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The Oral History Association of India (OHAI) founded in 2013 aims to provide a forum where oral hist

Oral history is now seen both as a method and as a field that records memories and experiences of individuals and communities whose voices would remain unheard otherwise. Often, in the absence of archival documents, oral history functions as an important tool that can be used to record histories of institutions and organizations – filling up gaps in our knowledge of the past and enabling different, sometimes contentious, but always valuable perspectives that contribute to a complex and textured understanding of the past and its relationship to the present. Although oral history is not a formal discipline in India, there have been many oral historians who have been very active in the field for more than three decades. Until now, there was no forum for people engaged in oral history to share their experience and expertise. The Oral History Association of India (OHAI) founded in 2013 aims to provide such a forum where oral historians can share their work and discuss the latest issues in the field – theoretical as well as technical.

01/08/2026

The 12th annual conference of the Oral History Association of India will be held in collaboration with the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Silchar, Assam.

Detailed Call for Papers can be found here: https://ohai.info/events/12th-annual-conference-call-for-papers/

Abstract submission portal of the conference is now open: https://forms.gle/UzmJ4ecVBCjhH2kg6

Abstract submission deadline is 10 September 2026.

Conference dates: 4-5-6 February 2027

We encourage you to participate in the conference and look forward to welcoming oral historians from all over India in Silchar.

20/07/2026

Join us for Memory and the City: The Many Lives of Hyderabad, a wonderful conversation on oral history, memory, and the city between author Daneesh Majid and Dr. Vinita Sinha. We would love to have you there!
Date: Sunday, 26th July, 11:00 am
Venue: Cafe Bloom, Neeti Bagh Club, New Delhi
Please note that Hyderabadi High tea will be served prior to the discussion at 10:30 am.
To help us save a spot for you, attendance is through registration.

Kindly sign up using this link to confirm your presence: https://forms.gle/ahiXBtnUjoZpg4gAA

Looking forward to a wonderful morning together!

26/06/2026

📣 Call for Submissions: OHAI Varta 2027–28

The Oral History Association of India (OHAI) invites contributions for the upcoming editions of Varta, its biannual newsletter for 2027–28.

Whether you are an oral historian, archivist, researcher, student, curator, or practitioner working with memory, narratives, and lived experiences, we welcome your submissions from India and across the world.

We invite contributions across a range of categories, including but not limited to):

• In the Field
• Interview Excerpts
• Oral History Methods
• Oral History & Technology
• Around the World
• Book, Museum & Archive Reviews
• Photo Essays
• Orality & Oral History (Sound Essays)
• Announcements

🗓 Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026

📧 Send your submissions to: [email protected]
with the subject line: Submission for OHAI Varta 2027-28

Join us in documenting voices, preserving memories, and expanding conversations around oral history across diverse communities and geographies.

06/03/2026

How do memory, archives, and fiction shape one another? ✨

Join us for the next OHAI Adda with Jane Borges , senior journalist, author, and oral historian, who will speak about Soboicar, an oral history project conducted with The Citizens' Archive of India that documents the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan Coast to South Mumbai.

Through interviews, photographs, and material memory, the project reconstructs the histories of once-vibrant Catholic neighbourhoods in the original island city of Bombay. In this conversation, Jane will also reflect on how her fiction writing first inspired her to begin building this collection, and how the stories uncovered through the project have inspired her to write more fiction.

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