OHI introduced its Board during a public seminar on oral history in Tirana on March 29, 2016.

The seminar was organized in collaboration with the Department of History, Faculty of History and Philology, Tirana University and the South East Europe Social Contract Institute (SSCI).

The seminar, introduced by the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Valentina Duka, and moderated by KOHI Director Professor Anna Di Lellio, included the following talks:

Professor Alessandro Portelli, “ The Art of the Interview and Interpretation of Interviews;” Robert Elsie,The Tradition of Orality in South East Europe;” and Sonja Biserko and Professor Arbnora Dushi, “A Conversation on the Practice of Interviews and the Production of National Memory in South East Europe.”

Watch these presentations here.