OHA News

post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison The Oral History Association’s annual meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from October 8-12, 2014. Each year the International Committee offers scholarships to international presenters for the annual meeting. We encourage applications from a diverse population of people who might contribute to the association’s annual meeting.  We […]

Post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison This year, the International Oral History Association’s 18th Conference will be held in Barcelona Spain on July 9-12, 2014.  The conference theme is ‘Power and Democracy:  the many voices of Oral History’. From the IOHA website: The force of democracy as well as the resistance it has met

Post by Rachel F. Seidman, Associate Director, Southern Oral History Program In March of last year, Lisa Nagel, Head of St. Anne’s School in Annapolis, Maryland, invited Felice Belman, then Editor in Chief of the Concord Monitor newspaper, and me to lead a workshop on interviewing, historical research and oral history.  The eighth grade students at this

Oral History, Living History – Oral History Workshop Presented by The Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill Southern Oral History Program Workshop presenters: Malinda Maynor Lowery, Director; Rachel F. Seidman, Associate Director; Seth Kotch, Digital Humanities Coordinator. Thursday April 10, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Cost: $10.00 Limit: 40 Sponsored by: OAH Committee on Public History and

By Katie Kuszmar  I teach at a high school in San Jose, and we recently had the opportunity to meet Father Greg Boyle, who started Homeboy Industries in East Los Angeles. Homeboy Industries is a very successful intervention and rehabilitation program for “homies” who want out of gangs. We read Boyle’s bestselling memoir, Tattoos on

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2014 OHA Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, held October 8-12. All proposals must be submitted through the conference software:  https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/oha/oha14/. View the 2014 Call for Papers for more information.

By Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison Over the next couple of months we will feature comments from recipients of this year’s OHA scholarships as designated by the Oral History Association’s International Committee. This month we feature comments by: Marica Šapro-Ficović, PhD. (Public Library Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia) Paper Title: Oral History Shows Vibrant Life in