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Call for Proposals: Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities
News: The Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) is seeking proposals from a contractor to undertake an analysis of oral history interviews conducted by Carlos Sosa with nine MLPD leaders. Working from transcripts of the oral history interviews, which...
First Nations Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba: Fall Newsletter
News: The Fall Issue (#3) of the First Nations Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba is a newsletter that reports research related to the history of tuberculosis (TB) in Manitoba, and it is part of the “Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba 1930-1970”...
Using Oral History to Research Intergenerational Memories of Japanese Canadians’ Wartime Dispossession
News: During the Second World War the Canadian government uprooted over 21,000 Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia and began the forced sale of Japanese Canadian property. UWinnipeg’s Oral History Centre has teamed up with twelve other...
Special issue: Human Rights and Oral History: Stories of Survival, Healing, Redemption, and Accountability.
News: The Oral History Forum d'histoire orale is proud to announce the launch of its new special issue, "Human Rights and Oral History: Stories of survival, healing, redemption, and accountability," guest edited by Michael Kilburn. The following articles and reviews...
First Nations Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba: Newsletter and Oral History Project
News: The Summer Issue (#2) of the First Nations Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitobais a newsletter that reports research related to the history of tuberculosis (TB) in Manitoba, and it is part of the “Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba 1930-1970”...
Nindibaajimomin Official Website
News: The Oral History Centre is pleased to promote the official Nindibaajimomin website. The website is the fruition of a long running project supported by the Oral History Centre and funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation that brings forth the voices of inter...
Confessing Animals: Toward a Longue Durée History of the Oral History Interview
News: “Confessing Animals”: Toward a Longue Durée History of the Oral History Interview, published by Alexander Freund in the Oral History Review is now available as a full article on the Oral History Review's website. You can also find it as a PDF download on...
The Practitioners Speak: Histories of Oral Historians
News: The Oral History Centre presents a series of three interviews conducted with leading oral historians Ronald Grele, Alessandro Portelli, and Linda Shopes, renowned for their contributions to the field of oral history. Rather than a professional and polished...
Scott Price Participates in Groundswell PSN Chat
News: Groundswell is an international network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community organizers and documentary artists who are using oral history and narrative in creative, effective, and ethical ways to support movement building and social...
Oral History Forum Special Issue: Confronting Mass Atrocities
News: The Oral History Forum d'histoire orale is proud to announce the launch of its new special issue, "Confronting Mass Atrocities," guest edited by Erin Jessee University of British Columbia) and Annie Pohlman (University of Queensland). So far, the following...
“Nindibaajimomin” Intergenerational Digital Storytelling on the Legacy of Residential Schools
News: From August 12-16, 2013 the Oral History Centre, in collaboration with the Department of Indigenous Studies, hosted the Summer Institute Nindibaajimomin - Digital Storytelling on the Inter-generational Experiences of Residential Schools. Funded through the...
Oral History Forum Special Issue: Working Lives: Special Issue on Oral History and Working-Class History
News: The Oral History Centre presents the latest Special Issue from the "Oral History Forum D'Histoire Orale" titled Special Issue: Working Lives: Special Issue on Oral History and Working-Class History. This Special Issue contains the following Articles; Oral...