XVI Int. Oral History Conference Abstracts Would Be Published
10 April 2011
The 16th international oral history conference, “Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning”, was held on 7-11 July 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.
About 500 oral historians from over fifty different countries participated in the conference and presented their research at the University of Economics.
The international Oral History Association has provided a collection of all the abstracts of research presented in the conference, in 505 pages, for the ones who are interested. This collection is accessible for everyone on the website of the International Oral History Association, for free. Moreover, the association will soon publish many of the excellent papers and research, after reviewing them, on the first special online issue of Words and Silences.
To access the abstracts you may go to this website:
http://www.iohanet.org/conferences/2010_Conference/IOHA%202010%20-%20Conference%20abstracts%20_corrected_.pdf
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