Welcome to the 2015 Oral History Association annual meeting! We are going to have a great week in Tampa. **Please note that the OHA registration desk is on the SECOND floor of the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel outside Florida Salon 4. Online Registration has closed, but you may register in Tampa at the OHA registration desk. […]
In collaboration with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Oral History Association announces a new pamphlet titled Doing Veterans Oral History. The pamphlet, written by OHA member Barbara W. Sommer, will be available to purchase at the Annual Meeting in Tampa and online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Preview the cover at Doing Veterans Oral History.
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Documenting Ferguson: Oral History, Virtual Technologies, and the Making of a Movement The Saturday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting will explore issues of historical recovery posed by the mass protests against state sanctioned violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last August. As national attention turned to this little known city in St.
The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa is quickly approaching. Some things you might be interested in attending are: The International Committee is meeting on Thursday, October 15, 2015, 12:00 – 1:00 PM at the Tampa Marriott Waterside 3, Florida Salon 3. All are welcome so please attend. If you would be interested in
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This is our last blog highlighting abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA Annual Meeting in Tampa by the International Committee Scholarship recipients. Christin Quirk: Panel: Life Stages and Identity Presenting Author on individual submission: Single and Lesbian Mothers: Narratives of Resistance and Change While it is widely accepted that political activism by
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On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a set of recommended revisions to the regulations concerning human subject research. Specifically, it recommended that oral history be explicitly excluded from review by institutional review boards, or IRBs, and alluded to the fact that oral history already has its own code
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The OHA annual meeting will open with a screening of the documentary film TRASH DANCE. In the film, choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin, Texas sanitation workers on
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The 2015 Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund grant was awarded to Groundswell: Oral History in Movements to End Police Brutality, a collaborative oral history partnership between Groundswell and three partner organizations: The Forced Trajectory Project, the Book of Healing, and Freedom Summer 2015. Groundswell is a network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community
Human rights activist and comedian Hari Kondabolu will perform at the Oral History Association annual meeting on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8 pm. Introduced by oral historian Tony Cherian, Hari will remain after the performance for a question and answer session. Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who the NY Times has called “one of the most exciting
Mark Cave and Stephen Sloan, co-editors of Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis, winner of the 2015 Oral History Association book award, recently discussed their book with Oral History Review managing editor Troy Reeves. Both authors will be present at the OHA awards showcase session during the Annual Meeting in
This is our second blog highlighting abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA Annual Meeting in Tampa by International Committee Scholarship recipients. Carol McKirdy, Australia Panel: Stories that Move [with] Us: Oral History in Migration and Diaspora South Sudanese Refugees in Southern Sydney: A Community Oral History Project This project captured history
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Oral historians often work with activist communities that occupy spaces at the boundary of social change. Narrators, many in states of transition, describe their collective struggles for social justice. In the Thursday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting, veteran oral historians explore their experiences working with several such communities. Filmmaker, curator and activist Jim
