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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

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

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

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

The Oral History Association is offering a dynamic array of workshops and tours at the OHA annual meeting in October. Five half-day workshops will take place on Wednesday, October 14, on a wide range of topics. On Saturday morning, October 17, OHA hosts a teacher workshop led by renowned performance artist Judith Sloan for those

OHA is pleased to announce the 2015 Oral History Association award winners. The awards will be presented at the OHA annual meeting in Tampa. Article Award “Squatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History‐Making Practice” Amy Starecheski The Oral History Review, Summer/Fall 2014 Book Award Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the

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