OHA Annual Meeting

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.

Want to meet new people and network with oral historians from your region? Join Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) for a fun and social happy hour on Friday, October 11, in Oklahoma City. Meet up at the Skirvin Hilton lobby at 5:30pm. Email OHMAR board members Kate Scott (scott.kate@gmail.com) or Abby Perkiss (aperkiss@gmail.com)

As many of you know, in conjunction with the new executive structure, the OHA has been undergoing a strategic planning process to help chart where the organization will be going over the next four years. Toward that end, we have have been working with Janet Rechtman, a strategic planning consultant. Janet is no stranger to