By Kristine McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes This will be a different conference! Conference planning is in full swing, with program associate Faith Bagley, doctoral student Jordan Alexander and both co-directors working hard to make sure #OHA2018 in Montreal is the best conference yet. Steven High, the folks at the Centre for Oral History and Digital […]
By Todd Moye Promoting ethical principles and best practices for oral history is the most important public service the OHA performs. If anything, it’s more important now than it has ever been, with the federal government having recently redefined “generalizable knowledge” in a way that exempts oral history from Institutional Review Board review. Many
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All spots have been filled. Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council recently approved a grant to support various new features of our October conference, including simultaneous interpretation (Spanish and French to English), live-streaming, and (for the first time) a FREE professional daycare service for up to 10 children ages 1 to 12. The daycare
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By Kristine McCusker Greetings from the co-directors who have spent the past two months representing the Oral History Association at various meetings, professional organizations and conferences nationally and internationally. In April, Louis Kyriakoudes attended the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia where he was able to meet other executive directors. Highlights of the meeting included
By Todd Moye The OHA has a lean paid staff. They earn their paychecks many times over, but it’s also true that volunteers do the bulk of the OHA’s work, from planning our annual conference to setting its policies and long-term priorities. I’d like to highlight the work that one of our committees and
Molly Graham Assistant Director Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc. June 2018 My first introduction to oral history was in the form of a 2001 radio story that aired on This American Life. (I feel like a lot of oral historians’ origin story begins this way.) Reporter Carl Marziali was telling the story of
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Check out the OHR’s New Blog Post: “Oral History’s Role in Preserving Palestinian History“ In this week’s post, Rosemarie Esber discusses how oral history has served a vital role in preserving Palestinian voices during the post-1948 period. Here she recounts some of her experiences interviewing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
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Check out the Southwest Oral History Association’s (SOHA) Summer 2018 Newsletter!
By Kris McCusker and Louis Kyriakoudes The executive office’s transition from Georgia State University to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), in practical terms, is almost complete. We’ve finished the transfer of monies, changed the addresses of the various accounts, have purchased much-needed insurance and have even found the coffee pot. But the transition in
#MeToo and the OHA By Todd Moye OHA Council has been busy over the past few months addressing the issue of sexual harassment in the organization. I wish I could report that we began these discussions proactively, but in reality we were forced into this conversation. In January a new member alleged that another OHA
