Rina Benmayor was awarded a $10,000 Cal Humanities grant to construct a web-based and on-site oral history walking tour of Salinas Chinatown, drawing from more than 100 interviews that she and her oral history students have conducted with members of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Latino communities. Read more from The Californian.
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Friday Night: Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum Ed Linenthal, one of the leading historians of American historical memory and memorialization, is the featured speaker at our Friday evening special event. The museum and memorial site will remain open after hours so that OHA attendees may tour the site before and after Linenthal’s presentation.
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the upcoming OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year seven participants were granted scholarships. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. Over the next few weeks we will
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Plenary Session Cross-Cultural Studies THURSDAY PLENARY, October 10 – 3:15-4:45PM “Maori tribal justice, Cherokee language preservation, and Athabascan culture in the schools: three cross-cultural studies in oral history” Moderator: William Schneider, Professor Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks In this session, three speakers representing three different cultural traditions share with us how they use oral history
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Liu Dong has become a part-time oral historian, collecting stories from the soldiers of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) – or National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era (1912-1949) – who fought in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945). The experience, he said, “has thoroughly changed my perceptions about Chinese history.” Liu said his
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The Center for the Study of the American South proudly announces Malinda Maynor Lowery as the new director of the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her appointment began on July 1, 2013. Lowery will serve as the second permanent director of the SOHP, which was founded in 1973 to preserve the voices
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Post by Allison K. Tracy When we think about education and oral history, training volunteers for community-based oral history projects perhaps receive less attention than more traditional pedagogical efforts in oral history. It is, however, an important and vital part of the work we do to foster the use of oral history and to provide
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The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer system is highlighted in the Lexington Herald-Leader. The system, pioneered by Doug Boyd, allows interviews to be tagged with keywords for easy searching and access. Read more about it on the Lexington Herald-Leader website.
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Project Jukebox, part of the oral history program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has received a grant from the North Pacific Research Board to create a new multimedia segment, “Sea Ice in Barrow.” The $61,205 grant will allow staff from UAF’s Elmer E. Rasmuson Library to record interviews in the Barrow area, and to
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The Society of American Archivists is seeking nominations for Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Steering Committee for the Oral History Section. Additional information is available on the SAA website.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6:00-8:30PM OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER The Presidential Reception will take place at the stunning new Oklahoma History Center. An architectural masterpiece, the Oklahoma History Center is an 18-acre, 215,000 square-foot learning center exploring Oklahoma’s history, culture, and heritage. The reception will be held in the soaring 80-ft glass atrium with a
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Information on keynote speakers, plenary sessions, special events, and a complete session listing are now posted. Registration for the Oral History Association 2013 Annual Meeting “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History” is also available online. See the Annual Meeting page for details.
