Te Kete Kōrero-a-Waha o Te Motu
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27-29 November, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato NOHANZ Biennial Conference 2018
This year the theme of our conference focuses on the sweet sound of the voice, the singers of tales (te waha kairongorongo), storytellers, and the resonance of the voice through time and space. How is oral history transient through time and space? How do the voices of our participants travel through, or resonate in, time and space as a vehicle for memory? What significance do we find in the spaces we use to access, listen to, co-create, and present voices that give meaning and memory to the past? How is the notion of “time” apparent in the transmission of memory across generations of voices?
The call for papers closed 10 August 2018 Call for Papers
‘E WAHA KAIRONGORONGO E’: THE VOICE IN TIME AND SPACE
NATIONAL ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
27-29 NOVEMBER 2018
TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAIKATO/ Waikato University
KIRIKIRIROA/HAMILTON
Registrations now open: Apply here ..
ACCOMMODATION
- University student hostel https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/O6ECMT/
- Other accommodation https://www.hamiltonwaikato.com/accommodation/
Funding support Jack Ilott Fund https://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/scholarships-and-awards/jack-ilott-fund)
These workshops are now fully booked, but you can put your name on a waiting list by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz
Read the Flyer
Read about ‘Abstracting Oral History‘ 13-14 October 2018
125 years of Suffrage and Beyond
Victoria University of Wellington, 21-23rd September 2018 ..more..
Proposals are due 30 June 2018 ..more..
Tim Jones reflects on his six months recently spent as VSA volunteer helping to set up an oral history collection for the Haus Stori, the public library in Arawa, Bougainville.
Watch the talk on Facebook
Recipients: http://www.mch.govt.nz/funding-nz-culture/ministry-grants-awards/new-zealand-oral-history-awards
..more..
Taina was named as a Kiwibank Local Hero 2017 ..more..
Alexander Turnbull Library Outreach Services offer workshops for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects.
Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada ..more..
Meeting of the American Historical Association. The panel is tentatively titled “Loyalty and Competing Narratives in Oral History,” ..more..
Edited by Alison Laurie and Rachel Selby, the book comprises a selection of papers previously published in Oral history in New Zealand between 1989 and 2003. It includes articles by Monty Soutar, Te Ahukaramu C. Royal, Parekawhia McLean, Mere Whaanga, Hirini Moko Mead, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Cushla Parekowhai, Mita Carter, Joe Pere, Danny Keenan, Mervyn McLean, Rachael Selby, Alison Laurie, Heeni Colllins, Verna Tuteo et al., Angela Ballara and Pip Desmond.
Copies are available for $25, to secure your copy please email iinfonohanz@oralhistory.org.nz or phone Taina McGregor: DDI 04 462 3976 Taina.McGregor@dia.govt.nz
For expressions of interest in possible courses, please contact… atloutreach@dia.govt.nz
The Oral History Society (UK) has issued a statement on the Boston College Belfast Project: more…
The USA Oral History Association has issued a statement: here…
The Oral History Network of Ireland statement:
An online discussion here
Comments, complaints, criticisms, and commendations regarding what you find here are welcome.
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Hi – After doing both the interviewing for oral history and abstracting for oral history courses, I signed up as a member of NOHANZ. However, I have never received a letter of notification of anything else from the organisation, including a renewal. I see the annual conference is close to where I live in Rotorua, so I would have been interested in attending. Can you please assist, urgently? Thanks in advance
Hi Michael
It’s been great to welcome you as a NOHANZ member this week. We are all looking forward to a stimulating conference in November in the Waikato.
Kia ora,
Just wondering if anyone can show me or send me the link to Digital Copy of Abstracting Template.
Nga mihi,
Elisapeci
Apologies for bothering you. I am a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. The Turnbull Library has agreed to appraise some oral histories I will be conducting for archiving and gave me your organization’s “Recording Agreement.” In the explanatory notes, it says that if we would like to add a logo or project name to the header, we should contact you. If I would like to add my project title and the Vic logo to the header of the form would that be acceptable and how exactly should I go about doing it (i.e., should I alter the form myself in Adobe or should I handle the matter in some other way)? Thanks so much for your time and patience.
Greetings from Melbourne where I, a Kiwi, am participating in a Historians & Archivists Conference run by my Order. the Srs of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. We have just had excellent input abt Oral History and I am delighted to now find yr website & discover we have a rich forum/ network/resource in ANZ.
I write to enquire if there is a forum within Oral History pertaining to Religious Orders in ANZ?
Meg Hills rsj
Hello, Meg
I am Congregation Archivist for the Sisters of Mercy here in Aotearoa. As far a s I know there is no forum re oral history in Religious Groups although I do know some groups actually collect recordings of their members, as I do.
Hi Neil,
Taina Tangaere McGregor, who worked at the Alexander Turnbull Library (and still is), was on the NOHANZ Executive at the time, and who is a native speaker, says ‘o te motu’ came naturally to her. It means ‘of this place’ (ie NZ) and was the same but a more creative way of saying Aotearoa. It was discussed with the Maori Language Commission. Another Maori colleague has agreed that not all use Aotearoa.
Lynette
Hi Neil
I remember when the NOHANZ committee was discussing a Maori name for the organisation in the 1990s, and we consulted with ?? (I’ve forgotten her name, alas) who was then based at the National Library and who was a respected native speaker of te reo and translator. Her advice was that ‘o te motu’ – of the islands – was a better phrase to use than ‘Aotearoa’, which not all iwi and hapu use to talk about New Zealand.
Megan Hutching
Hello
Could you tell me if there are any course’s available in the upper North Island.
I am not able to travel to Wellington or Christchurch.
I live in Tauranga and on a pension. Oral History’s has been a passion of mine for many years and I have done them how I thought how they would be done. I would appreciate being able to do them more professionally.
Kind regards
Lorraine Vink
Hi Lorraine –
Auckland Libraries will be providing an Oral History for beginners workshop as part of the Auckland Heritage Festival. This will be at the Central City Library on Lorne Street in the City.
Details of the program can be found here – still waiting on release – http://www.heritagefestival.co.nz
The workshop will be on Friday 7 October. You can email me with your expression of interest. Sue.Berman@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Hello. Do you know of any ways of studying oral history as a distance or online course? I live in the South Island so attending courses or lectures in Wellington or Auckland is difficult with a teenage family.
Thank you for your assistance.
Leigh Petrie
Leigh,
Have you seen the course offered in Christchurch?
http://natlib.govt.nz/events/essentials-of-oral-history-day-one-christchurch-october-15-2016
http://natlib.govt.nz/events/essentials-of-oral-history-day-two-christchurch-november-12-2016
Kind regards
Lynette
Hi,
Neil Curgenven, secretary NZ History Federation, we have just completed our AGM at which it was proposed to add the Maori interpretation “Te Kotahitanga o nga Hitori o Aotearoa” – over a and I missing.
Discussion over Aotearoa eventuated, I see you do not have it
Could you please help my research by advising how you proceeded in getting yours
Regards