The OHA offers a variety of workshops and webinars throughout the year, as well as opportunities for members to view past offerings through the membership portal.
Upcoming OHA Workshops and Webinars
Lunch & Learn: Oral History as a Teaching Tool
Tuesday, July 29
11:30 am CDT
on Zoom
Join our virtual roundtable conversation on teaching oral history! Get practical advice from teachers who have experimented with bringing oral history into their classrooms. We’ll discuss a range of options, from having students analyze an existing oral history interview to creating opportunities for students to conduct their own interviews. Our goal is for participants to leave the conversation with a clearer sense of the logistical considerations, challenges, and opportunities that oral history-infused courses offer.
Oral History & The Law Webinar #2: Indigenous Protocols and Perspectives On Oral History, Ethics, and the Legal Field
Wednesday, August 13
1 – 3:30 pm EDT
on Zoom
Join our next Oral History & The Law workshop! Dr. Trevor Reed (Irvine School of Law, UC-Irvine) and Francine Spang-Willis will discuss issues of emergent concern to Indigenous communities in the realms of federal law, community cultural protocols, and the ethics of collecting intangible cultural heritage and traditional cultural expressions, including oral histories.
Recent OHA Webinar Recordings – Members Only (2024-Now)
Access to past OHA webinar recordings is available to current OHA members. Please consider joining OHA so that you can receive this membership benefit.
The AI in OH Symposium session recordings will be added to this list on January 1, 2025.
Free NEH Webinar Recordings (2021-2023)
Through a grant received through the National Endowment for the Humanities, from 2021-2023 the OHA conducted a series of nine free webinars for the public. More information and access to the webinar recordings is available on OHA’s NEH Grant page.
Past Webinar List (2017-2021)
- Oral History & IRB Review | Oral History & The Law Webinar #1 — presented by Jay-Marie Bravent & moderated by Doug Boyd (June 24, 2025)
- Register here and email oha@oralhistory.org for the recording.
- Sharing Authority: The Oral History Review Special Issue on Ethics — presented by Abigail Perkiss, Jannken Smucker, and David Caruso (November 16, 2021)
- Protect the Value of Your Labor: Survival Freelancing Skills in Oral History — presented by Liz Strong (January 28, 2021)
- Fieldwork and Digital Audio Technology: What to Know Before you Go! — presented by John Fenn and Andy Kolovos (May 1, 2020)
- Oral History at a Distance: Conducting Remote Interviews, sponsored by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History and the Oral History Association (March 31, 2020)
- Finding Common Ground at the Intersection of Cultural Sustainability and Oral History — presented by Amy Skillman and Linda Shopes (December 11, 2019)
- Radio Storytelling — presented by Molly Graham (June 27, 2019)
- Documenting Your Community: Planning Skills for Oral History Projects, OHA’s first webinar — presented by Mary Larson and Jeff Corrigan (November 3, 2017)
- The webinar recording is unfortunately no longer available.