Other Conferences, Seminars and Workshops 

Saturday 24 July 2010  :  HISTORY, MEMORY, TRUTH

History is commonly understood as a true record.  While the notion implies certitude, it is clear that history is not indisputable.  Throwing the important but often unreliable and contestable ingredient of memory into the mix can be further confusing.
Michael McKernan, Alan Ramsay, Elizabeth Fletcher, Tony Kevin and Jacqueline Kent will tease out ways in which we have constructed history.

1.30 pm to 5 pm (registration 1 pm) Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Building, State Library of NSW.  $25 (Friends and concessions) $20 (Seniors), $35 includes light refreshments.  Prices include GST.

Bookings : Online bookings and payment: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/bookings    Telephone (02) 9273.1770  Email: bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au

Tuesday 24 August 2010  :  IN DEFENCE OF GOSSIP

Gossip is often dismissed as trivial or even malicious.  And it can be.  It can also be a rich source of casual, even unsubstantiated information that is nonetheless socially revealing.  The Mitchell Library, in its collections of personal letters and diaries, is a mine of exciting and historically important gossip.   Paul Brunton leads the way in exploring this tantalising topic.

5.30 for 6 pm to 7.30 pm  Dixon Room, Mitchell Building, State Library of NSW
$20 (Friends and concessions), $20 (Seniors), $25 includes light refreshments.  Prices include GST.

 Bookings : Online bookings and payment: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/bookings    Telephone (02) 9273.1770  Email: bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au

These are both ISAA EVENTS (NSW Chapter of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia)     All welcome.

COPYRIGHT COUNCIL TRAINING

Each year the Australian Copyright Council runs a two level training program Level 1: suitable for people with no prior knowledge of copyright and Level 2 : suitable for people who are familiar with the basic principles of copyright (eg.they have attended the Copyright Primer Training Session or have read the Council's Copyright Essentials book.  For further information and details of courses running in 2010   www.copyright.org.au

2010 Training Program in Sydney  runs from August 23 to September 1 All sessions are conducted at the NSW State Library  

Sixteenth Biennial International Oral History Association Conference,  
              
Between Past and Future:  Oral History, Memory and Meaning

July 7-11 2010 Prague, Czech Republic     

The 2010 Conference will focus on finding and making meaning of the past and human identity through oral history.  We will focus on a number of research fields where oral history can contribute to better understanding not only of our past but our lives in general.  Also, for the first time our conference will take place in an ex-totalitarian country.  This enables us to analyse the specific role of oral history research in societies where other, especially official records about the past have been submitted to censorship or have been discarded.

Themes:

• Memories of violence, war and totalitarianism.  The persecuted, civil rights, trauma and forgetting.
• Memory and Politics: Experiences of political participation
• Islands of Freedom:  The role of subculture, folklore and oral traditions in society.  Alternative culture, music, dance and identity.
• Memories of Family: Motherhood, fatherhood and generational change.
• Migrations: Exile, mikgratory movements, diaspora and the search of identity.
• The World of Work:  Memories and experiences. 
• Gender and the perception of labour.
• Gender/ing memories and the making of sexual identities.  Oral Histories of gays and lesbians.
• Health and Healthcare: health centres, the elderly and disabled; health workers.
• Ecology and Disasters: Environmental issues, natural heritage and cultural change.
• Sharing/Passing on Beliefs: Religion and oral traditions.
• Organising Oral History:  Institutions, archives, museums, organisations and grassroots groups.
• Methodological, archival and technological issues, theory and method of oral history: Legal and ethical issues.
• Teaching Oral History:  Experiences in formal and informal education.
• Oral History and the Media.

See Conference website for all details  :     www:ioha2010prague.cz   

PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION

18-20 July 2010   Conference for Professional Historians  :    Islands of History

A conference for professional historians from Australia and New Zealand will be held on Norfolk Island from 18-25 July 2010.  This will be on the eve of the World Heritage Convention's decision to include Kingston and Arthus Vale on NOrfolk Island and ten other Australian convict sites on the World Heritage List.  Lectures will be presented by PHA members and local and visiting specialists.  Topics cover:  writing convict history, South Pacific maritime history, history for heritage, Polynesian migration, South Pacific histiory, Pacific missions and issues relating to the practice of public history.  The conference will include site visits, island orientation and free time to explore the diverse heritage of the island.

Conference program is available at www.phansw.org.au/documents/Norfolkdocs/Timetable.pdf
For further details contact secretary@phansw.org.au