From “A Glance on the Principles of Development” to “the call for 11th meeting”

Biannual Journal of Oral History, Issue No.3, Published.

Mohammad li Fatemi
Translated by: Soheila Heidari

2017-2-27

Biannual and scientific journal of Oral history, issue 3, is the latest work published in oral history field. This issue dated spring and summer 2016, but it’s being published in winter 2017.

Biannual journal of Oral History is published by National Library and Arshives of Islamic Republic of Iran. Mohammad Javad Moradi Nia is the president and Gholam Reza Azizi is the editor in chief.  Editorial boards are famous names in this field:  Faezeh Tavakoli, Abolfazl Hassanabadi, Morteza Rasoulipour, Aliasghar Saeedi, Ali Tatari, Hamid Abdolahian, Heshmatolah Azizi, Ghomareza Azizi, Saeed Fakhrzade, Mohsen Kazemi, alireza Kamari, Morteza Nourayee and Shafighe Niknafs.

This issue begins with “ A Glance on the Principles of Development in Oral History” written by Alireza  Kamari and it follows with: Oral History \ definitions, history, memoir, oral tradition, interviews, oral history and changes, oral history as a opportunity, validation and verification (Mohsen Kazemi & Houshang Khosrobeigi). Link of Cultural History and Oral History\ ontology of cultural history and oral history, evaluation the epistemological commonalities between cultural history and oral history, time in cultural history and oral history, the role and status of memory in cultural history and oral history, the development of social science approaches from the outcomes of cultural history and oral history’s advent, proposing the concept of current and present history- on the subject of cultural history and oral history, methodology of cultural history and oral history ( commonality and differentiation) (Mohammad Amir Ahmadzadeh). A Report on Oral History of Religious Schools of Women in Mashhad (Shokouhosadat Sameie). Pioneering the Life Story Method (Paul Tompson, translation: Soheila Safari), Web-based Information Giving of Oral History Interviews of the National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran\ describing the resources of oral history, machine readable cataloging (MARC), entering the information of oral history worksheets into Rasa software, puting the digital file of interviews intheto digital library (Peimaneh Salehi). An Introduction to a Manual for Preparation of the Texts of Oral History Interviews for Publication \ the criteria for selecting interviewees and reviewing the text of interview, explaining the procedure for publishing interviews, transferring worksheets for publishing the interviews of oral history, explaining the procedures to prepare the interview, vocalization (people’s name, name of places, terms, ownership and…(Roya Mohammadlou).Oral History of the Schools of Association of the followers of the Qur’an in Mashhad (Mohammad Nazarzadeh).

In the review, this title is seen:  A New Attitude towards the Necessity of Addressing the Fundamentals of Memory Studies in the Historiography of War\ Criticism of the book: Poresemane-e Yad “Memory Query” (Abolfazl Hasanabadi). In Report section, these titles are seen: Themes of the Proposed Issues of Oral History in the World \ A Report on the Nineteenth International Conference of Oral History in India (Abolfazl Hasanabadi), A Meeting on the Challenges of Preparing Texts of Oral History Interviews for Publishing (Peimaneh Salehi). Art and literature of Islamic Revolution: an Inexhaustible Source of Subject for performing Oral History in Iran (Faranak Jamshidi). A Report on the First Short-period Training Course of Oral History, Held in Payame Noor University (Mohammad Mirkazemi).

Biannual of oral history, issue 3, ends with:  This is Tehran: Selected Interviews of Oral History in the National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran with Mr. RezaS ajjadi\ (Fahime Azadeh), a call for national conference on development of oral history (the 11^th meeting on Oral history) and the list and abstracts of articles in English.

This journal with 246 pages (176 pages in Persian and 70 pages in English) has been published in print form in a circulation of 150 and it’s also available at (http://nlai.ir/default.aspx?tabid=7926)