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 […]
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
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
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
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
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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The Oral History Association (OHA) seeks to hire a full-time program associate to assist in the operation of its Executive Office. Since 1966, the OHA has served as the principal membership organization for people committed to the value of oral history. Job tasks assigned to the program associate include assisting in planning the annual meeting,
Work is underway on a new OHA website! As part of the redesign, we would love to integrate photos from our members! We ask for photos featuring: OHA annual meetings, other OHA events, OHA members, and/or oral history work. You can use this form to upload 10 photos at a time. Thanks in advance for
Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has pervaded our shared discourse and lexicon. Myriad organizations and sectors are at once hurriedly embracing and cautiously considering the impacts large language models and complex algorithms might have on their industries. Oral history is not immune to
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With many thanks to all that ran and voted in our 2023 election, the OHA is pleased to announce our newest elected leaders.
OHA is pleased to announce the first two members of the 2024-26 editorial team for its journal, Oral History Review: Holly Werner-Thomas as editor, and Robert LaRose as copy editor. Holly and Robert bring impressive experience and expertise to lead the next era of this leading oral history research journal published for OHA by Routledge/Taylor
TIME to VOTE, OHA! As OHA members, it’s up to you to elect a new OHA first vice president (who advances to president), a new representative to the OHA Council (our leadership body), and new representatives to two of our OHA committees: the Nominating Committee and Committee on Committees. Learn about the candidates and vote
