Proposals are now being accepted from those wishing to present at the 2026 OHA Biennial Conference to be held in Tardanya/Adelaide, South Australia, on the lands of the Kaurna people, from 3-6 December. The submission deadline is 11 May 2026.
The conference is being presented jointly by Oral History Australia and Oral History Australia SA/NT. The theme is the very timely ‘Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity’ and features world-leading oral history and technology expert Doug Boyd as keynote speaker.
Professor Doug Boyd, PhD, is the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Centre for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recent president of the Oral History Association. Boyd envisioned, designed and implemented the open source and free OHMS system, which synchronises text with audio and video online. In 2019, Boyd received a Fulbright Scholars Research Grant to collaborate with the National Library of Australia on innovative access to online oral history. He is the author of Oral History: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
For further information, go to:
- the Call for Presentations – https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-conference-2026/cfp/
- the conference home page – https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/biennial-conference-2026/.