About COHA

The Czech Oral History Association (COHA) has its roots at the 14th International Oral History Association Conference in Sydney in July 2006, where the idea to establish a national association was initially raised. The association was officially founded on January 8, 2007, at the founding general assembly. COHA is a member of the International Oral History Association and the Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic (on November 1, 2017, the Czech National Oral History Committee was incorporated into COHA).

 

Our main goals are:

• to create methodological rules and guidelines for the use of oral history in scholarly research in order to protect it from unscientific use;
• to follow the ethical code of oral history research;
• to assist newly established institutions, using oral history, and provide information on new projects, publications, and conferences;
• to share information regarding oral history within the oral history community;
• to interconnect existing oral history archives.

 

Our main activities include:

• international conference,
• oral history workshop,
• the Golden Recorder student award (Zlatý diktafon),
• publishing activities,
• MEMO: Oral History Journal.

 

Membership

We welcome individual and institutional members who have an explicit interest in oral history, its use, and theoretical and methodological reflection. Find out more about COHA membership here.

 

Contact information

E-mail: info@coha.cz

Tel.: (+420) 224 271 426

Postal address: Czech Oral History Association, Pátkova 2137/5, 182 00 Prague 8 – Libeň, Czechia