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Call for Chapter Contributors: History: Loss, Time, and Embodiment

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CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTORS Loss, Time, and Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Understanding and Reconciliation Mitchel Stimers, PhD & Luma Mahairi, PhD, PharmD, Editors We are seeking a contributor for the following chapter in our forthcoming two-volume interdisciplinary collection: Volume I: Humanities and Social Sciences: Chapter 2: History: Erasure, Memory Wars, and Historical Grief This collection is […]

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Managing Digital Oral History in the Archive Webinar Hosted by the New england Archivists

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Thursday, June 25, 2026  1:00-2:30pm ET Register here This 90-minute webinar, led by Douglas A. Boyd, explores the distinctive challenges and opportunities of working with digital oral history collections. Drawing on decades of experience at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the University of Kentucky Libraries, Boyd will provide a concise but

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Lunch & Learn: Densho’s Oral History Program in the Post-Witness Era

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Monday, June 16th, 2026, 12pm PT Join Densho for a virtual Lunch & Learn program on Monday, June 16, 12-1pm PT exploring our oral history program and ongoing work. Densho’s oral history program has always evolved in response to the Japanese American community and its needs. This virtual event explores what our work looks like as

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A blue flyer for an event titled Finding My People: An Introduction to Oral History Association Caucuses on June 4, 2026, 2–3 PM CST, with event details, a registration link, and speaker names and affiliations.

Finding My People: An Introduction to Oral History Association Caucuses

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June 4, 2-3PM CST Interested in connecting more deeply within the oral history field? Join us for an upcoming conversation on Oral History Association caucuses and learn how caucuses can help you build community, strengthen networks, and deepen your work in oral history. This session will explore the many ways oral historians engage through caucuses

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Author Interview: Eleanor Paynter

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In her spring 2026 OHR article, “Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy,” Eleanor Paynter, who is assistant professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies in the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon, brings to light her

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Maine media: Oral History 101: Method, Craft & Uses

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Dates: July 27, 2026  –  July 31, 2026 Levels: Beginner, IntermediateWorkshop Fee: $1695Workshop Duration: 1-week (Monday-Friday)Workshop Location: On-campusClass Size: 12 History, as most of us are taught in school, has long been written by, and for, the powerful, and historical archives are often considered fixed bases for “fact.” Oral history turns these notions on their heads. In this course, we’ll embark on

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Oral History Project Focus: The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive

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What is your project about and why does it matter? I am the project lead and creative director of The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive. I established the Fieldwork Archive as a web-based repository in August 2022 to preserve diverse representations of folklife via sound recordings I and other fieldworkers have made: ballads, hymns, tales, poems,

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Archivist, American Folklife Center of Library of Congress

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Summary This position is located in the American Folklife Center, Special Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collection Services in the Library Collections and Services Group. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. The position description number for this position is 446809. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.

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Call for Proposals for the 2026 Dr. Tareq A. Ramadan Research Grant

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Deadline: June 30, 2026 The Arab American National Museum is currently accepting applications for a research travel grant to facilitate access to the Museum Collection and/or the Russell J. Ebeid Library Resource Center. The grant is made possible through the support of Dr. Tareq A. Ramadan, an anthropologist, historic preservationist, and interdisciplinary adjunct professor of

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