OHA 2024 Annual Meeting Registration Now Open!
Registration is now open for the 2024 OHA Annual Meeting to be held October 30 – November 2 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. To learn more about this year’s annual meeting, please click here.
OHA News
Nominate an Outstanding Educator for the Cliff Kuhn Postsecondary Teaching Award!
Deadline: July 1, 2024 Who is that great instructor that inspired or encouraged you to do oral history? The Oral History Association is accepting nominations for the Cliff Kuhn Postsecondary Teaching Award. If you have a teacher, past or present, who has integrated oral history into their teaching, now is the time to shine a
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2024 Call for Events
Deadline: May 17, 2024 Interested in hosting an event, caucus/committee business meeting, meet-up, or networking session at the OHA annual conference? Submit your request to the submission form by May 17, 2024. Space is limited, and event approval is at the discretion of OHA’s program committee and executive office. Learn more about this year’s conference
AI in OH Symposium Registration Portal is Now Open!
Event Dates: July 15-19, 2024 OHA is pleased to announce that the registration portal for our upcoming virtual symposium “AI in OH: How New and Evolving Technologies Will Impact the Profession” is now open! For this online symposium, OHA invited oral history practitioners and scholars from all disciplines whoutilized oral history in their work to
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Call for Posters: 2024 Annual Meeting
Deadline May 17, 2024 The Call for Proposals is now closed, EXCEPT for Poster Submissions. The deadline for poster submissions is May 17, 2024, with notifications of applicants being informed of their acceptance or declination in early June. Click here to access the poster submission portal. Poster Submission Guidelines: 1-4 people present a poster that is a visual
Call for nominations: Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award
Nominations due by June 1, 2024 The Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) annual award is presented every other year (on even years), therefore the next award will be presented at the 2024 OHA Annual Meeting. The award honors individuals and organizations for outstanding achievement in using oral history to create a more humane
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March 2024 Call for Metadata Experts
Experts to be chosen on March 11, 2024 The Metadata Working Group of the Oral History Association’s Archive Caucus is doing a rapid pilot project to create a crosswalk for the OHA Metadata Elements List. If you have expertise in creating either MARC, Dublin Core, or PB Core records for Oral History collections, please contact
Introducing the OHA Conference Aggregator!
OHA is pleased to provide a new resource to help our members connect before and during other regional and national conferences. The OHA Conference Aggregator provides an extensive list of relevant conferences for the coming year, then allows members to share their intentions to attend a particular conference, if they will be presenting, or any other relevant
OHA 2024 Election Call for Nominations
Deadline to Submit: March 30th Dear OHA members, The Oral History Association is led by a group of volunteers who serve as officers, council members, and committee members. We are grateful for the time and service of so many talented individuals. Today, we invite you to help us move the organization forward toward its strategic
OHA’s New Website Design & Directory Tool
From OHA Associate Director Steven Sielaff: The Oral History Association is very pleased to present to its membership and the world at large our brand-new OHA Website! When I considered wider goals for my first year as AD, a modern and responsive design upgrade to our web presence was at the very top of my
Day of Giving 2024
December 3rd is OHA’s 2024 Day of Giving! This year your Day of Giving donation to the OHA can go towards one of two funds: the Indigenous Initiative, which endows a fund that will promote the success of Indigenous oral historians as well as meaningful, ethical oral history projects within Indigenous communities, or the Scholarship
OHR Call for Papers: Oral History and Disability
The Oral History Review is happy to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to Oral History and Disability. It is currently slated for the Spring 2025 issue of the OHR. View the full CFP. Oral historians often write and talk about inclusion, even radical inclusion. What does this mean in practice?
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