The Oral History Association’s Social Justice Task force would like to welcome OHA members to review and comment on the proposed report as an addition to the current Principles and Best Practices suite of documents. You can read the current draft of the for the proposed documents here: https://oralhistory.org/social-justice-task-force-commission-summary-and-recommendations-report/. Comment period: Members will have the next 25 days to […]
“Moving Stories” 2021 OHA Annual Meeting Virtual Meeting October 9-14, 2021 The Oral History Association values conference participation from community members of diverse experiences and backgrounds. While we offer free registration for conference volunteers, we recognize that not everyone has the capacity to volunteer, so we also offer scholarships. We welcome scholarship applications from anyone
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After the 2021 Annual Meeting, OHA President, Dan Kerr, appointed an Organization Restructuring Taskforce, comprised of Tomás Summers Sandoval (chair); Cynthia Tobar; Allison Tracy-Taylor (until February); and Yolanda Leyva (since April). The Taskforce’s charge was to review the current structure with respect to committees, task forces, and interest groups; review association documents and consult with current
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The 2021 OHA election is open for all OHA members. The deadline to vote is Sept 1. Find the list of candidates (with a bio and personal statement for each) and vote using this form: https://oha.memberclicks.net/2021-election. Members will need to sign in with their membership profile in order to cast a vote. If you have any
By Amy Starecheski, OHA Vice-President Sara Sinclair and Nikki Yeboah, Program Co-Chairs August 2021 Newsletter In October 2021, the Oral History Association will gather for our first-ever PLANNED virtual meeting. Doesn’t it feel nice, at least compared to 2020, to be able to make plans in advance? Kind of? While we will miss many things
By Dan Kerr August 2021 Newsletter As we near the end of August, the OHA Executive Office, the program committee for the annual conference, the Council and our standing committees and taskforces are very busy completing work as we near our annual meeting, “Moving Stories,” this October. As I near the end of my
This year’s Annual Day of Giving will go toward helping OHA’s endowment reach $1 million. The endowment helps pay for scholarships to the Annual Meeting; helps us stage webinars and other professional outreach and education; allows us to support other oral history organizations like the International Oral History Association; helps support new initiatives like strategic
June 2022 Convened by the Ad Hoc Group for Transformative Oral History Practice* in collaboration with the Oral History Association and the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley It has been just over one year since a White police officer murdered George Floyd, sparking the largest call for racial justice in this country in a
Registration for the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting is now open. The conference will take place October 9-14. 2021 Conference Fees: OHA Member with Institutional Support…$75 OHA Member Independent Scholar … $50 OHA Student Member… $40 Non-member… $120 Non-member Student… $50 The complete program is available here (All times are listed in Eastern Time). For a refresher of what
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***All times listed on the PDF of the Preliminary Schedule are in the Eastern Time Zone. *** Pheedloop For this year’s annual meeting we are using a virtual event platform called Pheedloop. Pheedloop will work similarly to the platform we used last year in that it will be the gateway to accessing all the conference
The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking a host institution and/or executive director beginning January 1, 2023. Since it’s founding, the OHA was run by an Executive Secretary, but the organization decided to go to an Executive Office model in 2011. The first Executive
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By Nishani Frazier and Nikki Pombier, Nominating Committee Co-Chairs Some of the members of the Nominating Committee are relatively new to OHA, although they are not new to oral history. As new members, we embraced different strategies for enhancing the OHA structure, in part because we were not informed by or obligated to older models.
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