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This is our second blog highlighting abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA Annual Meeting in Tampa by International Committee Scholarship recipients. Carol McKirdy, Australia Panel: Stories that Move [with] Us: Oral History in Migration and Diaspora South Sudanese Refugees in Southern Sydney: A Community Oral History Project This project captured history […]

Oral historians often work with activist communities that occupy spaces at the boundary of social change. Narrators, many in states of transition, describe their collective struggles for social justice. In the Thursday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting, veteran oral historians explore their experiences working with several such communities. Filmmaker, curator and activist Jim

The Oral History Association is offering a dynamic array of workshops and tours at the OHA annual meeting in October. Five half-day workshops will take place on Wednesday, October 14, on a wide range of topics. On Saturday morning, October 17, OHA hosts a teacher workshop led by renowned performance artist Judith Sloan for those

OHA is pleased to announce the 2015 Oral History Association award winners. The awards will be presented at the OHA annual meeting in Tampa. Article Award “Squatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History‐Making Practice” Amy Starecheski The Oral History Review, Summer/Fall 2014 Book Award Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the

Over the next three months, abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA annual meeting in Tampa by International Committee scholarship recipients will be featured. Sean Field, South Africa Panel: Listening Compassionately, Mindfully, Empathically, and Cooperatively in Oral History Interviews Presenting Author on individual submission: The Meaning, Practice and Limits of Empathy in

Judith Sloan is an actor, audio artist, writer, radio producer, human rights activist, educator and poet whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. For over twenty years, Sloan has been producing and presenting interdisciplinary works in audio and theater, portraying voices often ignored by the mass media.  Her commentaries, plays, poetry and documentaries

This year the Committee awarded $4,000 to international recipients to attend the 2015 Annual Meeting in Tampa this coming October. The Committee received 11 applications and awards were made to 7 recipients. The awardees are: Dzhanyl Bokontaeva from Kyrgyzstan Sean Field, South Africa Adan King, Canada Carol McKirdy, Australia Jorge Mercado, Puerto Rico Jacky Moore,

From the Southern Oral History Program Blog: Lumbee History Service-Learning Research Projects by Rachel Olsen on May 27, 2015 During the Spring 2015 semester, students in SOHP director Malinda Maynor Lowery’s HIST234: Lumbee History course completed four service-learning research projects in collaboration with partners and mentors on- and off-campus, including SOHP staff. We’re excited to

Read the recent post on the OUP blog about the OHA mentoring program. Consider participating in the mentor program at the Tampa meeting this fall!