In recent months Australians have had plenty of reminders that life on earth is severely threatened. An unfolding climate catastrophe. Years of drought, then flooding rains. A Black Summer of bushfire. And the coronavirus is changing the way we live while having subtle and dramatic impacts on the human and natural environments. In recent years, many oral historians have been listening to stories about people’s relationships with our environment. In this Oral History Victoria Symposium, leading Australian oral historians of the environment will share what they have learnt from their interviews about environmental history and about oral history.

This interactive, online, FREE event will be conducted via Zoom. Registration is required to attend. Attendees will be advised by email before the event as to how to join the symposium online.

Keynote speaker:

Peg Fraser, former Museum Victoria curator and author of the award-winning book, Black Saturday: Not the End of the Story (Monash University Publishing, 2018)

Other presenters:

Deb Anderson, Monash University
Lorina Barker, University of New England
Katie Holmes, La Trobe University
Scott McKinnon, University of Wollongong
Karen Twigg, La Trobe University

Please note:

This is a free event for both OHV members and non-members, but registration is required.

OHV reserves the right to cancel this event in the case of unforeseen circumsntaces, in which case a fullrefund will be made.