Events

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

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)

The public presentation by Ed Linenthal on Friday, October 11 at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is still on, despite the government shutdown. According to the Memorial’s website, “The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum is open for business despite the government shutdown. The Memorial and Museum was built and is owned and

A key benefit of attending the annual meeting of the OHA is the opportunity to interact with oral historians working in similar settings or with related concerns . At the suggestion of many of those who responded to the OHA’s 2013 survey about the annual meeting, we have built interest group meetings into the structure

Many of the 2013 Annual Meeting presenters have provided abstracts for their papers and panels. Please take the time to peruse the list as the meeting rapidly approaches. Download Abstracts

Rosalie Riegle, winner of the Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award will be talking and signing books at the Joy Mennonite Church, 504 NE 16th Street, Oklahoma City on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7pm. The event is hosted by the Oklahoma Center for Conscience.