A memorial service for OHA Executive Director Cliff Kuhn will be held in Atlanta on Sunday, December 13. The service will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Speaker’s Auditorium at the Georgia State University Student Center, 55 Gilmer Street, Atlanta, GA 30303. The Student Center is at the intersection of Gilmer Street and Courtland Avenue. […]
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It is with great sadness I submit this monthly blog. The passing of Cliff Kuhn, the OHA Executive Director, is such a great loss and my sympathies go out to his family, friends and colleagues. The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa was excellent this year due to the efforts of Cliff and Gayle
We invite you to share your favorite stories and memories of OHA Executive Director, Cliff Kuhn.
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We are very sorry to have to share with you the news that our friend and OHA Executive Director Cliff Kuhn passed away on Sunday in Atlanta, surrounded as he usually was by loved ones. Surely we do not have to tell you what a loss this is–not just to his family and to us
The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa was excellent. I want to thank all who came to the International Committee meeting and thank our international scholarship recipients for their terrific papers. Here at the comments of two of the international scholarship recipients: My first experience at the OHA Annual Conference was fantastic. There were
Welcome to the 2015 Oral History Association annual meeting! We are going to have a great week in Tampa. **Please note that the OHA registration desk is on the SECOND floor of the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel outside Florida Salon 4. Online Registration has closed, but you may register in Tampa at the OHA registration desk.
In collaboration with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, the Oral History Association announces a new pamphlet titled Doing Veterans Oral History. The pamphlet, written by OHA member Barbara W. Sommer, will be available to purchase at the Annual Meeting in Tampa and online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Preview the cover at Doing Veterans Oral History.
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Documenting Ferguson: Oral History, Virtual Technologies, and the Making of a Movement The Saturday plenary session at the OHA annual meeting will explore issues of historical recovery posed by the mass protests against state sanctioned violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last August. As national attention turned to this little known city in St.
The Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting in Tampa is quickly approaching. Some things you might be interested in attending are: The International Committee is meeting on Thursday, October 15, 2015, 12:00 – 1:00 PM at the Tampa Marriott Waterside 3, Florida Salon 3. All are welcome so please attend. If you would be interested in
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This is our last blog highlighting abstracts of papers to be given at this year’s OHA Annual Meeting in Tampa by the International Committee Scholarship recipients. Christin Quirk: Panel: Life Stages and Identity Presenting Author on individual submission: Single and Lesbian Mothers: Narratives of Resistance and Change While it is widely accepted that political activism by
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On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a set of recommended revisions to the regulations concerning human subject research. Specifically, it recommended that oral history be explicitly excluded from review by institutional review boards, or IRBs, and alluded to the fact that oral history already has its own code
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The OHA annual meeting will open with a screening of the documentary film TRASH DANCE. In the film, choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin, Texas sanitation workers on
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