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After three years in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 2009 to 2011, WOMEX will be moving south in 2012. The new host city is Thessaloniki, Greece's second major economic and political centre, located right by the Mediterranean Sea. With its 2300-year past, it's one of the oldest cities in Europe and a true cultural melting pot, bearing traces of an eventful history between Orient and Occident. Renowned for its vibrant cultural life, it is considered to be Greece's cultural capital.

In 2013, WOMEX will be exploring Celtic grounds: Cardiff in Wales, United Kingdom, has won the international bid to host WOMEX from Wednesday, 23 to Sunday, 27 October 2013.

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Oral History Society Annual Conference: 2012

The next OHS annual conference, Displaced Childhoods: Oral history and traumatic experiences will take place in Reading on 13-14 July 2012. The conference aims to bring together oral history practitioners who explore the topic of disturbed, disrupted and traumatic childhoods within academic, community and therapeutic settings.