Below is the schedule of panels that will be live-streamed on the OHA Facebook page during the Annual Meeting:
THURSDAY OCTOBER 11TH
African American Oral History
Paper Session
8:30 to 10:00 am (E.S.T.)
Participants:
Everyone Has a Story: The Role of Oral Tradition among Grassroots Preservationists in Texas’ Historic African American Settlements, Andrea R. Roberts, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
Let the Lawyer do the Talking: Shaping Social Movement Narratives of the Long Sixties, Camilo Eugenio Lund-Montano, University of California, Berkeley
Mississippi’s Other Movement: Lessons from the Digital Starkville Civil Rights Project, Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University
Writing about Traveling while Black: Impact of Green Book, Newspapers, and Oral-History on Travel History of an African-American Family, Kathryn Dungy, St. Michael’s College; Ray Black, Colorado State University
Chair:
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami University
Civil Rights and Human Rights: Digital and Oral Histories in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Panel
10:30 to 12:00 pm (E.S.T.)
Participants:
Journalists in the Long and Wide Civil Rights Movement: The Untold Story Behind the Storytellers, Melita M. Garza, Texas Christian University
Civil Rights, Human Rights, Labor Rights: Farmworkers and Migration in the US Southwest, Veronica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona
Killing the Messengers: The Importance of Oral History for Freedom of Expression in Mexico and Beyond, Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante, University of Arizona
Desert Voices: Notes on Producing an Oral History Website with a Journalism History Class, Linda Lumsden, University of Arizona
Chair:
Anna Sheftel, Saint Paul University
Race, Memory, and Reconciliation: The Aftermath of the 2015 Charleston Killings
Panel
1:45 to 3:15 pm (E.S.T.)
Participants:
Making Sense of the Tragedy: Oral History and the Emanuel Massacre, Marina Laura Lopez, Citadel Oral History Program
Teaching the Emanuel Massacre in the Charleston Classroom, Kieran W. Taylor, 1966
On Reconciliation and Racial Justice in Charleston, South Carolina, Vicki Callahan, University of South California
Chair:
Kieran W. Taylor, The Citadel
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH
When I Was Your Age: Using Oral Histories to Learn about Childhoods & Youth
Roundtable
8:30 to 10:00 am (E.S.T.)
Panelists:
Rachael A. Beyer, University of Delaware
Heidi MacDonald, University of Lethbridge
Joel P. Rhodes, Southeast Missouri State University
Christa Patricia Whitney, Yiddish Book Center
Chair:
Donna Alvah, St. Lawrence University
Influencing Public Discourse & Policy through First-Hand Testimony
Panel
10:30 to 12:00 pm (E.S.T.)
Participants:
Abandoned: Stories from Survivors of Gun Violence, Holly Werner-Thomas, Columbia University
The Texas After Violence Project, Jane Field, Texas After Violence Project
Oral History, Organizing, and Creation of Subjectivity (or, Why Should I Be A Member Anyway), Daniel Horowitz Garcia, Alternative Historian; StoryCorps
Contemporary Student Activism
Paper Session
2:15 to 3:45 pm E.S.T.
Participants:
Days of Resistance: Documenting Black Lives Matter in Higher Education, Cynthia Tobar, Teachers College, Columbia University
Documenting the Silences of the Disenfranchised: Reclaiming the Narratives of Black Female Student Activists, Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, Kent State University Libraries
Within These Walls: The Place of (Be)longing, Anger, and Power in Geography Students’ Strike at Concordia University, Nadia Hausfather, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
Chair:
Leslie McCartney, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH
Oral History and the Structural Violence of Deindustrialization
Panel
9:00 to 10:30 am E.S.T.
Participants:
Talking Violence and Danger in Gentrifying St-Henri, Montréal Fred Burrill, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
Working-Class Erasure: Oral Histories of Displacement in Deindustrialized Spaces, Lachlan MacKinnon, St. Mary’s University
Company Ephemera, Class and Identity, Angie Arsenault, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
Remembering the Unremarkable: Labour Process and Shopfloor Cultures in Female Dominated Factories, Andy Clarke, Newcastle University
Chair:
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
Climate Change
Paper Session
1:45–3:15 p.m. E.S.T.
Participants:
Oral Histories of Environmental Futures: A Project on Climate Change and Energy in Philadelphia, Roger Eardley-Pryor, University of California, Berkeley
Stories from the Ice: Oral History, Global Warming, and Photographing the Land, Kathleen M. Ryan, University of Colorado Boulder
After Activism: Community Environmentalism and the Sydney Tar Ponds Cleanup, 1999-2004, Lachlan MacKinnon, Cape Breton University
Polluted Purifiers: An Oral History of Southeast Louisiana’s Oyster Farmers in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon Environmental Disaster, Joselyn Whitney Takacs, University of Southern California
Chair/Commentator:
Laurie Mercier, Washington State University
