By Amy Starecheski, OHA Vice-President Sara Sinclair and Nikki Yeboah, Program Co-Chairs August 2021 Newsletter In October 2021, the Oral History Association will gather for our first-ever PLANNED virtual meeting. Doesn’t it feel nice, at least compared to 2020, to be able to make plans in advance? Kind of? While we will miss many things […]
Registration for the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting is now open. The conference will take place October 9-14. 2021 Conference Fees: OHA Member with Institutional Support…$75 OHA Member Independent Scholar … $50 OHA Student Member… $40 Non-member… $120 Non-member Student… $50 The complete program is available here (All times are listed in Eastern Time). For a refresher of what
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***All times listed on the PDF of the Preliminary Schedule are in the Eastern Time Zone. *** Pheedloop For this year’s annual meeting we are using a virtual event platform called Pheedloop. Pheedloop will work similarly to the platform we used last year in that it will be the gateway to accessing all the conference
The virtual poster session will provide an opportunity for informal, interactive presentations and discussions. This is a forum for exchanging innovative ideas, and for useful feedback and discussion on your work. Submission requirements: Proposals should include a title and a description of how the poster or project relates to the theme. Abstracts can be up
“Moving Stories” October 2021 (Exact Dates To Be Determined) The OHA’s Call for Proposals for the 2021 Annual Meeting is now closed. We are writing to announce that the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association will be virtual. Of course we mourn the opportunity to meet in person as a large group, to
We are already hard at work (and having fun!) planning the 2021 Annual Meeting. We expect that the submission portal will open by February 1 and we will have a March 1 application deadline. In the meantime, everything you need to know to develop your proposals, including a bunch of exciting new session formats, should
Online registration is now available for the 2020 Annual Meeting. You will need to use your Memberclicks account in order to register. If you don’t have an account, you will need to create one. ***Please make sure to select a type of registration on the form (i.e Member with Institutional Support, Member without Institutional Support,
The submission portal for the 2019 Annual Meeting is now open. The deadline for submissions has been extended to February 15, 2019. Please note that you will need to create a new account in order to submit a proposal, even if you have submitted proposals in the past. The Call for Papers is available here,
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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.
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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
Documenting Ferguson: Oral History, Virtual Technologies, and the Making of a Movement The Saturday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting will explore issues of historical recovery posed by the mass protests against state sanctioned violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last August. As national attention turned to this little known city in St.
