Abstract This piece evokes the first contacts of the author with individuals and groups that practiced oral history in the years around the 1970s. Those contacts gave rise to a network of scientific and friendly exchanges that lasted for decades, although the net included many oral historians that have now disappeared. Thus the origin of the notions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity is explored. A series of oral history conferences are remembered, which originally took place in Europe and the United States, while later on they extended to cover a global web.
Luisa Passerini (Thu,) studied this question.