INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
In collaboration with the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University
of Natal, Pietermaritzburg

THE POWER OF ORAL HISTORY:
Memory, Healing and Development

XIIth International Oral History Conference
Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
June 24-27, 2002

Conferences Sub-themes:
Trauma, memory and reconciliation / Preservation and dissemination of
oral archives / Oral history and digitisation / Oral history in
teaching and learning/ Gender in oral history / Ethnicity and identity
/ Land claims and oral testimonies / Religion and memory / Stories of
warfare, famine and migration / Sickness and disability in oral history

Proposals are invited from around the world for contributions to the
XIIth International Oral History Conference. The proposals may be for a
conference paper, a workshop session or a thematic panel. Only the
papers with a clear focus on oral history will be taken into
consideration.

If you are interested, please send us a single-page proposal including
an outline of your paper and the following details: name, affiliation,
postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers.

Deadline for proposals: July 1, 2001

The Conference Committee will confirm acceptance or rejection of your
proposal by September 1, 2001. The final paper of no more than 15
double-spaced pages, must reach the organisers before December 15,
2001, for publication in the Conference Proceedings.

Papers must be written in English or in Spanish. If possible abstracts
in the other language should be provided. At the conference, there will
be simultaneous translation (in English, Spanish and, on some
occasions, in Zulu and Sesotho) for the plenary sessions. Efforts will
be made to provide informal consecutive summary translation during
workshop sessions.

Send proposal to:

IOHA 2002 Organising Committee
c/o Professor Philippe Denis,
Oral History Project, School of Theology, University of Natal
PB X 01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa
Phone: (27) 33 260 50 64
Fax: (27) 33 260 58 58
E-mail: ohp@nu.ac.za.

Enquiries to:

- Africa: Tayba Sharif tayba@aucegypt.edu)
- Latin America: Verena Alberti (VERENA@fgv.br)
- Northern America: Anne Ritchie (A-RITCHIE@nga.gov)
- Asia: Nükhet Sirman (sirman@boun.edu.tr)
- Australia: Janis Wilton (jwilton@metz.une.edu.au)
- Europe: Mercedes Vilanova (vilanova@trivium.gh.ub.es)

International Oral History Association

Invitation for Membership

The International Oral History Association (IOHA) was formally
constituted in June 1996 at the IXth International Oral History
Conference in Goteborg, Sweden. The Association provides a forum for
oral historians around the world, in order to foster international
communication and cooperation and a better understanding of the nature
and value of oral history.

Benefits of membership include:

- concessionary rates for the biennial international oral history
conferences
- copies of Words and Silences, the annual, bilingual (English and
Spanish) Bulletin of the IOHA (containing oral history reports, an
index of oral history journals from around the world, special items and
commentaries on oral history issues)
- access to the IOHA home page on the world wide web
- voting rights at the Association*s General Meetings and Council
elections
- active participation in the international community of oral
historians.

Membership is open to any individual or institution supporting the
goals and objectives of the Association. The Association is governed by
a Council elected at the General Meeting held at the biennial
international oral history conference. The President of the Association
is Marieta de Moraes Ferreira from Brazil and current Council members
come from Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, New Zealand, South
Africa, Spain, Sudan, Turkey and the United States.

For membership enquiries e-mail the Association*s secretary and
treasurer, Almut Leh (almut.leh@fernuni-hagen.de).

Fees for two-year membership (July 2000 - June 2002)

Individuals: 90DM / 46 *
Institutions: 180DM / 92 *
Students: 45DM / 23 *