Workshops

Institute staff provide guidance and education by executing several oral history workshops each year. These workshops range from introductory to specialized, from privately-arranged to those where registration is literally open to the world.

Online Workshops

The Institute for Oral History offers a selection of training workshops each year participants can attend from the comfort of their own home or office! These workshops are presented via Webex as narrated PowerPoint presentations featuring salient media clips or web tours to enhance the experience. Our online offerings fall under one of two categories:

Getting Started with Oral History is an online workshop offered twice a year. The workshop introduces participants from around the world to oral history project planning, interviewing techniques, equipment choices, ethical and legal considerations, and tips for preserving and sharing your interviews.

Sharpen Your Skills is a series of advanced online workshops designed to reinvigorate experienced oral historians with new ideas and inspiration for improving their skills. These workshops are offered annually each spring. 

NEW THIS AUGUST: Oral History at a Distance
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from a distance is now an ongoing and necessary approach in the oral historian’s toolkit. Based on the book Oral History at a Distance published by Routledge in June 2024 for the Practicing Oral History series, the experienced team members of Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History will provide a roadmap for adapting traditional best practices and procedures to this new environment while maintaining the standards oral historians hold dear.

In-Person Workshops

Training and Consultation Services

The Institute for Oral History encourages professional oral history scholarship through training workshops, lectures, and evaluations of interviews or projects. To ask questions about your project or to propose a workshop in your area, contact us.