South African Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture addressed the 10th annual Oral History Association of South Africa conference in Kimberley, South Africa. He urged participants to reflect on their freedom and where they come from. Read more about his comments on The New Age Online.
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Remember to sign up for the dine-arounds, where you get out of the hotel, dine at a distinctive Oklahoma City restaurant, and are hosted by a member of the local community. Sign-up is at the registration table.
OHA President Mary Larson appeared on radio station KOSU to talk about the OHA Annual Meeting, happening this week in Oklahoma City. You can listen to the interview on the KOSU website, here.
The OHA annual meeting was recently spotlighted in the Oklahoma Gazette. You can read the piece on their website here.
We are saddened to announce that Trevor Lummis, renown oral historian, passed away in September. His obituary is available from The Telegraph online.
Want to meet new people and network with oral historians from your region? Join Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) for a fun and social happy hour on Friday, October 11, in Oklahoma City. Meet up at the Skirvin Hilton lobby at 5:30pm. Email OHMAR board members Kate Scott (scott.kate@gmail.com) or Abby Perkiss (aperkiss@gmail.com)
As many of you know, in conjunction with the new executive structure, the OHA has been undergoing a strategic planning process to help chart where the organization will be going over the next four years. Toward that end, we have have been working with Janet Rechtman, a strategic planning consultant. Janet is no stranger to
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Want to meet new people and network with oral historians from your region? Join Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) for a fun and social happy hour on Friday, October 11, in Oklahoma City. Meet up at the Skirvin Hilton lobby at 5:30pm. Email OHMAR board members Kate Scott (scott.kate@gmail.com) or Abby Perkiss (aperkiss@gmail.com)
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
