Fall. Besides autumn leaves and season change it is considered a time for new found ideas and shared experiences. And of course, a new school year across ages and institutions. Education. I’ve been thinking a lot about its meaning and what Oral History in Education means to the Oral History Association and its members. If […]
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The British Library has unveiled the first 355 “Listening Project” conversations, available at https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/The-Listening-Project From their website – “The Listening Project is an audio archive of conversations recorded by the BBC. People are invited to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative, to be recorded and broadcast (in edited form) by the BBC
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The public presentation by Ed Linenthal on Friday, October 11 at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is still on, despite the government shutdown. According to the Memorial’s website, “The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum is open for business despite the government shutdown. The Memorial and Museum was built and is owned and
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A key benefit of attending the annual meeting of the OHA is the opportunity to interact with oral historians working in similar settings or with related concerns . At the suggestion of many of those who responded to the OHA’s 2013 survey about the annual meeting, we have built interest group meetings into the structure
INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION / IOHA XVIIIth International Conference “Power and Democracy: The Many Voices of Oral History” 9th – 12th July 2014 Barcelona – Spain For each international conference the IOHA is able to provide small grants for a limited number of participants. The IOHA Conference/Master Class Scholarship Fund aims to bring together international
Many of the 2013 Annual Meeting presenters have provided abstracts for their papers and panels. Please take the time to peruse the list as the meeting rapidly approaches. Download Abstracts
Rosalie Riegle, winner of the Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award will be talking and signing books at the Joy Mennonite Church, 504 NE 16th Street, Oklahoma City on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7pm. The event is hosted by the Oklahoma Center for Conscience.
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Larry Goodwyn, co-founder of the Duke oral history program, has passed away. His obituary is available from the Duke University newspaper.
The mission of the Summersell Center is “to investigate and promote understanding of the history and culture of the American South through research and public programming.” The center has paired up with the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to bring awareness to preserving oral history. UNC’s program dedicates itself
As we move toward the annual meeting in Oklahoma City, it’s incumbent that we fruitfully employ social media to maximize the impact of the meeting, and by extension OHA itself. Accordingly we are encouraging OHA members, H-Oralhist subscribers, and conference attendees to do the following: 1) Like us on Facebook. Only a minority of the
In addition to the regularly scheduled book signing, scheduled for Friday, October 11 from 3:15-3:45 in the meeting exhibit hall, the Oklahoma University Press will be sponsoring a special signing. Stephen Fagin, author of Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, will be signing copies of his book at
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The Southern Foodways Alliance will be represented in one of the OHA 2013 Annual Meeting plenary sessions. Below is their announcement celebrating the oral history archives at the SFA. Welcome to the SFA’s first-ever Oral History Week. Did you know: We’ve had an online oral history archive since the inception of our oral history
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