What will happen for oral history in the future?
The growth of technology and public access to communication facilities in various fields and expansion of using artificial intelligence (AI) have faced the future of some jobs with ambiguity and hesitation. Will oral history also suffer this fate and join the ring of disciplines that gradually fade, and their importance decrease? In response to the question, we must see what is the axis of oral history around which this field was formed and ...A Reflection on the Relationship between Oral History and Art (Final Fart)
Balance in Effect
People of knowledge consider existence as a product of balance, proportion and harmony in all parts and aspects that everything is in its place and every event takes place in a logical and natural framework and all creatures are placed together in a balanced way and play a role. Therefore, balance is one of the essentials of creation, and ...A Reflection on the Relationship between Oral History and Art – 2
Its Form and Importance
Oral history is the product of human action and humans are different from each other. It has never been possible to repeat and realize all the works in all periods. The facilities and historical and cultural contexts are not the same. By the way, this is where human talent and art emerge; The talent and art that comes out of the creativity and ability of the oral history researcher.A Reflection on the Relationship between Oral History and Art- 1
Oral history is a collection of words and sentences with a specific purpose, which must have thematic, literary and content discipline in order to meet the needs of the audience. What does such a phenomenon have to do with art? If there is a relationship, is it only in formal aspects or in the content as well?A Spring Note
A Conversation for Today and Yesterday Inspired by Nature
Spring song is heard. The earth shows its colorful face. Nature is on the path of excellence and leaves winter behind. It is as if this eternal teacher reminds people that the past is not unrelated to today and tomorrow. In order to reach spring, one must experience winter and note that the ...Comprehensiveness and Amnesia in “Oral History”
According to the author, it can be claimed in some ways that Iran is the land of cultural "epidemics"! At any time, it is possible to witness that a wave of attention to a cultural field in the country starts at once, and several centers pay attention to a common work widely. The example of writing encyclopedias is a prominent example of this type of cultural epidemic that we witnessed its ...An overview of the challenges of news interviews and oral history interviews
A Reporter Who Absolutely Ignored Oral History Book
In the late 2010s, I accepted an oral history project at the suggestion of a friend; without knowing the depth of the prerequisites, dos, don'ts and challenges of the oral history interview. I did an hour-long interview a week, and when it was over, I felt that the amount of energy spent was more than news interviews and it didn't go as smoothly as I thought.A Critique on Oral history of War Commanders
“Answering Historical Questions and Ambiguities Instead of Individual-Organizational Identification”
“Oral history of Commanders” is reviewed with the assumption that in the field of war historiography, applying this method is narrated in an advancing “new” way, with the aim of war historiography, emphasizing role of commanders in creation of its situations and details.Three Achievements of Cultural History for War Researchers
Perhaps the claim that the most important influence of cultural history on war studies was the deconstruction of the concept of "history" and the concept of "war" is not an exaggerated one. Cultural history actually deconstructed the concept of war and the history of war. Cultural history tells us not to see the war exclusively in the contexts, manifestations of the people who were only on the battlefield, but also see the contexts adjacent to it.ORAL HISTORY WORKS AND UPCOMING PROBLEMS (1)
In order to understand more about the problems of producing books on the subject of oral history or memoirs, the oral history website has conducted short interviews with some experts and practitioners, which will be presented to the readers in short notes and in several parts. Haste: Haste is a big problem in research works, but it is more visible in oral history. This problem is more related to the clients.1
...
The latest
Most visited
- The 360th Night of Memory
- Oral History News of October-November 2024
- Critique Oral History Works to Prevent Repetition of Past Errors
- Da (Mother) 126
- Oral history education should not rely on individuals
- Memoirs of Haj Abolfazl Almasi
- An Excerpt from the Memoirs of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
- Da (Mother) 127
Study and Research as Foundations for the Authenticity of Narrators
The book Pari Khane-ye Ma (Our House’s pari), the latest work by Behnaz Zarrabizadeh, was unveiled in May 2024 at the Tehran International Book Fair. This work comprises the memories of nine families of martyrs—Bahadorbeigi, Bayat, Teymouri, Changizi, Hajibabaei, Sarabi, Azizi, Moradi, and Momeni—hailing from ...Memoirs of Batool Borhaneshkouri
Wife of Martyr Mohammad Javad TondgooyanShe stirred the food and tasted it. Everything was ready. She turned off the stove. She took out cucumber, lettuce, and tomato from the refrigerator and placed them next to the salad bowl, then got busy making the salad. This afternoon, Somayeh-Hoda and Youssef were coming for lunch, and she had cooked Youssef’s favorite dish.
Destiny Had It So
Memoirs of Seyyed Nouraddin AfiIt was early October 1982, just two or three days before the commencement of the operation. A few of the lads, including Karim and Mahmoud Sattari—the two brothers—as well as my own brother Seyyed Sadegh, came over and said, "Come on, let's head towards the water." It was the first days of autumn, and the air was beginning to cool, but I didn’t decline their invitation and set off with them.
The interviewer is the best compiler
According to Oral History Website, Dr. Morteza Rasoulipour in the framework of four online sessions described the topic “Compilation in Oral History” in the second half of the month of Mordad (August 2024). It has been organized by the Iranian History Association. In continuation, a selection of the teaching will be retold:
