The 2015 Annual Conference of the Oral History Society (OHS 2015)

We invite proposals for oral history-based contributions, including papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays on the following topics: Personal voices: What scientists, engineers, mathematicians and clinicians do Interviewee perspectives The methodological challenges of interviewing practitioners and theorists Myth and story in the workplace Hidden and unheard voices from the science and medicine workplace Institutional voices: Health Service perspectives Government science and industrial science Companies, research laboratories and corporations in science and engineering Place, space and communities of identity Private medical institutions Oral histories of professional organisations Community voices: Amateur science Traditional medicine Crowdsourcing Local communities and scientific workplaces Understanding technologies in everyday life User perspectives on science and technology Issues-led oral history: Global warming and environmental change Gender and ethnicity in the scientific workplace Informal communities Science and the media: the role of history and personal stories Science policy and politics: The role of government The privatisation of science and technology Professionalisation and professional politics The management and administration of science and medicine Innovation and invention: Oral history and understanding the process of invention and maintaining existing beliefs Creating, archiving and re-using oral histories of science, technology and medicine: Funding and ethics Using video in documenting science practice Re-using and reinterpreting archived oral history data Archivist perspectives Juxtaposing oral and traditional sources Public engagement, display and exhibition which uses oral history