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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The virtual poster session will provide an opportunity for informal, interactive presentations and discussions. This is a forum for exchanging innovative ideas, and for useful feedback and discussion on your work. Submission requirements: Proposals should include a title and a description of how the poster or project relates to the theme. Abstracts can be up
The OHA’s 2021 award cycle is open and nominations are due July 1. This year we are offering the following awards: Article Award Mason Multi-Media Awards Book Award Martha Ross Teaching Award Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Annual Award All open committee spots have been filled, and so make sure to get
By Kristine McCusker April 2021 Curated highlights from the 2020 Oral History Association conference are now available on the organization’s website. This was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities CARES Act grant that allowed us to host our conference virtually. Thanks to Faith Bagley and Anna Kaplan for
By Dan Kerr April 2021 The Oral History Association is committed to following through on our core values, and I would like to focus on two of them (see our Strategic Plan for the other three): Sustainability. We steward our field and organization to ensure that our work is valued and accessible. Transparency.
March 22, 2021 In light of the recent violent attacks against the Asian American community, the OHA has done several things to support our friends and neighbors. We have signed onto a statement with fellow professional societies affiliated with the American Council of Learned Societies, decrying the violence. The Council has also gathered together resources
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