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National Oral History Association of New Zealand (NOHANZ)

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Useful Information

Documents

How To

Information About Equipment

Useful Information

Research sources

2-7 February 2019 WORKSHOP: Oral History and Project Design

CPF: AHA 2020 — Historians and Transitional Justice

8 February 2019 Sonic South 2019: Call for Submissions

Oral History Recording Agreement Version 2, September 2014 (replaces Version 1a).
Recording Agreement pdf

Note: If you wish to add an organisation name or logo to the Recording Agreement please email resourcesnohanz@oralhistory.org.nz for an editable version and put NOHANZ Recording Agreement in the subject line. We recommend completing the Recording Agreement form by hand. For more guidance please refer to the Explanatory Notes below.

Oral History Recording Agreement Explanatory Notes for Interviewers, Version 2, September 2014 (replaces Version 1b, July 2013)
Explanatory Notes pdf
Feedback on the Recording Agreement, or the accompanying Explanatory Notes for Interviewers, or any NOHANZ documents would be greatly appreciated. Please email resourcesnohanz@oralhistory.org.nz and put NOHANZ Recording Agreement in the subject line. The December 2012 and December 2014 issues of the NOHANZ Newsletter have more information about this

Frequently Asked Questions About Completing the Recording Agreement Form (new September 2014)
FrequentQuestions pdf

Selecting a Repository
Select a Repository pdf

Principles and Best Practices – Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral History (Oral History Association) – these guidelines provide valuable information for interviewers and commissioners on the conduct and archiving of interviews, and their evaluation.
oralhistory.org/…/principles-and-practices

Alexander Turnbull Library’s guidelines for managing your digital oral history content. Includes helpful information on scanning photographs etc for deposit in an archive. Please contact the Oral History Adviser

Recording Oral Histories: Resources and advice to help you record an oral history, Alexander Turnbull Library
http://natlib.govt.nz/researchers/oral-history-advice?search%5Bpath%5D=items&search%5Btext%5D=oral+history+advice

Preparation – A Guide to Recording Oral History, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/hands/a-guide-to-recording-oral-history

Possible questions for a life history interview, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/pdfs/Life-history-questions.pdf

Points to consider before beginning an oral history project
Points to Consider pdf

Guide to commissioning oral history projects (produced by the Oral History Association of Australia)
oralhistorynsw.org.au/a-guide-to-commissioning-oral-history-projects.html

Determining fees for Oral History – see under ‘Guidelines’ on the Oral History Association of Australia’s website
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a28b78d692ebe8cccef0034/t/5a7d18b4c83025fff3cf836f/1518147769921/Fees-guidelines.pdf

Journal: Oral History in New Zealand – Guide for Contributors
Guide for Contributors pdf

Abstracting oral history: Alexander Turnbull Library advice on Abstracting Oral History Interviews as an online pdf
As a download

Digitising heritage oral history collections: The booklet Digitising heritage oral history collections is available on request from the National Preservation Office

Creating digital content – Digital NZ A -Tihi Aotearoa Make it Digital – described as a one stop shop for questions about creating digital content in New Zealand. A place to get advice, share ideas and contribute.
http://makeit.digitalnz.org/ Including advice on transferring analogue tape to digital here

The Oral Historian’s Digital Toolbox a website that contains a listing of existing and emergent digital tools.

Resources for Digital Storytelling
http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/resources.php

Guide to Digital Recording, Alexander Turnbull Library
Please contact the Oral History Adviser

Equipment – a guide to recording oral history, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/hands/equipment-a-guide-to-recording-oral-history

How to choose oral history recording equipment – a list of things to consider see the Members’ Contributions page

Hints on using lapel mics – see the Members’ Contributions page

You tube channel set up by the Louis B Nunn Centre for Oral History, recommended by Andy Kolovos of the Vermont Folklife Centre (see below). Videos about common digital audio recorders, a digital audio calculator and a tutorial on achieving optimal recording levels.
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=11&llib_id=13&ltab_id=1369

Using optical disks – CDs/DVDs – National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/53.html

“Risks Associated with the Use of Recordable CDs and DVDs as Reliable Storage Media in Archival Collections : Strategies and Alternatives” by Kevin Bradley
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147782E.pdf

Oral history from scratch – Wellington

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

Research sources

For digital local history records in the Auckland area visit Local History Online where you will find digital images and indexes to community newspapers, archives and oral histories relating to West Auckland, Rodney and the North Shore

National Oral History Association of New Zealand
Te Kete Kōrero-a-Waha o Te Motu
P.O. Box 3819, WELLINGTON

Oral History Events

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2-7 February 2019 WORKSHOP: Oral History and Project Design
All day
2019-02-02-2019-02-07
http://www.oralhistory.org.nz/index.php/event/2-7-february-2019-workshop-oral-history-and-project-design/
Saturday, February 2, 2019 9:30 AM
Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:00 PM
Project Design is a dynamic phase of oral history practice, giving oral historians a chance to discipline their thinking, address ethical challenges, identify sites for potential collaboration, assess their resources, define “success,” and brainstorm potential future uses beyond the archive.
Project Design, which we can think of as our projects’ “superego,” stands in contrast to the wild and woolly nature of narrative, itself–presenting with coherence, rules and potential problems. Working on our Project Designs at the front end can be enlivening, inspiring and revelatory when developed in chorus with peers and collaborators, as “problems” become our guides, and part of our projects’ ultimate resolution.
This workshop will encompass a discussion of outreach methods, budget, training/support, equipment, ethical problems, preservation plan, project focus, motives, sites for collaboration. and nontraditional interview design such as the “oral history chain letter” and the storycircle.
Participants will have the option of signing up for a 30-minute project consultation.
We’ll be joined by guest instructors Alex Kelly (New York Public Library) and Liza Zapol (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).
This workshop, which begins with a review oral history theory, methods and practice, is designed for the newcomer and more experienced oral historian, well-suited for those mid-project or those dreaming of a project, ahead. No prior oral history training is assumed.
Instructors: Suzanne Snider with Alex Kelly and Liza Zapol
Location: Solaris, Hudson, New York
Tuition: $725
Tuition includes an OHSS e-reader, a project consult, workbook, tote bag and two group meals.

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CPF: AHA 2020 — Historians and Transitional Justice
All day
2019-02-03
http://www.oralhistory.org.nz/index.php/event/cpf-aha-2020-historians-and-transitional-justice/
CPF: AHA 2020 — Historians and Transitional Justice
by Catalina Munoz
Dear all,
I am seeking to put together a panel for AHA 2020 titled “Historians Engaging with Processes of Transitional Justice.” Here is the abstract:
How can the academic knowledge and skills of trained historians help us tackle the most pressing challenges our societies face in the present? How can rigorous knowledge about the past and civic engagement work together to promote social justice and human rights? This panel brings together historians who apply their skills and knowledge to promote social change in the present. In particular, it discusses the contributions that the historical discipline can make to processes of transitional justice in different parts of the globe. The way we tackle the transition from conflict to peace has changed over time, and notions of justice have broadened. From an initial approach that focused on rectifying human rights violations through criminal prosecution, our understanding of transitional justice has broadened over the years to include truth commissions, reparation, and memorialization. Oral historians have played a very important role in pushing forward the right to truth of victims of armed conflict, for example. However, the relevance of history does not stop there. Some scholars argue that for there to be justice it is imperative to address the root causes, that is, the structural socioeconomic and gendered inequalities that underlie war. As such, transitional justice is not exclusively a legal or political matter, and history becomes deeply relevant to delve into its social and local dimensions. I am looking for papers that present experiences of historians actively engaging in peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict societies that critically reflect on the possibilities and challenges of this kind of work.
My own paper will focus on my experience leading a collaborative and multidisciplinary project in Colombia called “Historias para lo que viene”. This project is a collaboration of historians, designers, media-makers, and popular communicators in local radio stations that creates short radio pieces and podcasts that seek to bring together memory and history by integrating testimonies of reconciliation in the context of the Colombian armed conflict with local historical context about the local root causes of war. The media we produce seeks to enrich public debate about the causes of the Colombian conflict and, in particular, to move the debate beyond victims and perpetrators to generate reflections on the ways in which society as a whole has a role to play in peacebuilding.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact me at c.munoz2017@uniandes.edu.co no later than Feb. 3.
Catalina Muñoz
Associate Professor
History Department
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
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8 February 2019 Sonic South 2019: Call for Submissions
All day
2019-02-08
http://www.oralhistory.org.nz/index.php/event/8-february-2019-sonic-south-2019-call-for-submissions/
The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP), housed at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, invites artists, composers, audio/radio producers, writers, and community members to use our interviews to create new and thought-provoking short-form audio documentaries, sound art, sonic experiments, and aural landscapes.
Producers are encouraged to think creatively about format, structure, and style. Since 1973, the SOHP has recorded interviews with southerners from mill workers to civil rights leaders to future presidents, which are available digitally through the Southern Historical Collection at Wilson Library.
For our 2019 Sonic South audio competition, In Sickness & In Health, we’re highlighting SOHP’s major research project, Stories to Save Lives. Producers will choose from interviews with Southerners about health, illness, and medical care in their own lives, in their families and in their communities. Your creativity can help us illuminate the power of these stories.
The top five finalists will have their work shared at a live listening room in April 2019 at the CURRENT Theater in Chapel Hill, NC. Two prizes will be awarded: the Sonic South prize, and the Audience Choice award.
There are three rules for this competition.
Final work must:
Be no longer than three minutes in length
Incorporate themes of health, illness, or medical care in the American South
Use at least two different voices from this curated collection of 15 SOHP interviews.
Entries are due on Friday, February 8, 2019 by midnight EST.
For more information about the competition, the rules, and how to submit, please visit the Sonic South website.