Deadline: May 17, 2024 Interested in hosting an event, caucus/committee business meeting, meet-up, or networking session at the OHA annual conference? Submit your request to the submission form by May 17, 2024. Space is limited, and event approval is at the discretion of OHA’s program committee and executive office. Learn more about this year’s conference […]
Event Dates: July 15-19, 2024 OHA is pleased to announce that the registration portal for our upcoming virtual symposium “AI in OH: How New and Evolving Technologies Will Impact the Profession” is now open! For this online symposium, OHA invited oral history practitioners and scholars from all disciplines whoutilized oral history in their work to
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Deadline May 17, 2024 The Call for Proposals is now closed, EXCEPT for Poster Submissions. The deadline for poster submissions is May 17, 2024, with notifications of applicants being informed of their acceptance or declination in early June. Click here to access the poster submission portal. Poster Submission Guidelines: 1-4 people present a poster that is a visual
Nominations due by June 1, 2024 The Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) annual award is presented every other year (on even years), therefore the next award will be presented at the 2024 OHA Annual Meeting. The award honors individuals and organizations for outstanding achievement in using oral history to create a more humane
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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
November 28 is OHA’s 2023 Day of Giving! This year, funds will go to our new Indigenous Initiative. Our Indigenous Initiative is our commitment to endowing a fund that will promote the success of Indigenous oral historians as well as meaningful, ethical oral history projects within Indigenous communities. Over the next year we will work
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
