Events
2020 Annual Meeting Registration is Now Open
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,
Summer Workshop Series on Anti-Oppression and Oral History
The Oral History Association is proud to partner with the Columbia Oral History Master of Arts Program to present a summer workshop series on Anti-Oppression and Oral History. This series will consist of five virtual workshops: an introduction to an anti-oppression approach to oral history work, and four follow up workshops exploring project design, interviewing, and
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#OHA2019 Paper Submission Portal Deadline has been Extended
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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OHA Annual Meeting Live-Streaming of Sessions on Facebook Page
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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Oral History & Podcasting/Radio Storytelling
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
Annual Meeting Spotlight: Documenting Ferguson
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.
Annual Meeting Plenary: The Guantánamo Public Memory Project
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
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Annual Meeting Spotlight: Keynote Speaker Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
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
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Register now for the 2015 annual meeting in Tampa
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
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Recaps of the Annual Meeting from Attendees
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
2014 Oral History Association Annual Meeting Storify
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
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