Learning Circle
The Learning Circle started as an experiment in engaging with core ideas within oral history practice and reflecting on how we could absorb them into our practice.
The Learning Circle offers two kinds of programmes: a weekend programme on specific issues related to oral history and a longer month-long programme dedicated to reading a few key texts, engaging with them and exploring how we assimilate and integrate them into our approach to oral history.
We will discuss ethics and technical aspects. We will discuss, debate, argue and enjoy the process of doing interviews. Enjoyment is an element that serious research seems to push aside, but the oral history interview, like any human interaction is a process that is most successful when we approach it with a lightness of touch and enjoyment.
All participants are expected to have had some basic training in oral history and at the time of joining the Learning Circle are expected to have done at least two long interviews and have the recording and transcription ready with them.
There will be no certification but a lot of learning, thinking and churning.
The first two Learning Circles met three times a month on a fixed day for a 90 minute online session for a three month period every time. The participants were Ph.D. and Masters students, film makers, archivists, NGO workers who were using oral history. There were a few participants who were engaged in doing oral history interviews with family members.
Learning Circle on Asking and Listening.
On 2nd and 3rd August 2025.
Last date for signing up 15 July 2025.
Registration Details
To register for Learning Circle click on the registration button given below. Details about duration and timing will be in registration form.
Maximum number of students
10
Discussions
- Readings are circulated in advance.
- Weekend Learning Circles that focus on specific themes are led by Indira. The month-long Learning Circle is led by an invited speaker and Indira.
Fees
- Fees for each type of Learning Circle and Payment details (UPI/bank transfer) will be sent over email after you register.
- A link to join the Learning Circle meetings will be sent to you after you have registered and paid the fees.