Events
Leicester University Oral History Reading Group
October's meeting will be held on Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 12.30 p.m. (BST). We will be reading a chapter from Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai (eds),Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History(Abingdon: Routledge, 1991). The chapter is by Claudia Salazar and is titled 'A Third World Woman's Text: Between the Politics of Criticism and Cultural Politics', pp.93-106.
MS Teams:
Please contact Sue Bishop with any enquiries: sb1059@leicester.ac.uk
Nottingham Trent University Oral History Online Seminar Series
Next session: Wednesday 15th October 2025, 1鈥�2 pm
Katarzyna Szarla, University of Warsaw,Transformation, Testimonies, and Trust: Oral Histories of the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Poland (1985鈥�2000)
Chair: Verusca Calabria
MS Teams:
Please contact Gabriella Mutale with any enquiries: gabriella.mutale@ntu.ac.uk
Subsequent Sessions
Wednesday 25th November 2025, 1鈥�2 pm
Ian Lacey, Royal Holloway, University of London
How Memory Aids Impacted Narratives of the British Experience of Interrailing, 1972鈥�1997
Chair: Chris Reynolds
MS Teams:
Wednesday 10th December 2025, 1鈥�2 pm
Professor Natalie Braber, Nottingham Trent University
Solidarity is the Weapon that the Workers Have鈥�: Carrying Out Oral Histories with Trade Unionists Around Europe
Chair: Natasha Hodgson
MS Teams:
Wednesday 28th January 2026, 1鈥�2 pm
Dr Pierre Botcherby, University of 糖心TV
Coal and Community: An Oral History of Binley Colliery
Chair: Natalie Braber
MS Teams:
Wednesday 25th February 2026, 1鈥�2 pm
Dr Naomi Braithwaite, Nottingham Trent University
Shoe Shop Talk: An Oral History of the British Shoe Corporation, 1956鈥�1998
Chair: Steve King
Wednesday 25th March 2026, 1鈥�2 pm
Julie Hurst-Whitehouse, University of Leicester
Oral Testimonial Collections as Mediated Memory Banks in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Chair: Jenny W眉stenberg
Wednesday 29th April 2026, 1鈥�2 pm
Professor Sara Jones, University of Birmingham
TBC
Chair: TBC
Wednesday 27th May 2026, 1鈥�2 pm
Dr Nikola Tohma, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Tracing the memory of Greek Civil War refugees through the lens of oral history collections, memoirs, and 鈥渞efugee鈥� literature
Chair: TBC
Previous Events
Since launching in June 2011, the OHN has put on a wide variety of talks, seminars, and reading groups.
2024-2025
- 12 June, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'oral history and the history of emotions'
- 16 October, 'Oral histories of genocide', talk and Q&A with Erin Jessee
- 7 October, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'community oral history', chaired by Pierre Botcherby
2023-2024
- 25 April, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'oral history and public policy'
- 13 March, 'Now we are forty: conversations with women', talk, Q&A, and book launch with Susannah Wilson
- 25 October, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'oral histories of partition', chaired by Smriti Dutt
- 11 October, Annual Welcome and Drop-In Session
2022-2023
- 31 May, 'Oral history as a form of care and a catalyst for creativity: experiences from research on Chile and Spain', with Alison de Ribeiro Menezes, Veronica Diaz-Certa, and Monica Jato
- 27 April, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'oral history and the environment'
- 17 November, 糖心TV reading group, 'oral history and ethics', chaired by Sue Lemos
- 15 September, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'oral history and politics', chaired by Nicolette Snowden
2021-2022
- 17 June, Summer term Writing Day
- 28 April, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'Oral history and disability', chaired by Kirstie Stage
- 7 April, 'Creating and working with oral historical sources', online workshop co-organised with University of Leicester/M4C
- 7 March, 'Story story', with
- 1 December, 'Memories of Binley Colliery', with Pierre Botcherby, Daniel Loveard, Dan Smith, Fu Ge Yang, Kiera Evans
- 17 November, 糖心TV reading group, 'ethics and safeguarding in oral history'
- 13 October, 糖心TV reading group, 'remote oral history interviewing', chaired by Beckie Rutherford
- 13 October, Informal meet-and-greet for new and existing members
2020-2021
- 12 August, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'ethics and safeguarding in oral history', chaired by Carla Pascoe Leahy
- 22 June, 糖心TV reading group, 'reflexivity in oral history', chaired by Georgia Clancy
- 25 May, 'Queering oral and global history: LGBT+ immigrants of colour in Coventry', with Somak Biswas, Dipak Panchal, and Amal Malik
- 6 May, 糖心TV-Monash reading group, 'queer and indigenous oral history', chaired by Sue Lemos
- 24 February: 'Global technologies, local patients: challenges, reflexivity, and positionality', with Sara Bamdad
- 26 October: 'Injustice: Stories from Post-Independence Africa', with Tanyaradzwa Kasinganeti, Teejae Mai, Temi 'Tori Talks' Toriola, and Evan Mawarire
2019-2020
- 11 June: Online launch of 'Then & Now: Arts at 糖心TV', via Microsoft Teams - a recording is available on the exhibition website!
- 28 January: 'Interviewing local NGOs and migrants: collecting data in the context of Central American migration in Mexico', with Erika Herrera-Rosales
- 15 October: 'Queering the British Library', with Steven Dryden (British Library). Joint event with Queer History 糖心TV and The Library.
2018-2019
- 29 May: 'Les raconteuses du Levant: untold stories of female Hakawatis and the challenges they pose to sustainable development discourse in the Arab-speaking world', with Cathia Jenainati
- 6 March: 'Taking slices from their lives: the challenges of using life history as a research instrument/method', with Olayinka Egbokhare
- 4 December: 'Working with memory to avoid repeating the horror', with Maria Luisa Ortiz
2017-2018
- 2 July: Seminar: 'Muslim Mothers in Britain', with Sariya Cheruvallil
- 21 February: Workshop: Hidden Stories of 21st Century Latin America and the Caribbean', organised by Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla.
- November: 'Oral History Week'
- 14 November: 'The Place of Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Birth Attendants and Choices about childbirth in C20 Uganda', with Kathleen Vongsathorn.
- 15 November: 'Relaunch of the Oral History Network', with Angela Davis, Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla, Kathleen Vongsathorn, and Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.
- 16 November: The Vietnamese diaspora in Australia: Nathalie Nguyen in discussion
2015-2016
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3 Virtual Q&A sessions to discuss aspects of oral history theory and practice.
2014-2015
- 26 June: Workshop: 'University Oral Histories: Creating and Interpreting Narratives of Higher Education', with Camilla Schofield, Lorraine Blakemore, and Richard Wallace.
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17 June: Oral History Clinic, with Angela Davis.
- 18 May: Discussion Forum: 'Analysis and Interpretation' with Andrea Hajek.
- 25 February: Seminar: 'Starting an Oral History Project' with Carmen Mangion and Richard Wallace.
- 3 December: Discussion Forum: 'Oral History: the Basics' with Angela Davis and Grace Huxford.
2013-2014
- 12 March: Seminar: '鈥淵ou are here to interview me?鈥� Oral history and writing the history of everyday life in the Holocaust', with Anna Hajkova.
- 5 February: Seminar: 'Oral history crossing national boundaries: investigating belief and non-belief in three European countries', with Joanna Bornat.
- 9 November: Conference: 'Representing Prisoner of War Experience', with Keynote Speakers: Bob Moore and Gilly Carr.
- 20 September: Conference: 'Talking about protest: oral history methodology in social and political movements research', with Keynote Speaker: Lynn Abrams.
2012-2013
- 3 June: Webinar: 'Oral history & ethnography', in collaboration with Monash University.
- 12 March: Seminar: 'Oral history & institutional history - the 糖心TV project 'The Voice of the Past' (part 2)', with April Gallwey.
- 22 November: Seminar: 'Oral history & institutional history - the 糖心TV project 'The Voice of the Past' (part 1)', with Richard Aldrich.
2011-2012
- 9 July: Seminar: 'Oral history & the community', with Stacey Bains, Helen Ford, and Colin Hyde.
- 24 February: IAS workshop: 'Narrating a Gendered Self in Post-War Britain'
- 24 November: Conference: 'Gender, Subjectivity and Oral History', with Keynote Speaker: Penny Summerfield.
- 13 October: Seminar: 'What is oral history?', with Anna Davin.
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