In addition, both government and private groups have continually sponsored discussion sessions with large groups of elderly people. Themes have included everything from the evolution of marital and funereal customs and the rise and fall of traditional industries like pastry-making and clothing to education and military affairs in the Japanese occupation era and the origins of poetry societies. The transcripts of these seminars also count as oral histories, broadly speaking.
另一方面，不管是政府或是民間社團，這幾年都有大規模的耆老座談會持續地在進行，座談的主題從婚喪習俗的演變、傳統產業如糕餅、布莊等的興衰，到日據時代軍事、教育的狀況，詩社的源流…… 等包羅萬象，這類耆老座談的記錄，也算廣義的口述歷史。