RIHO – Revista Interdisciplinar de Historia Oral is founded with the aim of becoming a leading space for the study of orality, memory and testimony within the Iberian academic world. Published by the Institute of Contemporary Studies, Politics and Governance and the Julio Caro Baroja Institute of Historiography, both at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the journal is based on a clear conviction: oral sources not only broaden our knowledge of the past, but also require us to rethink the methods, languages and frameworks through which we study it.

At a time when academia increasingly calls for more open and connected approaches, RIHO aims to be a meeting point for disciplines that work with orality as a central source. History, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Social Psychology, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities and Heritage Studies all find here a shared space for dialogue and experimentation. In this way, the journal seeks to give fresh momentum to a field with a strong international tradition, but one that still needs to strengthen its articulation across the Iberian Peninsula.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

2026-05-11

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Oral History invites submissions of proposals for thematic dossiers and for the Miscellany and Historiographical Debate sections.

Profile and scope

The journal is being launched to provide continuity — and renewed impetus — to research in oral history. Our aim is to consolidate an interdisciplinary space in which orality, memory and testimony constitute the empirical core, bringing into dialogue history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, social psychology and cultural studies.

Preferred lines of research:

● Experiences, memories and identities (local/national/transnational scales).
● Methodological innovation: interview design and ethics, narrative and discourse analysis, prosody and performativity; audiovisual ethnography; cartographies and networks.
● Subaltern voices, decolonial approaches, gender and sexualities, health and the medical humanities, education and memory studies, intangible cultural heritage (songs, narratives, rituals), war/post-conflict memories, trauma and intergenerational transmission, rurality and countryside/city relations, etc.
● Educational innovation projects based on orality in Spain and from a comparative perspective.

We accept submissions in Spanish, Catalan/Valencian, Basque, Galician and Portuguese (with trilingual abstracts in accordance with the editorial guidelines).

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