Aiso’s Presentation

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AISO (Associazione Italiana di Storia Orale, Italian Oral History Association) was formed in Rome in 2006, in response to IOHA’s invitation to Italian oral historians, on the occasion of the Rome International Oral History Conference (2004) to establish an organization in order to gather, organize and coordinate Italy’s many individuals and structures working with oral sources. AISO membership is open to individuals and organizations or institutions that support its respond its research aims and methods. The board and the president are elected every two years, and are responsible for the association’s scientific orientation. At present, AISO’s president is Gabriella Gribaudi, professor of Contemporary History at Naples’ Federico II University.

AISO’s office is located at the Casa della Memoria e della Storia (House of Memory and History), in spaces provided by the Circolo Gianni Bosio, in via San Francesco di Sales 5, 00186 Rome. The Association has created a website, which includes a section where one can hear researchers’ presentations at its seminars; a section on research tools and methods; and one with news and information (www.aisoitalia.org)

In 2006-2007, AISO promoted a national conference and a seminar on collecting and using oral sources in historiography, with contributions from scholars from all over the country. In 2008, the Association held a workshop on the use of audiovisual means for the history of ’68. In 2009, it organized an international conference at the university of Padua, on “The Memory of Work.”

Since March, 2008, AISO publishes an on-line Bollettino informativo, which includes news, feature articles, book ad media reports. From 2008, AISO presents a teaching seminar, “Learning to Record,” which offers technical guidance for recording, archiving and indexing oral sources.