By Kristine McCusker Greetings from the co-directors who have spent the past two months representing the Oral History Association at various meetings, professional organizations and conferences nationally and internationally. In April, Louis Kyriakoudes attended the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia where he was able to meet other executive directors. Highlights of the meeting included […]
By Todd Moye The OHA has a lean paid staff. They earn their paychecks many times over, but it’s also true that volunteers do the bulk of the OHA’s work, from planning our annual conference to setting its policies and long-term priorities. I’d like to highlight the work that one of our committees and
Molly Graham Assistant Director Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc. June 2018 My first introduction to oral history was in the form of a 2001 radio story that aired on This American Life. (I feel like a lot of oral historians’ origin story begins this way.) Reporter Carl Marziali was telling the story of
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Check out the OHR’s New Blog Post: “Oral History’s Role in Preserving Palestinian History“ In this week’s post, Rosemarie Esber discusses how oral history has served a vital role in preserving Palestinian voices during the post-1948 period. Here she recounts some of her experiences interviewing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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Check out the Southwest Oral History Association’s (SOHA) Summer 2018 Newsletter!
By Kris McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes The executive office’s transition from Georgia State University to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), in practical terms, is almost complete. We’ve finished the transfer of monies, changed the addresses of the various accounts, have purchased much-needed insurance and have even found the coffee pot. But the transition in
#MeToo and the OHA By Todd Moye OHA Council has been busy over the past few months addressing the issue of sexual harassment in the organization. I wish I could report that we began these discussions proactively, but in reality we were forced into this conversation. In January a new member alleged that another OHA
The OHA 2018 Call for Posters is now available. The submission portal can be found at OHA 2018. The deadline is July 31, 2018, but submissions will be viewed and accepted on a rolling basis.
By Nancy MacKay, Book Review Editor Did you know that the Oral History Review, the journal of the Oral History Association, publishes 30-40 book reviews in every issue? And that each book reviewed first must be identified as relevant to oral history; then read, analyzed and written about by volunteer scholars in the OHA
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John S. Schuchman, the hearing son of deaf parents who was among the pioneers of oral history interviewing with deaf people, died of cancer Dec. 19, 2017. He was 79. Schuchman, a longtime member of the Oral History Association and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), began his academic
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By Jaycie Vos, OHA Publications Committee and Metadata Task Force The Oral History Association Metadata Task Force is charged with improving access and discovery for oral history interviews by helping their creators and caretakers improve the capture and preservation of the interviews’ metadata. The task force saw the need for more structured information to offer
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