CALL FOR PAPERS

Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu: Working Together

The National Oral History Association of New Zealand invites proposals for presentations for its 2024 biennial conference to be held 15-17 November 2024 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Successful oral histories are built upon creative working relationships between interviewers and interviewees. The 2024 conference encourages discussion about ‘working together’ and the stories people tell, to whom, when, and why. Two key themes will be explored. Kōrero mai, or ‘speak to me’, focuses on relationship building in oral history. It reflects upon questions of trust and reciprocity that underpin oral history work and how these relationships may shape the stories people tell.

Kōrero atu, or ‘speak out’, considers the responsibilities interviewers and interviewees face both during and after the interview. This includes the obligations interviewees may feel to their iwi, hapū, whānau, or community, how these relationships affect the stories they tell (or don’t tell), and the restrictions they place on the use and archiving of interviews. It also includes how oral historians honour the stories people share as we move the project from interviewing to archiving, analysis, and publication in print or in other forms.

We invite you to submit proposals on relevant topics. These may include, but are not limited to:
· Working in partnership with communities and storytellers, sharing authority
· Upholding te mana raraunga (Māori intellectual property) in oral history research
· Oral history as testimony in activism and advocacy: the power of the voice to enact change
· Ethical archiving – where and how to store oral histories; innovative approaches to archiving
· Obligations to communities and to each other in oral history research
· Publishing oral histories and oral history research online
· Working with the Privacy Act
· Using oral history in the classroom
· Negotiating ethical issues that arise when undertaking oral history research

The conference also invites presentations on recent oral history projects, which do not need to address the conference themes. Proposals for panel discussions or presentations are welcome.

Please submit your abstract to nohanz2024@gmail.com by 31 March 2024.

Proposals should include a paper title, abstract of no more than 200 words, presentation style (individual paper or panel), name and affiliation (if applicable) of presenter/s, and contact details.

Contact Information
Cheryl Ware 
Contact Email: c.ware@auckland.ac.nz

International Conference
Riga, Latvia
October 29-31, 2024

Approaching its 100 th anniversary, the Archives of Latvian Folklore (1924), in close
cooperation with the SIEF Working Group on Archives and the SIEF Working Group on
Cultural Heritage and Property, invites contributions for an international conference
addressing a diverse range of issues related to present and future of the archives of
traditional culture. The centenary is, of course, a good reason to look back and take stock of
what has been done, to understand how the histories of archiving have developed in
different countries. But what we would like to do even more at this conference is to assess
current situations and to look ahead, say, to the next 10 years.

What is the state of play in archiving and maintaining archives of intangible cultural heritage (in Europe and elsewhere)? What could the near future of tradition archives look like? What can we expect with certainty? What major research and infrastructure projects are planned in the archives? Do the next few years look optimistic for individual archives as well as their networks, or the other way around? What challenges lie ahead of us (legal, ethical, technological, of values)? What new archiving solutions can be offered? What can we learn from the past?

The conference will deal broadly with retrospective and prospective dimensions of archives of folklore, ethnology, and ethnography, encompassing both historical documentation and documentation of living traditions practiced today. We invite folklorists, archivists and researchers from other relevant disciplines to share their studies and critical reflections by submitting paper proposals that would fit into the following thematic sections, all concerning the archives of traditional culture:
● Archives’ history lessons
● International contexts and cooperation
● Current global challenges, including geopolitical and climatic fluctuations
● Archives’ legal issues and current developments, including intellectual property
issues and ethics in a digital landscape
● Archival replenishment strategies (cultural memory perspectives and beyond); new
structuring and categories; archiving for documentation of ICH projects
● Information technology challenges, including social media and AI; interactivity within
digital archives
● Engaging society; community driven / open-source archives; collaboration between
archives and community groups; proactively engaging in field research and
community projects, especially with under-represented groups and communities
● Repatriation

Please send your proposals by January 31, 2024 to the e-mail address lfk@lulfmi.lv.
Submissions should include the name and affiliation of the participant, the paper title and an abstract (up to 300 words).

Contact Information
Conference e-mail: lfk@lulfmi.lv
URL: https://en.lfk.lv