IOHA News

Bulletin of the International Oral History Association (Published twice a year)

Volume 21:1,

January 2013

Dear reader,

After an energizing experience in Buenos Aires, we are ready to start this new phase of the newsletter. We would not want to start without first thanking the former editors, Miren Llona and Chris Paetzold for their contributions during the last couple of years.

This issue includes reports from our colleagues organizing the BA conference, as well as related reflections from M. Vanek, former president, and D. Ritchie, a regular contributor to this newsletter. We have also included texts related to the 9th South African Oral History Association Conference as well as on the 10th Meetings of Oral History and Sources in Spain and reviews for the book "The Oxford Handbook of Oral History" and the documentary "The Quartier" authored by the young historian H. Gibb Lastly, We would like to mention that we welcome with enthusiasm the news of the creation of a new association of Oral History in India. We wish them the best of lucks. We look forward to meeting you again in our next issue, with a firm decision to continue utilizing this Newsletter as a tool for the diffusion and enjoyment of oral historians across the world.

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Christina Landsman (texts in english) | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Co-editors, IOHA News

Dear readers, IOHA members and friends.

We are looking forward for your contributions and, therefore, know, discuss and spread the research that is been done in the world.

Through means of the online edition of Words and Silences we look for the largest number of readers and widen discussion about the contents of each edition of the Journal. We hope that you can continue to contribute to the Journal, where many dialogues and thoughts have been originated from different parts of the world, and also have enriched the work of those who practice oral history.

The Journal has reached VOL. 20 thanks to the effort of the editors that have been working for its consolidation of different periods. We are especially thankful to the contributors and readers that, from different places of the world, send us their reviews, works, and comments. This has favoured the expansion of the field of oral history, discussion about topics of interest that emerge among researchers, and also the development of archives and heritage that preserve oral history.

Since it was founded in 1996, IOHA has tried to find a way to achieve the objectives it was created for: becoming a forum for oral historians around the world. One of the tools to do so has been the online Journal Words and Silences, through which we have tried to get closer with all the people interested in oral history.

Sincerely

IOHA President.Ana María de la O Castellanos      

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