelinada Grinchenko
- Iuliia Skubytska: Oral History as History of the Self: Design Solutions for Wartime Interviewing and Archiving Projects
- Oksana Mikheieva: When and How Testimonies Become History: the Possibilities and Limitations of Data Collection in the Context of Events
- Svitlana Telukha: Visualizing Narratives: Making Interviews Public in Times of Ongoing War
- Natalia Khanenko-Friesen: Wartime Oral History in Ukraine: On Testimony Production and the Challenges of Representation
- Petro Dolhanov: Narrating the Wars: WWII and Contemporary Russian-Ukrainian War in Witness Testimonies
Post-memory and Institutions
Chair: Martha Norkunas
- Natalie Milbrodt: The University That Belongs to Everyone: Building an Oral History Project to Challenge and Celebrate CUNY’s Role as a Public Good
- Paul Sendziuk: Protecting the Hands that Built ‘Australia’s Own Car’: Health and Safety at General Motors-Holden
- Hannah Kaarina Yoken: Present Threats, Past Protest: Re-Thinking Anti-Nuclear Marches in 1980s Finland
- Anastasiia Bozhenko: Decolonising the Nuclear Physics: a Potential of Oral History (Case of Kharkiv Physics and Technic Institute)
- Viacheslav Grekov: Decolonising the Nuclear Physics: a Potential of Oral History (Case of Kharkiv Physics and Technic Institute)
- John Choo: Margins in Context: Interviews with the Nominated Members of Parliament of Singapore
Audiovisual Presentations II
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
- Eriko Yamamoto: Daichiyo! (The Mother Earth!): The Ainu Messages to the World through Shizue Ukaji’s Interviews and Artwork
Migrations and Refugees I
Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu
- Arzu ÖztÜrkmen: Recontextualizing Migration Memory: Oral History Research of Post-Ottoman Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
- Jesper Johansson: Narratives of Belonging – Intersections of Place, Space and Time in Archived Migrant Narratives from the Collection MIGTALKs
- Dennis Möbus: Migration and Making Home - Computer-Based Secondary Analyses of Large Interview Collections
- Philipp Bayerschmidt: Migration and Making Home - Computer-Based Secondary Analyses of Large Interview Collections
- Thuy Vo Dang: Oral Histories of Refugee Returnees in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
- Linde Apel: Co-Creating Migration Memories. Oral Histories of Arrival and Agency
Silenced Voices and Identity
Chair: Lavinia Snejana
- Anne Cardenas: Identity and Legacy: Oral Histories of the Kindertransport in Wales
- Peter Bjorklund: Meanings of Home Through Ceremonies for Karen Refugees from Burma in Sheffield
- Hibiki Takeda: Rethinking the majority side of dealing with Oral History: reflections on overcoming colonialism and imperialism
- Mark Wong: Re-thinking Singapore’s History Through Japanese Occupation Oral History Interviews
- Tetiana Boriak: “Thanks for Recollecting Us, that we Starved Formerly”: Holodomor Oral History as an Example of Overcoming Trauma and Colonial Identity
Oral History Goes Digital
Chair: Leslie McCartney
- Almut Leh: Thinking “Oral-History.Digital”. Recent Experiences with a Web-Based Infrastructure for Oral History Interviews
- Cord Pagenstecher: Thinking “Oral-History.Digital”. Recent Experiences with a Web-Based Infrastructure for Oral History Interviews
- Sumallya Mukhopadhyay: The Curator’s Role in Digital Oral History Projects: A Case Study Based on the Virtual-Kolkata Partition Museum
- Andrea Althaus: Re-Thinking Oral History Archives: Considerations for a More Diverse and Inclusive Archival Practice
- Ninna de Araújo Carneiro Lima: Oral History and Public Access: CPDOC’s Digital Strategies
- Chayanika Bhaduri: Locating the History of Emotions: Combining Oral History and Digital Ethnography
Oral History Projects
Chair: Mark Wong
- Shepard Forman: Oral History, Auto-Ethnography, and a Living Archive
- Guilherme Caeiro de Mattos: Oral History, Auto-Ethnography, and a Living Archive
- Alexandra Joy Forman: Oral History, Auto-Ethnography, and a Living Archive
- Sean Adams: Nearby Economies: Integrating Oral History into American Business History
- Paula de la Cruz-Fernández: Nearby Economies: Integrating Oral History into American Business History
- Steve Witt: Preserving IFLA (International Federation Library Associations) Professional Memory: The SIG Library History Oral History Project
- Anna Maria Tammaro: Preserving IFLA (International Federation Library Associations) Professional Memory: The SIG Library History Oral History Project
- Wang Lei: Preserving IFLA (International Federation Library Associations) Professional Memory: The SIG Library History Oral History Project
- Patrick Urru: Preserving IFLA (International Federation Library Associations) Professional Memory: The SIG Library History Oral History Project
- Adriana Kapała: Oral History in Polish Community Archives – Research Results
- Chiara Paris: Tracing the Origins of Italian Oral History: A Case Study on Ernesto de Martino Institute and Its International Network
Postmemory
Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska
- Chama Kaluba Jickson: “Icimbo ca Malilo” as Oral History: Social and Therapeutic Role of a Funeral Dirge in Post-colonial Zambia
- Isao Kato: The Divergence of Samba Practices Between Brazil and Japan: A Comparative Study of Cultural and Political Influences from Voice of Them
- Magdalena Bubík: The Haunting Painting of Jesus. Obstacles and Alternatives in Conducting Oral History Research within Post-Displacement Regions
- Akiko Mizutani: Possibilities of Practices and Oral Histories of People Who Inherit Memories and Records
- Dariusz Nikiel: In the Postmemory and Cultural Memory Regime: The Passing of the Second World War Witness Generation and Ethnographic Research
The Aftermath of October 7th 2023: a Challenge to Yiddishists’ Ideas and Practices about Oral History
Chair: Ben Rogaly
- Ben Rogaly: Facing the Trouble: Cultural Workers in Yiddishland, Political Zionism, and the Movement for Palestinian Liberation
- Tal Hever-Chybowski: The Devastation of Gaza: Historical Perspectives of a Yiddish Poem
- Annabel Gottfried Cohen: Far Ayer un Undzer Frayhayt – For Your Freedom and for Ours – Oral histories of Jewish International Brigade Volunteers and What We Can Learn from Them in These Dfficult Times
- Zach Smerin: (Re)collecting Oral History the Aftermath of Tragedy: The Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland after WW2 and the Gaza War
- Joseph Finlay: Jewish Feelings: Oral Histories and Emotions of British Jews in Israel’s Wars of 1967 and of 1967 and 2023/4
Audiovisual Presentations III
Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
- Madeline Alexander: Redesigning Oral History Archives with Data
- Christopher Pandza: Redesigning Oral History Archives with Data
- Łukasz Knasiecki: Redesigning Oral History Archives with Data
- Magdalena Kęsik: Redesigning Oral History Archives with Data
- Martha Norkunas: Animating Voices
- Nina Sabnani: Animating Voices
Emotions and Therapy
Chair: David Beorlegui
- Felicitas Söhner: Oral History and Confronting the Past: Memory, Trauma, and Justice in European Historical Reappraisal
- Roman Smirnov: (E)Motion Sickness Warning: The Challenge of (Hyper-)Emotionalization in Immersive VR Interviews with Contemporary Witnesses
- Nazan Çiçek: “I Kept it to Myself for Seventy Years. I am Glad You Asked”: Reflections on the Therapeutic Aspects of Oral History
- Evren Ahmet Demir: “I Kept it to Myself for Seventy Years. I am Glad You Asked”: Reflections on the Therapeutic Aspects of Oral History
- Tomoyo Nakao: Healing Through Oral History: A Complex Journey of Forgiveness and Accountability
- Krista Christensen: Healing Old Wounds: The Therapeutic Role of Oral History Sharing in Aboriginal Culture
- Belinda Russon Nayanar: Healing Old Wounds: The Therapeutic Role of Oral History Sharing in Aboriginal Culture
Migrations and Refugees II
Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa
- Stephanie M Huezo: Precarity, Truths, and Politics: Experiences of a Political Caravan for Permanent Residency in the U.S.
- Anabelle Selvaggio: Remembering Home Across Borders, Oceans, and Time: Oral Histories of Italian Migration to Australia
- Olga Zabalueva: Urgent Documentation in Swedish Museum Context: Circulation of Oral Histories from “Refugee Crisis” 2015
- Maija Krūmiņa: Navigating Post-Exile: Experiences of Return through Oral History
- Ginta Elksne: Navigating Post-Exile: Experiences of Return through Oral History
- Maruta Pranka: Latvian Migration Waves: Identity, Memory, and the Diaspora Experience
- Ginta Elksne: Latvian Migration Waves: Identity, Memory, and the Diaspora Experience
Ethics and Methdology
Chair: Outi Fingerroos
- James Karmel: The Universality of Civil Rights in Oral History
- Bjørn Enes: Oral History and Storytelling – Rethinking the Difference
- Sharon Livne: What Can We Learn from a Historical Miniature
- Antonis Antoniou: Storytelling vs Oral History: Friends or Foes? A Case Study from Greece
- Riki Van Boeschoten: Storytelling vs Oral History: Friends or Foes? A Case Study from Greece
- Yvonne McFadden: Storytelling or Oral History: Reflections on Storytelling Workshops
Methodology and Ethics
Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska
- Shushan Khachatryan: On The History and Methodology of the Armenian Genocide Oral History Making from 1915 Until Now
- Sean Visintainer: Letting go of Traditions to Embrace Tradition: Subverting Expectations in Oral History and Creating Space for New Ideas and Approaches
- Jennifer Ho: Letting go of Traditions to Embrace Tradition: Subverting Expectations in Oral History and Creating Space for New Ideas and Approaches
- Vanessa Corrado: Joining Together the Researcher and the Field Mediator in the Oral History Interview
- Nilanjan Dutta: Joining Together the Researcher and the Field Mediator in the Oral History Interview
- Jakub Gałęziowski: Through Biographical Research to Creating Common Space for Advancing the Past and Present. Historical and Sociological Perspective
- Kaja Kaźmierska: Through Biographical Research to Creating Common Space for Advancing the Past and Present. Historical and Sociological Perspective
- Rachel Pierce: Gothenburg’s 1968: Piecing together a movement, piecing together a project
- Martin Linde: Gothenburg’s 1968: Piecing together a movement, piecing together a project
- Martin Ohman: Gothenburg’s 1968: Piecing together a movement, piecing together a project
Oral History and Epidemics Across Borders: Transnational, Marginalised and Temporal Responses
Chair: Alistar Thomson
- Nikki Henningham: “People Were Kinder this Time”: An Australian Woman Compares Her Experiences of Life and Loss During Two Pandemics, Thirty Years Apart
- Wendy Rickard: A Case Study of Pandemic History: A Scoping Review of the Global Legacy, Discoverability, Dissemination and Contested Nature of HIV Oral Histories
- Shirleene Robinson: Emotions, then and Now: Comparing Oral Histories of the 1919 Influenza Pandemic and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 1992-1999 in Australia
- George Severs: Remembering and Narrating Black Responses to HIV/AIDS in Britain
- Katarzyna Szarla: Intimacy and Ethics: Navigating Oral Histories of the HIV/AIDS Crisis
Ethics and Health
Chair: Lavinia Snejana Costea
- Eline Pollaert: Rethinking ‘Oral’ History Ethics from a Deaf and Disabled Perspective
- Kirstie Stage: Rethinking ‘Oral’ History Ethics from a Deaf and Disabled Perspective
- Outi Ahonen: Deaf Memories - How to Study?
- Pooja Sagar: Resistance and Agency in a Medical Multiverse: Intersubjectivity and Oral Histories of Ilness
- Sarah Ahmed: The (Re)Discovery of Lost Archives of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (1970–1990): Oral History as an Ethnography of the Archive
- Verusca Calabria: Participatory Oral History for Social Change: Collaborative Approaches to Mental Health Research
- Jiří Hlaváček: Healing or opening wounds? Oral History and Ethics in Emergency Medical Services Research (1974–2003)
Audiovisual Presentations IV
Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
- Mao Mengou: National Library of China: An Oral History (documentary)
- Miao Tian: National Library of China: An Oral History (documentary)
In Between? Bridging Histories: Challenges and Innovations in Documenting European Borderlands
Chair: Ewelina Szpak
- Naum Trajanovski: “In-Between?” Goes to the Balkans: The 2017 Study Visits in Mostar and the Prespa Lakes Region
- John Beauchamp: Digesting Oral History in Broadcast Production
- Liana Blikharska: Reflections on the 2021 Edition of “In Between?” and the Role of Oral History in Challenging Times
- Joanna Orłoś: In Between? Exploring Local Histories of European Borderlands
- Annemarie Franke: Encounter of Visual History and Oral Testimonies
Oral History and Memory Studies
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
- Siobhan McHugh: Investigating Collective Memories of a ‘Gay Prison’ in an Award-Winning Podcast: Navigating Ethics, Trust and Trauma
- Agnieszka Nowakowska: Teachers as Storytellers – Linking Memory Studies and Oral History
- Magda Heydel: Shoah after 40 years. New Perspectives on Interviews with Polish Communal Subjects
- Roma Sendyka: Shoah after 40 years. New Perspectives on Interviews with Polish Communal Subjects
- Elżbieta Kwiecińska: Ukrainian National Identity Declared with Russian Birthplace in a Passport. Ukrainian Refugees in Poland Against their Russian Biographical Moments After the Russian Full-Scale Invasion 2022
- Paula Cuellar: The Power of Testimony in a Post-Conflict Societies. Documenting Cases of Rape in El Salvador in the Aftermath of its Armed Conflict
Music and Art
Chair: Andrea Casa
- Fidelis Kioko Makali: The Renaissance of Benga Music in Ukambani Region in Kenya, 1970-1990
- Oluwatosin John Ibitoye: Musicking Oral History: The Yorùbá Omolúàbí Philosophy in a Glocal Context
- Tomasz Krajewski: Oral History of Warsaw Rap: Artistic Transformation and Collaboration with Musicians
- Jon Sewell: Under the Dominant Beat: Investigating the Musical Landscapes that Shaped Music City
- Daisy Perelmutter: Memories and Sensible Marks of Brazilian Black Visual Artists
2025-09-18
Keynote lecture: Oral History and Climate Change: Testaments of Weirding
(Video available at Recordings).
Oral History Fieldwork and Archives
Chair: Alistar Thomson
- Ummul Muhseneen: Lost in Translation: Challenging Language Barriers in Oral History Practices
- Reem Maghribi: Adapting Approaches to Sociopolitical Contexts: the Arabic Speaking Region as an Experiential Example
- Maria Bashshur Abunnasr: Precarity and [Oral History] Practice: Palestinian Educators in Exile
- Jonila Godole: From Family Narratives to the Classroom: Competitions, Documentaries, and Oral History in Albania
- Marieta de Moraes Ferreira: Silenced Voices: Social Demands and Teaching History
Minorities
Chair: Marek Szajda
- Chiara Nencioni: Roma Subaltern Memories
- Ntobeko Dlamini: Unheard Voices: Stories of LGBTI+ Clergy in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
- Sagar Jhariya: Globalization and Cultural Transformation: The Case of Gond Oral and Visual Narrative
- Mallory Cerkleski: Inclusive Histories: A Collaborative Approach to Malayalam Oral Histories
- Sarah Foss: Toward a More Inclusive State History: The Latino Oklahoma Oral History Project
Environment
Chair: Andrea Casa Nova Maia
- Maitha Salman Al Zaabi: Voices of the Past: Senior Citizens’ Role in Environmental Conservation in the UAE
- Michal Louc: The Oral History of Deployment of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in Emergencies & Natural Disasters
- Antonino Sciotto: “Maybe we did something” - An Oral History of the Alter-Globalization Movement in Bologna
- Naum Trajanovski: Skopje, the City of Solidarity: The Oral Histories of the 1963 Skopje Earthquake and the Post-Earthquake Urban Reconstruction
- David Beorlegui Zarranz: Reflexiones Sobre Desindustrialización Nociva Desde El Prisma de la Historia Oral Ambiental: El Caso de las áreas de Estuario de Bizkaia (España) Desde 1977 Hasta El Presente
Audiovisual Presentations V
Chair: Mark Wong
- Ricardo Viviani: Beyond Words: Crafting Oral Histories in Dance and the Arts
- Cynthia Tobar: American Icons: Amplifying Community Voices in Public Art & Education
- Silvia Patricia López-Sánchez: Vegetable Tanning in Barrio Arriba, León, Gto., Mexico The Rescue of a Technique in Danger of Extinction
- Maricruz Romero-Ugalde: Vegetable Tanning in Barrio Arriba, León, Gto., Mexico The Rescue of a Technique in Danger of Extinction
Oral History, Memory and Memorialization in the Aftermath of Violence and Political Repression
Chair: Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
- Adam Hradilek: Testimonies of Czechoslovak Survivors of the Gulag in the Light of NKVD Documents
- Svitlana Makhovska: Chornobyl Zone between Two Historic Crimes (1986/2022): Oral History and Memorialization of the Disaster
- Liana Blikharska: Retold War: Oral History Projects and Narratives about the Second World War in Contemporary Ukraine
- Ann Petrila: The Srebrenica Genocide Oral History: An Academic Approach
- Hasan Hasanović: The Srebrenica Genocide Oral History: An Academic Approach
- Olha Salo: Oral History and Museums: The Case of Preserving and Representing Oral Historical Memory in Ukraine’s National Museum of Revolution of Dignity
Education
Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa
- Yvonne Kabombwe: Oral History as a Decolonial Pedagogy in History Education for Pre- Service Teachers in Postcolonial Zambia
- Brannon Smithwick: Educating Generations: The Legacy and Future of the Allen-White School Campus, a Rosenwald School in Whiteville, Tennessee
- Rosa Schling: Designing Training Programmes with Community-Led Oral History Projects
- Camille Johnston: Designing Training Programmes with Community-Led Oral History Projects
- Isabelle Carter: Oral History in the Classroom: Successes and Challenges
- Ellen Bishop: Oral History in the Classroom: Successes and Challenges
- Katarzyna Starecka: Japanese Collections of Oral Testimonies of the Asia-Pacific War as Resources for Peace Education
Digital Oral History
Chair: Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
- Angelo Agosti: Oral History and New Forms of Digital Public History: Meta-Archives and WWI
- Erin McCarthy: The Evolution of Oral History Pedagogy: Project Design which Prioritizes Access, the Columbia College Chicago Oral History Model.
- Jun Oguro: How Did a Seasoned Director Describe the Life of a Vietnam War Deserter Sheltered in Japan 47 Years Ago? In the Case of “A Deserter Who Came to My Home” (2015)
- H. Deborah Kwak: Korean Memories Project: Using Technology to Document Historical Perspectives
- Alice Wrigglesworth: Korean Memories Project: Using Technology to Document Historical Perspectives
- Lynnette G. Leonard: Korean Memories Project: Using Technology to Document Historical Perspectives
- Julianne Nyhan: Non-verbal and paralinguistic expressions in an academic community oral history: a multimodal digital oral history analysis
Oral History and Families: a Neglected Methodological Frontier. Exploring the Ethics, Politics, Archives and the Afterlives of Oral History Interviews and the Family
Chair: Mary Stewart
- Mary Stewart: Busting the Myth of ‘Cosy’ Family History: Exploring the Complex Ethics of Telling, Listening and Accessing Family Stories in Both Public and Private Archives
- Michelle Winslow: Having His Voice on CD is the Most Precious Thing I Could Have”: Are Oral Histories Recorded at the End of Life Always a Comfort for Family?
- Sam Smith: The Role of Family When Co-Creating Defined and Undefined Oral Histories in Palliative and Supportive Care
- Keira Gomez: “I Wouldn’t Have Spoken to Her About it Otherwise”: the Family Oral History Interview as a Catalyst for Change
- Barbara Einhorn: Reconnecting Broken Threads Through Oral History and Archival Research: Healing Encounters in Grybow, Poland
Institutional OH Programs: Re-thinking the Relationships with Their Communities
Chair: Stephen Sloan
- Troy Reeves: “Interviewing People Who Don’t Look Like Me”: Re-thinking Who We Interview (and Why)
- Todd Moye: “Meeting Them Where They Are”: Collaborations That Create Value for the Communities Being Interviewed
- Douglas Boyd: Too Much of a Good Thing? Using AI to Rescue a Community Oral History Project
- Stephen Sloan: Going Local: Applying Oral History to Explore Counternarratives of Campus Communities
- Natalie Fousekis: Learning from Our Neighbors: How Community Partnerships Can Challenge and Refine Our Oral History Practice
Women in Oral History 1
Chair: Dobrochna Kałwa
- Ricardo Santhiago: It’s Not All Roses… Sometimes, It’s Orchids: The Emotional (Oral) History of An All-Female Band
- Lenka Krátká: Gender Imbalance in Oral History Projects and its Impact on Scientific Results (a Case Study of Czech Historiography)
- Ángel Benavente Serra: Testimonies of Life and Death: Memoirs of Franco’s Women’s Prisons and Their Educational Possibilities
- Sundari Anitha: The Oral Histories of Polish Migrant Women in Violent Relationships: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform the Development of Domestic Abuse Services in the UK and Europe
- Ros Kane: The Oral Histories of Polish Migrant Women in Violent Relationships: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform the Development of Domestic Abuse Services in the UK and Europe
- Michael Rasell: The Oral Histories of Polish Migrant Women in Violent Relationships: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform the Development of Domestic Abuse Services in the UK and Europe
- Iwona Zielinska: The Oral Histories of Polish Migrant Women in Violent Relationships: Developing an Evidence Base to Inform the Development of Domestic Abuse Services in the UK and Europe
- Kate Orazem: Our Chosen Work, Our Rightful Place: Women, Oral History, and Political Conflict in the United States
A Life of Listening
Chair: Martha Norkunas
- Pilar Domínguez Prats: Dando Voz a Las Mujeres Silenciadas
- Miren Llona: La Historia Oral Feminista. Escuchando Las Memorias de Las Mujeres
- Alessandro Portelli: Learning to Listen
Family Remembrance, “Received Memory,” and Holocaust
Chair: Michael Frisch
- Pamela Chodosh: Family Remembrance, “Received Memory,” and Holocaust Oral History - OIHA 2025
- Mary Gordon: The Interactions of Family Oral History Memories
- Mark Silber: Family Album – a Chronicler’s Coded Message
- Michael Frisch: Family Zoom Meetings and Informal Recordings as Documents of “Received Memory”: Emerging Oral History Tools and Approaches
- Eve Puodžiūnaitė Wicks: Innovation Combining Oral History and Photographic Research Methodologies: Writing Compelling Poetic Prose in a Lithuanian Community Study
Marginalised Voices and Histories
Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu
- Mehtap Tosun: The Testing of Silenced and Marginalised Voices with the Discourse of the State and the Public Space in Turkey
- Chaisung Lim: Colonial Korean Railroad and Japanese Youth Employees: Memories of the Seonkokai
- Kirsti Salmi-Niklander: Bachelor Gangs and Political Divisions – Rethinking Finnish Oral Histories in a Canadian Multiethnic Mining Community
- Sutapa Das: Reclaiming Voices, Reframing History: Oral Narratives and the Human Dimension of Partition of India
- Arlene Crampsie: Empowering Communities Through Oral History – the Coastal Uplands: Heritage and Tourism Project
War and Soldiers
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
- Pavel Stehlík: Experiences and Findings from Oral History Field Research of the Czech Soldiers Deployed in Lithuania and Slovakia as a Part of NATO’s Military Presence During the War in Ukraine
- Ulla Lachauer: A Storytelling Café in Lüneburg, a Small Town in the German North. Testimonies from War and Exile
- Alexander Prenninger: The Tale of the Capos
- Sven Deppisch: Lending an Ear to German Soldiers. The Oral History Project of the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences
- Lucie Felcan Rajlová: The Voice of the Soldiers: Oral History as a Form for the Therapeutic Processing of Military Experience and Trauma
Memory and Heritage
Chair: Miao Tian
- Feyi Raimi-Abraham: Liming: An Invaluable Source of Caribbean Oral History
- Stephen Urgola: Oral history vs. Memory Monoculture: Initiatives at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo in Egypt
- Wang Hao: Craftsmanship and Memory: Archives Establishment and Public Dissemination of the Oral History from the Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Wang Lei: Craftsmanship and Memory: Archives Establishment and Public Dissemination of the Oral History from the Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Cheng Huanwen: Craftsmanship and Memory: Archives Establishment and Public Dissemination of the Oral History from the Inheritors of Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Marta Guerreiro Bernardino: When (grant)parents tell … A study of (post)colonial memories within Congolese families in Belgium (1950-2023)
- María del Carmen Ordóñez Avila: Threading Voices: Analyzing Communal Participation in Preserving Oral Tradition Pertaining Creative Processes Associated with Craftsmanship
Power and Protest
Chair: Miren Llona
- Vicent Bellver-Loizaga: Política(s) de la Intimidad. Radicalidades y Uso de lo Intimo en España, 1980-2000
- Jiani Fernando Langaro: Contribuciones de la Historia Oral al Estudio de la Vida de los(as) Trabajadores(as) de la Frontera Brasileña con Paraguay y Argentina en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XX
- Karemi Odeth García Arias: Del Silencio a la Acción: Subjetivación Política en El Paro Feminista de la UAM
- Eva Daniela Sandoval Espejo: Las Mujeres Guerrilleras del Partido de los Pobres, Atoyac, Guerrero Entre 1967 y 1974
- Camilo Igua Torres: Archivo de Relatos Orales en Fuga: ¿Qué Abanico de Regímenes, de Leyes, de Prohibiciones, de Castigos Dictarán Nuestros Sueños?
Trauma and Emotions
Chair: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska
- Roni Mikel-Arieli: Documenting Trauma: Collecting Oral Histories of the October 7 Attacks and the War that Followed
- Sharon Kangisser Cohen: “I Had to Listen and Appear as Unmoved as Possible”: How did Care Workers Relate to Child Survivors’ Sharing their War-Time Experiences?
- Rapaport Sharon: Fragments of Memory: A Therapeutic Oral History Approach to Trauma Narratives
- Anna Di Lellio Crawford: “Like a Sack of Garbage that Everyone Wants to Put Away:” How to Listen to Stigmatized Survivors of Kosovo Wartime Rape
- Michael John: Home Children and Oral History. Remember. Compensate. Reconcile?
Audiovisual Presentations VI
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
- Jody Stokes-Casey: Lost Futures and Persistent Past
- Chad Eby: Lost Futures and Persistent Past
Visualization of Oral History for Social Change – Documentaries, Video Exhibition, Graphic Novel. Challenges, Ethics and Impact
Chair: Alina Doboszewska
- Alina Doboszewska: Oral History Films as a Tool for Social Change. Ethical Issues
- Monika Szewczyk: Non-Obvious Disenchantment. Roma in Oral History Films
- Gelinada Grinchenko: On Both Sides of the Screen: The Researcher and the Arrangement of Oral History in a Documentary Film
- Svitlana Telukha: Visualization of Trauma in the Educational Context: Ethics and Sources
- Hasan Hasanović: Oral History in the Srebrenica Genocide Documentaries and Video Exhibitions
Education and Dissemination
Chair: James Deutsch
- Józef Markiewicz: Witnessing Personal History in Public Space: Autobiographical Narratives of Polish Jews on the You Tube Platform – Between Oral History and Visual Ethnography
- Christa P. Whitney: The Role of Yiddish in Individual and Communal Identity Formation in Historical, Mythical, and Contemporary Lithuania
- Ren Rong Chong: Seeing the Spoken Word: Curating Oral Histories in a Visual World
- Vivian Fonseca: Oral History at FGV CPDOC: Preservation and Dissemination Experiences
- Tomas Mac Conmara: A Greater Listening – Landscape, Place and Recognition in Community Oral History Practice
Gathering, Archiving, Disclosing: Oral History of the Ukrainian Experience of 2022- Russian Aggression
Chair: Kaja Kaźmierska
- Natalia Otrishchenko: What is Sensitive, and for Whom? Sensitive Information in War Testimonies
- Anna Wylegała: What is Sensitive, and for Whom? Sensitive Information in War Testimonies
- Olha Krasko: The Interviewer’s Sincere Autoethnography: what does it Mean to be Both a Researcher and a Ukrainian in the Project of Interviewing Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
- Valentyna Shevchenko: Codifying Sensitive Information Into Metadata: Potential and Challenges
- Machteld Venken: A (Human) Geography of Ukrainian Migration Testimonies of the War and Visualisation Criticism
- Inna Ganschow: Digitally Preserving and Disclosing Ukrainian Testimonies of the War
2025-09-19
Plenary discussion: Oral history and community archives – intersections and impacts
(Video available at Recordings).
Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools
Chair: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska
- Farina King: Listening and Learning Native American Boarding School Oral Histories of “Intergenerational Strength”
- Janne Lahti: Working Toward Whiteness: The Indigenous Experience of Training and Outing in a Settler Colonial Industrial School in the United States
- R. Rene Kemble: Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools: Engaging Oral History Toward Teaching Complex Histories
- Erin Dyke: Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools: Engaging Oral History Toward Teaching Complex Histories
- Lisa Lynn Brooks: Indigenous Truthtelling of U.S. Boarding Schools: Engaging Oral History Toward Teaching Complex Histories
- Sarah Milligan: “We don’t like to focus on the bad:” Balancing Individual Testimony and National Remembering
Oral History Intergenerational Transmission
Chair: James Deutsch
- Leslie McCartney: A Gift from Gwich’in Elders to Future Generations
- Lea Münch: How Uncle Alphonse’s Survival Became a Familiy Secret. Intergenerational Memories of Relatives of Patients in Nazi Psychiatry
- Naomi Frost: Oral Histories of the Dead: Life Stories, Archaeology and the Arts as Methods for Discovering and Representing Montreal’s Back River Cemetery
- Romy Shoam: Oral Histories of the Dead: Life Stories, Archaeology and the Arts as Methods for Discovering and Representing Montreal’s Back River Cemetery
- Sonia Halpern-Bazar: Oral Histories of the Dead: Life Stories, Archaeology and the Arts as Methods for Discovering and Representing Montreal’s Back River Cemetery
- Anna Sheftel: Oral Histories of the Dead: Life Stories, Archaeology and the Arts as Methods for Discovering and Representing Montreal’s Back River Cemetery
- Emina Zoletic: Narrative Biographical Interviews and Knowledge Production in the Context of Intergenerational Transmission of War Memories
New Perspectives and Challenges of Environmental Oral History
Chair: Andrea Casa
- Sofiya Kamalova: Narrativas Plurales Sobre El Caso Ardystil: Una Intoxicación Laboral en Fábricas de Aerografía Textil en España en los Años 90.
- Jorge Ramón Ros: La ruptura metabólica y la transformación de la “agricultura familiar” en los espacios periurbanos: l’Horta de València
- Andréa Casa Nova Maia: Memoria y Paisaje Urbano Entre resiliencia, Reparación y Adaptación: Derechos Humanos y Nuevas Configuraciones de la Bahía de Guanabara Frente a la (Des)Industrialización Tóxica
Audiovisual Presentations VII
Chair: Almut Leh
- Celso Castro: (Re)Encounters Akupӯnh Awjanã
War and Veterans
Chair: Miao Tian
- Michał Studniarek: Action “Iskra-Dog” as a Case of Emergency Documenting in Occupied Poland, 1944-1945
- Agnieszka Szurek: How Amateur Historians Use Rhetorical Strategies to Preserve Marginalized Voices from WWII and Beyond
- Tomoki Takeda: Describing the History of the Asia-Pacific War and The Power of Oral History
- Daphne Van Noordt: Showcasing Stories: Exploring Presentation of Dutch Veterans’ Oral Histories
Ethics and Oral History
Chair: Outi Fingerroos
- Anne Heimo: Rethinking Ethics: The Past, Present and Future of a Sámi Folklore and Oral History Collection
- Heli Syrjälä: Rethinking Ethics: The Past, Present and Future of a Sámi Folklore and Oral History Collection
- Annika Olsson: Being a Good Scholar or a Good Person? Shared/Sharing Authority and the Practice of Taking Scholarship for Granted
- Monika Vrzgulova: Healing Conversation? The Impact of In-Depth Repeated Oral History Interviews on Interviewees, their Descendants, and Society
- Radmila Svarickova Slabakova: Diary of Three War Years: Ethics and Interviews with Ukrainian War Refugees
Historical Connoisseurs. Dialogues on Crafting the Past and Heritage
Chair: Marta Kurkowska-Budzan
- Sonia Knapczyk-Tomalka: Emotional Landscapes: The Complexities of Interviewing Regionalists
- Petr Wohlmuth: The Challenges and Dangers of Oral History Research among German Second World War Military Re-enactors
- Grace Simpson: From Pit to Podium: Dialogues of Industrial Heritage
- Anu Printsmann: From Pit to Podium: Dialogues of Industrial Heritage
- Marta Kurkowska-Budzan: From Pit to Podium: Dialogues of Industrial Heritage
- Keyi Yin: Voices of Modernity: Curatorial and Collector Perspectives in Chinese Museums
Oral History and Gender Subjectivities
Chair: Pilar Domínguez
- Miren Llona: Subjetividades en Tensión: la Modista, la Chica Moderna, y los Límites del Orden de Género de Entreguerras
- Ana Sofia Ferreira: Mujeres Rurales en la Revolución Prtuguesa: la Subjetividad de los Roles de Género
- Mónica Moreno-Seco: Paradojas de Una Militancia Transnacional: Antifranquismo, Subjetividades y Género
Oral History on Trial: Truth Recovery and Public Inquiries
Chair: Rob Perks
- Leslie McCartney: Remembering the Berger Inquiry
- Charlie Morgan: Archives as Evidence: the Uses, or Not, of Archived Oral Histories in UK Public Inquiries
- Sean O’Connell: A Tale of Two Testimony Collection Methods: Investigating Mother and Baby Institutions and Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
Environment
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
- Tomáš W. Pavlíček: Mountains and Safety in Mind. Re-Thinking the Sources of Environmental History
- Giorgia Pagliuca: The Rhetoric of Voicelessness in Animal Advocacy: Oral History as a Methodology in Critical Animal Studies
- Maricruz Romero-Ugalde: From Glory to Oblivion: the Fight to Preserve Our Home
Audiovisual Presentations VIII
Chair: Almut Leh
Women in Oral History 2
Chair: Lavinia Snejana
- Anna Cole: Lessons from the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)Sector: The ‘How’ of Care in Oral History
- Kim Hosier: Lessons from the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)Sector: The ‘How’ of Care in Oral History
- Debora Nascimento: Energetically United and Enveloped by Water: Building Sustainable Composites: Mulheres Using Barnacles and Components from Aviation Graveyards for Energy Storage
- Naomi Chiba: Oral History as a Tool for Understanding Women’s lives in Ishinomaki after the Great East Japan Earthquake
- Subhasree Ghosh: The Unexplored Psyche of Bengali Migrant Women: Voices from Post-1947 Historiography
Oral Archives: Which Voices Should Be Preserved for Future Generations?
Chair: Marek Szajda
- Giulia Zitelli Conti: Reusing Interviews on Anti-Fascist Resistance
- Alessandro Casellato: Reusing Interviews on Anti-Fascist Resistance
- Cecilia Furioso Cenci: Reusing Interviews on Anti-Fascist Resistance
- Urška Lampe: Voices of Resistance and the Assumption of Power in Slovenia after the Second World War
- Armelle Girinon: Recognition of Women’s Experience of War in Nuto Revelli’s Work
- Ninon Chevrier: Recognition of Women’s Experience of War in Nuto Revelli’s Work
- Bettina Favero: Oral Archives of Migrations in Argentina: the Case of the “Archivo de la Palabra y la Imagen” (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
Ethical Oral History
Chair: Nompilo Ndlovu
- Angela Zusman: Ethics and Oral History: Harnessing the Power of Oral History to Document, Heal and Empower
- Juan Ricardo Torres Castañeda: How to Find Knowledge in a Well of Words
- Janine Schemmer: Re-thinking Oral History Analysis: the Affective Presence of Voice
- Marie Barešová: Is a Dessert Served or do I Pose as One? Narrator as an Improper Suitor