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Invitation for Membership :

The International Oral History Association was formally constituted in June 1996 at the IXth International Oral History Conference in Goteborg, Sweden.

The Association provides a forum for oral historians around the world, in order to foster international communication, collaboration, and a better understanding of the nature and value of oral history. Benefits of membership include:

  • concessionary rates for the biennial international oral history conferences.
  • Words and Silences/Palabras y Silencios, the annual, bilingual (English and Spanish) journal of the IOHA (containing articles and commentaries on oral history issues).
  • access to IOHA News/ BoletĚn, the online newsletter (containing conference announcements and reports, regional and national news, book and journal reviews, and information about the association; published biannually in January and June).
  • access to the IOHA home page on the world wide web
           http://www.ioha.fgv.br
  • voting rights at the Association's General Meetings and Council elections
  • active participation in the international community of oral historians
Membership is open to any individual or institution supporting the goals and objectives of the Association. The Association is governed by a Council elected at a General Meeting held at the biennial international oral history conference. The current President of the Association is Al Thomson from UK / Australia, and current council members come from Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the United States. The next General Meeting will be held in in 2008 at at the IOHA conference in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Fees for two year (June 2006 - June 2008) membership:
Individual: 45 euros
Student: 22 euros
Institutional: 90 euros 

Download membership application form:    MS Word version   or   Adobe Acrobat (pdf) version
Send completed form to: 
Almuth Leh.
Treasurer,
International Oral History Association,
c/o Institut f¸r Geschichte und Biographie,
Fernuniversitat Hagen,
Leibigstr. 11,
D-58511 Ludenscheid,
Germany.
almut.leh@FernUni-Hagen.de
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