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Over the next three months, abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA annual meeting in Tampa by International Committee scholarship recipients will be featured. Sean Field, South Africa Panel: Listening Compassionately, Mindfully, Empathically, and Cooperatively in Oral History Interviews Presenting Author on individual submission: The Meaning, Practice and Limits of Empathy in […]

Judith Sloan is an actor, audio artist, writer, radio producer, human rights activist, educator and poet whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. For over twenty years, Sloan has been producing and presenting interdisciplinary works in audio and theater, portraying voices often ignored by the mass media.  Her commentaries, plays, poetry and documentaries

This year the Committee awarded $4,000 to international recipients to attend the 2015 Annual Meeting in Tampa this coming October. The Committee received 11 applications and awards were made to 7 recipients. The awardees are: Dzhanyl Bokontaeva from Kyrgyzstan Sean Field, South Africa Adan King, Canada Carol McKirdy, Australia Jorge Mercado, Puerto Rico Jacky Moore,

From the Southern Oral History Program Blog: Lumbee History Service-Learning Research Projects by Rachel Olsen on May 27, 2015 During the Spring 2015 semester, students in SOHP director Malinda Maynor Lowery’s HIST234: Lumbee History course completed four service-learning research projects in collaboration with partners and mentors on- and off-campus, including SOHP staff. We’re excited to

Read the recent post on the OUP blog about the OHA mentoring program. Consider participating in the mentor program at the Tampa meeting this fall!

The International Oral History Association (IOHA) and the Oral History Association of India(OHAI) are pleased to be hosting the XIXth International Oral History Conference at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India from 27th June to 1st July 2016. The theme of the conference will be “Speaking, Listening, Interpreting: the critical engagements

Oral History and Vulnerablity by Cliff Mayotte from: https://voiceofwitness.tumblr.com/post/115399857637/oral-history-and-vulnerability Renowned oral historian Alessandro Portelli refers to the optimal interview experience as a “mutual sighting” between interviewer and narrator. Sounds great, doesn’t it? I’d like to have a mutual sighting! Who wouldn’t? As an educator, I especially appreciate this as a necessary (and often challenging) goal between