OHA Annual Meeting

The Saturday night awards dinner will feature an oral history interview with Richard Davis, who was named a 2014 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that the United States bestows on jazz musicians. Davis is Professor of Bass, Jazz History, and Combo Improvisation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. […]

The opening special session for OHA 2014 will showcase our Madison host site by featuring a staged reading of the innovative documentary theater piece, “Uncivil Disobedience.”  This performance, held in the newly renovated Memorial Union Theater, will highlight oral histories of a thunderous event in the Vietnam-era anti-war movement, the 1970 Sterling Hall bomb explosion

The Sharecroppers’ Troubadour: African American Songs and Oral Poetry as Oral History In the Thursday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting, historian Michael Honey and music educator Pat Krueger will present a mix of oral history analysis, songs, and oral poetry performed by themselves and, through short digital presentations, by John Handcox (1904-1992). Deemed

By Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison Over the next couple of months we will feature comments from recipients of this year’s OHA scholarships as designated by the Oral History Association’s International Committee.  This month we feature comments by: Peili Yin, China (Peking University, China) Paper Title: Review on Mainland China Research of Oral History

Seth Kotch, Digital Projects Director at the Southern Oral History Program, has a blog post on the American Historical Association website. The post highlights several of the digital humanities projects featured at the OHA 2013 Annual Meeting. Read it here.

The Southern Oral History Program at the UNC Center for the Study of the American South has posted an account of their presence at the 2013 Annual Meeting. It is available on their website here. Did you write an article or blog post about your experience at the meeting? Please send it to us! oha@gsu.edu

Amy Cameron Evans, of the Southern Foodways Alliance, has a blog post about her experience at the OHA 2013 Annual Meeting. It can be found here. Did you write an article or blog post about your experience at the meeting? We would love to read it! Send it to us: oha@gsu.edu

We have two overviews of the 2013 meeting that give a flavor of all the great things that happened there. One was done by OHR blogger Steven Sielaff: https://oralhistoryreview.tumblr.com/ And the other was compiled from the various tweets done about the meeting by Jaycie Vos of the University of North Carolina’s Southern Oral History Program:

Remember to sign up for the dine-arounds, where you get out of the hotel, dine at a distinctive Oklahoma City restaurant, and are hosted by a member of the local community.  Sign-up is at the registration table.

OHA President Mary Larson appeared on radio station KOSU to talk about the OHA Annual Meeting, happening this week in Oklahoma City. You can listen to the interview on the KOSU website, here.

The OHA annual meeting was recently spotlighted in the Oklahoma Gazette. You can read the piece on their website here.