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The Oral History Centre Classroom and Kitchen: Where Oral History meets Food History
News: The Oral History Centre Classroom (2B23, Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg) was transformed into a functioning kitchen over this summer, thanks to an Experiential Learning Fund grant. For the 2017-2018 academic year, “Advanced Studies in Canadian Social...
The OHC Joins the Sustainable Heritage Network
News: The University of Winnipeg Oral History Centre is now part of the Sustainable Heritage Network, a network of individuals, communities, and institutions who work together to provide each other with digital tools and preservation assistance. Based out of...
The CBHA at the OHC
News: Earlier this fall, members of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Business History Association (CBHA) met at the Oral History Centre (OHC) at the University of Winnipeg (UW). The OHC is an affiliate of the CBHA; Janis Thiessen, Associate Director of the...
Centre for Oral History and Tradition, Lethbridge
News: The Oral History Centre was pleased to learn more about the Centre for Oral History and Tradition at University of Lethbridge while attending the Oral History Association's Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA. Under the Directorship of Dr. Heidi MacDonald,...
Call for Papers: Oral History Society 2017 UK Annual Conference
News: The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in conjunction with Newman University and Leeds Trinity University Friday, 14th and Saturday, 15th July, 2017 at Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD In recent years, belief and non belief have...
CBHA/ACHA and the OHC Announce Their Mutual Affiliation
News: The Oral History Centre is pleased to announce the mutual affiliation of the OHC and the The Canadian Business History Association - l'association canadienne pour l'histoire. The Canadian Business History Association - l'association canadienne pour l'histoire...
The Canadian Business History Association and the OHC
News: The Canadian Business History Association (CBHA/ACHA) held its first Annual General Meeting in Toronto on 3 May 2016. Elected to its first Board of Directors were two long-time supporters of the Oral History Centre in Winnipeg: Joe Martin and Janis Thiessen....
Research on the Indigenous History of Tuberculosis Treatment in Manitoba
News: What do Indigenous people recall of medical treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in Manitoba? We are interviewing First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who were patients and employees of TB hospitals in Manitoba between 1930 and 1970 as part of a larger project...
Canadians Do Oral History?
Blog: Oral historians in the English-speaking world have been rewarded with a number of excellent compendiums over the past few decades, including an anthology, a reader, and two handbooks. Yet, to the international readership of these introductory essay collections,...
Salvadoran Voices of Manitoba Crowdfunding Campaign
News: The Oral History Centre is happy to announce that we have partnered with the University of Winnipeg Foundation to start a crowdfunding campaign for the Salvadoran Voices of Manitoba oral history project. We are trying to raise $13,000.00 for the first phase of...
Call for Papers: Oral History and Life Stories Network of the European Social Science History Conference, Valencia 2016
News: Broadly, we want to encourage papers that explore the relationship between oral histories and the construction and analysis of life stories, both in terms of processes and outcomes. This, for example, might include the conceptual use and reuse of both oral...
Call for Papers: Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: Current Research Areas, Challenges and Specificity
News: The Genealogies of Memory Project facilitates academic exchange between Central and East European scholars of individual and collective memory, and intend to promote this region’s study of memory among the broader international academic community. A call for...