COHS 2014 - The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society

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The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society
Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground
The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society
For more than thirty years the Oral History Society has played a leading role in the development of oral history, both in Britain and internationally. It is dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history, and to making this accessible to everyone.
This year's conference will showcase how oral history is practised in the community and communities. We are looking for papers on any aspect of community oral history and invite proposals that are reflective, rather than a step-by-step explanation of how a project was run. We mean community in its broadest sense, so it could be a geographical community or a community of interest, for example.
We are looking for papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays and suggest the following themes as a starting point:
Collaborative working - how communities have worked with other sectors
Communities of interest - how do you define a community?
Sustainability - what happens when a project ends?
Audience - who is your project for?
International projects - we actively seek proposals from speakers from abroad