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Australian Generations: Researching 20th Century Lives and Memories
ORAL HISTORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Thursday 30 October State Library of Victoria, 6 – 7.30pm
Life stories are everywhere in this digital age. What does it mean to do oral history in the digital age? What are the challenges and opportunities in creating, interpreting and producing digital oral history? US historian Michael Frisch is one of the most influential contributors to international developments in oral and public history: in the 1970s he led new interpretations of memory and history; in the 1980s he coined the notion of ‘shared authority’ to illuminate the oral history relationship; since the 1990s he has worked at the cutting edge of digital technologies for creating, sharing and interpreting recorded interviews. In this public lecture he will use the Australian Generations Oral History Project, a social history of twentieth century Australian lives and memories, as one example to explore the transformations of oral history in our digital age.
AUSTRALIAN GENERATIONS: RESEARCHING 20TH CENTURY LIVES AND MEMORIES
CONFERENCE Friday 31 October Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Building H1.25, 8.50am – 5pm
PROGRAM 8.50 am Registration
9.15 am Welcome and opening remarks 9.30 – 10.45 am
Session 1 Kevin Bradley & Anisa Puri: Making digital oral history Alistair Thomson: An exploration of ‘generations’ in Australian contemporary history
10.45 -‐ 11.00 am Morning tea 11.00 – 12.15 pm Session 2
Katie Holmes: Mental health in 20th and 21st century Australia Kerreen Reiger: Making families: change and continuity in 20th and 21st century Australia
12.15 – 1.00 pm Lunch
1.00 – 2.15pm Session 3 Seamus O’Hanlon: Cross-‐cultural relationships in 20th and 21st century Australia Christina Twomey: Education and social mobility in 20th and 21st century Australia
2.15 -‐ 3.15 pm Session 4 Panel discussion: Recording and Remembering:
Interviewing and Being Interviewed for Australian Generations
3.15 – 3.45 pm Afternoon tea
3.45 – 5.00 pm
Session 5 Michelle Rayner: Making radio history Respondent and closing remarks -‐ Michael Frisch
SPEAKERS
Michael Frisch is Professor of History & American Studies/ Senior Research Scholar at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is an American social and urban historian involved in oral and public history projects, often in collaboration with community history organizations, museums, and documentary filmmakers. Frisch’s publications include A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (1990) and Portraits in Steel (1993), in collaboration with documentary photographer Milton Rogovin. His work in oral history applications of new media technology has been developed through his consulting office, The Randforce Associates, LLC, in the University at Buffalo’s Technology Incubator.
Alistair Thomson is Project Leader of the Australian Generations Oral History Project, Professor of History and Head of School at Monash University. His research and teaching explores the ways in which different kinds of life story evidence can illuminate the past and its meanings in the present lives of individuals and society. Alistair writes about the theory and method of oral history and life history research, including research involving recorded and written memory, diaries and letters, and family photographs. His recent work is beginning to explore the opportunities and challenges of digital (oral) history. Kevin Bradley is currently Senior Curator of Research Collection and Unpublished Materials, Curator of Oral History and Folklore, and Director of Sound Preservation. His previous appointments include Sustainability Advisor on the Australian Partnerships for Sustainable Repositories (APSR), a DEST-‐funded partnership, Manager of the Sound Preservation and Technical Services, and Acting Director of Preservation at the NLA. He is currently President of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives (IASA) and Vice Chair of the Technical Committee. Kevin held the title of President of the Australasian Sound Recordings Association and edited numerous editions of the ASRA journal (2001-‐2007). Anisa Puri is the Project Officer of the Australian Generations Oral History Project. Anisa completed a Master of Public History at Monash in 2011. She has worked for the National Library’s Oral History and Folklore Summary program and as a consulting historian for a Melbourne-‐based heritage interpretation company. Anisa is the joint Events and Social Media Coordinator of Oral History Victoria and she served as Treasurer of the Professional Historians Association (Vic) from 2012 – 2013. She is currently working on an anthology using interviews from the Australian Generations collection. Katie Holmes is a Professor in History at La Trobe University and previously also taught in the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity program. Katie researches broadly in twentieth century Australian history, specialising in the uses and meanings of gardens and landscape, environmental history, and women’s private writings, especially in letters and diaries. She is the lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing People: Australia’s southern mallee lands, 1830-‐2012’. Katie has also actively researched in the following areas: war; sexuality; feminism; single women; and the experience of time. Kerreen Reiger is an historical and health sociologist at La Trobe University. Her published work has explored the extension of technical rationality to the household in Australia, maternity reform movements in post-‐war decades and the relevance of critical social theory to relationships in health care. Recently, her research has focused primarily on the management of childbirth; the impact of new public management on health services; inter-‐professional relationships in hospital workplaces; policies on overseas trained health workers; and public participation and citizenship claims and quality improvement strategies in health care. Seamus O’Hanlon is an Associate Professor in History at Monash University, where he teaches contemporary urban and public history. He is the author of Together Apart: Boarding House, Hostel and Flat Life in Prewar Melbourne (2002), Melbourne Remade: The Inner City since the Seventies (2010) and co-‐editor of Go! Melbourne in the Sixties (2005). His most recent book is Federation Square Melbourne: The First Ten Years (2012).
Christina Twomey is a Professor in History at Monash University. She is the author of A History of Australia (2011, co-‐authored with Mark Peel), Australia’s Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War II (2007) and Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare (2002). Christina has also published widely on the cultural history of war, with a focus on issues of imprisonment, captivity, witnessing, the photography of atrocity, gender and memory. Currently an ARC Future Fellow (2012-‐15), Christina is researching civilian internment and concentration policies at three different colonial sites in the late nineteenth century. Nicole Curby has recorded 23 interviews for the Australian Generations Oral History Project, and has presented numerous talks and papers on the project. She has conducted historical research for television documentaries and worked as a researcher with NSW Native Title Service. She is a member of the Professional Historians Association (Vic) and Oral History Victoria. Sarah Rood is one of the Directors of the consultancy, Way Back When. In her career as a professional historian she has experience in all areas of public history, specialising in oral and digital histories and exhibitions. Sarah has a particular interest in giving voice to the past. She is motivated by her firm belief that the past shapes the present and future, and enjoys working with community groups to record and document their stories. Sarah is an oral history interviewer for the National Library of Australia and has been involved in several of its oral history projects. Daniel Berk and Ebony Gulliver were interviewed for the Australian Generations Oral History Project and will be participating in the panel discussion. Michelle Rayner is the Executive Producer of Hindsight, in the Features Unit at ABC Radio National. Michelle has worked across many forms of radio broadcasting at ABC Radio National – from science through to performance and arts programs. She has also worked in the Features and Factual Dept at BBC Radio 4, and for BBC Radio Scotland. In 1999 she won the NSW Premier’s History Audio-‐Visual award for a documentary about the history of the Blue Mountains. Michelle has been involved in the production of oral history based radio programs, broadcast on Hindsight and Verbatim, for the past sixteen years.