OHA Annual Meeting

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.

The Guantánamo Public Memory Project is a multi-year collaborative public history project that seeks to build public awareness of the long history of the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and foster dialogue on its current uses and possible futures for the site. Launched in 2009 from the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

Remembering and Telling the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement The keynote speaker for the Friday lunch at the annual meeting will be Charles E. Cobb, Jr.  Cobb is a prolific author who has worked tirelessly to document and preserve the history of the Black Freedom Movement in America.  From 1962-1967, Cobb served as a

Online registration for the 2015 meeting is now OPEN. Make plans to attend the 2015 annual meeting scheduled for October 14-18 at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel. The annual meeting attracts a broad range of people and features the best work in the field, enabling students and both emerging and established scholars to network and learn

From Baylor University: https://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/news.php?action=story&story=147488 From Bryn Mawr College: https://greenfield.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2014/10/16/gender-and-generations-oral-histories-of-colleges-and-universities-at-oha-2014/ And from the Southern Oral History Project newsletter: Director’s Note Staff, students, and friends of SOHP recently gathered at the 2014 Oral History Association (OHA) annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. I felt all the satisfaction, inspiration, and exhaustion that a great conference brings. OHA is a

Follow the twitter story of this year’s Annual Meeting in Madison: https://storify.com/jaycie_v/oha-2014 And here is another Storify of the meeting: https://storify.com/OralHistForum/oral-history-association-conference-madison-wi-oct

From Oral History in the Mid Atlantic Region: https://ohmar.org/regional-oral-histories-and-strategic-planning-an-oha2014-recap/ From Margo Shea: https://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2014/10/humbling-moments-at-oral-history.html

Thursday, October 9 Session #13: Recovering Endangered Narratives- Session Canceled Session #16: Oral History Recording tours as Visionary Journalism: The SoMove Social Movement Oral History Tour Reportback and Roundtable- Session Canceled Session #18: A Holistic Partnership Approach to Oral Histories with Ethnic Minority Refugees from Burma- Keith Yanner will Chair this session. Session #21: Showcasing

How do I get to and from the airport? There are several ways to get from the airport. The Concourse Hotel does offer a free shuttle. Taxi fare to downtown is between $15 and $20. A Madison Metro Transit bus runs from the airport to downtown every 30 minutes between 6:00 am and 10:30 pm

The Friday morning plenary session will explore the experiences of academics as activists. In several nationally significant political movements in recent years, including major showdowns in Wisconsin and North Carolina, academics have played crucial roles. The panel will feature oral historians who have taken an active role in local, national, and international movements Jacquelyn Dowd

Private Violence, an HBO documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, intimately reveals the stories of two women: Deanna Walters and Kit Gruelle. This feature-length documentary film explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America can be her own home. Every day in