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Keynoters Speakers

Donald Ritchie
Oral History in Times of Change

Historian of the United States Senate
October 27th, 2014, 11:20am-12:30pm

Tu WeiMing
Realizing the Humanistic Spirit in the Context of Local Culture。
Director, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University
and Senior Research Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University
October 28th, 2014, 9:20am – 10:30 am

 

Plenary Speaker

Sandra Fried China Library Landscape Study Report
Program Officer: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
October 28th, 2014, 8:30 am – 9:20 am

Panel Discussants

The Importance of Public Libraries for Doing Oral History
October 28th, 2014, 11:00am – 12:30 pm

Xuming Zou 邹 序 明, Chair
Vice Director of Hunan Provincial Library

Rob Perks
Lead Curator of Oral History, British Library
and
Director of National Life Stories, Great Britain
 

Jasimina Ninkow
Director of Belgrade City Library

Jiazhong Fang
Director of Guangzhou Library

Shuqing Chu
Director of Hangzhou Youth Library and a researcher in Library Science

Brian Q. Cannon
Professor of History,
Brigham Young University

Jesley Chua
Assistant Director of the Oral History Centre, National Archives of Singapore

Donglai Li
Director of Dongguan Library

Hongqiu Bi
Deputy director of Heilongjiang Provincial Library

 

Break Out Sessions

October 27th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Session Chair
1. Impact of Oral History on Local Community
   4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 
Michael Umphrey
Director of the Montana Heritage Project

Presenters
Steven Kotze
2. Principles and Best Practices in Oral History
   2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Zizhou Wang 王子舟
Professor, Peking University
3. Planning Oral History Projects
   2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Ruth Olson
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
4. Role of Oral History in Student Learning
   2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
 
Michael Umphrey
Director of the Montana Heritage Project
5. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Oral History
   4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Dr. Peili Yin
Peking University
6. Oral History in the Digital Age
    2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Brian Q. Cannon
Professor of History,
Brigham Young University

Presenters:
Dr. Lili Luo
San Jose State University
"Digital Storytelling in the Library

7. Oral History Archiving and Access
    2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Nancy Mackay
San Jose State University

Presenters:
Anne Ritchie
Lauren Kata

Workshop Chairs

October 27th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Workshop Chair
1. How to Assess your oral history project
   4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Jo Bell Whitlatch
Professor Emerita, San Jose State University

Liyun Hu
Professor, School of Public Administration, YunNan University

2. Archiving Oral History Interviews
   4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Nancy Mackay

Oral Historian, San Jose State University

Lauren Kata
Archivist, National Archives of the Episcopal Church

Presenters:

Rob Perks
Lead Curator of Oral History, British Library
and
Director of National Life Stories, Great Britain

3. Sharing International Experiences
   4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Miao Tian

Deputy Director of China Memory Project Center, National Library of China

 

Presenters:
Wong Hwai Fey
National Archives of Singapore
Wong Wai Ling 王惠玲
HK Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Hsu, Hsueh-chi
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

 

Dialogue

The Importance of Oral History for Local Communities
October 28th, 2014, 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
 

Dialgue Discussants
The Importance of Oral History for Local Communities

Xiangying Yang, Chair
Director of The Institute of Oral History, Wenzhou University

Jianguang Tang, Speaker
Chief Editor of New History Omni-media Cultural Platform

Rob Perks, Speaker
Lead Curator of Oral History, British Library
and
Director of National Life Stories, Great Britain

Na Li, Respondent
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
Chongqing University

Donald Ritchie, Respondent
Historian of the United States Senate

Yizhuang Ding, Respondent

Research Fellow,the Institute of History,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences