Date: 11-12 March 2006
11 March iSat.)@13:30-16:30
12 March iSun.)@10:30-16:30

Venue: Japan Women's University, Mejiro campus
2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Multi Media Room (Centenniel Building) 4th Floor
http://www.jwu.ac.jp/gn/location.htm
Admission: Free
Enter the main gate; venue is in the high rise bldg on the right. http://www.jwu.ac.jp/etcpub/map.htm

Lecturer: Sherna Berger Gluck, Director Emeritus of the Oral
History Program, California State University Long Beach (OHA New Media Committee member, co-director of Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive at California State University Long Beach. In the archive, there are over 1,000 hours of original recordings in women's, ethnic, labor and local Long Beach history online. Publications are numerous; one of which is "Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History.)

Moderator: Robert Gettings, Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College

Program:
Day 1 Keynote Speech by Sherna B. Gluck
With the rapid progress of Information Technology (IT) in the USA, Sherna Gluck was one of the first to deal with the new technology in Oral History by setting up an archive for the Internet. She will speak on its influence on the oral history interview skills, ethical issues, as well as the relationships of interviewer/interviewee and problems of publicizing the oral history contents on the website.

Day 2 Practice in oral history interview and presentations of case studies
Sherna Gluck will actually demonstrate an interview and comment on the skills with discussion on the dynamics between the interviewer and the interviewee. Q&A from the floor.

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Demonstration and Discussion on the Interview Skills in Oral History
Interviewer: Sherna Gluck
Interviewee: Ann Sado, Executive Director of Legacy Memoirs
Moderator: Kayoko Yoshida, Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College

1:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Three case studies by the practitioners of Oral History in Japan
Discussion with the participants will follow on the results and issues they are facing, as well as Q&A from the floor.
Mr. Yusuke Iwanami (Marketing Writer)
Ms. Naoko Kato (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, researcher)
Mr. Motohiro Matsuda (NPO Living History, Board Director)
Moderator: Atsushi Sakurai, (JOHA President, Chiba University)
Commentator: Sherna Gluck

For more details:
Please contact by e-mail: Kayoko Yoshida at kyoshida@hokusei.ac.jp or Ann Sado at sado@legacy.co.jp

*Special Thanks to Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, and the cooperation of Japan Women's University