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The Oral History Association has established a new annual scholarship to honor the legacy of Clifford Kuhn, OHA’s first Executive Director and a history professor at Georgia State University who passed away unexpectedly in November of 2015. The scholarship is for participation at the OHA annual conference, and will be awarded for the first time […]

  The XX IOHA Congress: “Memory and Narration”, University of Jyväskylä, June 18-20, 2018 Welcome to IOHA Finland!   The Finnish Oral History Network (FOHN), University of Jyväskylä and the Finnish Literature Society (SKS) cordially propose to host the XX International Oral History Congress at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, from 18th June to 21th

The Oral History Association today joins more than 100 historical organizations around the country to endorse the History Relevance Value Statement and declare the importance of teaching and learning history. To celebrate, OHA is urging history fans to post a selfie of them enjoying their favorite historical spot, and use the hashtag #HistoryRelevance. The Value

Welcome back to our blog series! Our OHA blogger this week is Jason Higgins, who says that he was “drawn to oral history by my appreciation for story-telling and the shared experiences that form what we call the human condition. Oral history speaks to my natural curiosity in the stories and memories of ordinary people

by Michael Kilburn, Vice-Chair OHA International Committee On Feb 15-16, the Czech Oral History Association held its annual conference, this year entitled, “The Many Faces of Oral History: From Theory and Education to Research, Education, and Popularization” at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia (Czech Republic). There were indeed many faces represented, including a variety of disciplines

by COHA President, Pavel Mücke The 5th Conference of the Czech Oral History Association (COHA), hosted by Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (under auspice of Dean, prof. Milan Pohl) and the Moravian Museum was held in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic, between February 15 and 16, 2017. In more than forty papers, presented in three parallel

The Oral History Association announces a grant of up to $4,000 to undertake oral history research in situations of crisis research in the United States and internationally. These funds may be applied to travel, per diem, or transcription costs for research in places and situations in which a longer application time schedule may be problematic.

  Welcome to what we hope is one of many upcoming blogs! Our goal at the OHA Blog is to provide more member-driven content in order to create a space that allows for the expression of ideas and initiatives in oral history and to showcase our members. For our first blog, Monica Sun writes about

The Oral History Association invites nominations for its 2017 Annual Awards. In 1993, the Oral History Association established a series of awards to recognize outstanding achievement in oral history. The awards include: Doug Boyd presents the 2016 Elizabeth B. Mason award, small project, to Roger Gatchet Article Award  The purpose of the OHA Article Award is

The Oral History Association strongly denounces the recent executive order imposing a travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, and temporarily suspending refugee admissions. As an organization, we reaffirm our fundamental values of respect, empowerment, diversity, dialogue, engagement, inclusion, and the free exchange of ideas, all of which the travel ban makes more difficult. We reject

  OHA International Committee Vice-Chair Michael Kilburn will be attending the Czech Oral History Association (https://www.coha.cz/) in Brno February15/16, 2017. He will be giving a report from the road so watch this space. As well, Michael will also be writing a review of ‘Velvet Revolutions. An Oral History of Czech Society’ by Miroslav Vaněk and

News broke last Thursday morning that the Trump Administration is considering the elimination of NEH, along with other cultural agencies! It is important to remember that we have built considerable support in Congress over the past years and we can fight this proposal. It is time to take action and make clear to the President