Speakers & Panelists

Keynoters Speakers

Donald Ritchie
Oral History in Times of Change
Historian of the United States Senate
October 27^th, 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 27^th, 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