Submissions open for 2015 Annual Meeting
The submission deadline for the OHA annual meeting was January 12, 2015. If you have questions about submitting a proposal, please contact the OHA office.
The submission deadline for the OHA annual meeting was January 12, 2015. If you have questions about submitting a proposal, please contact the OHA office.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is sharing its collection of oral histories from genocide survivors, and human rights defenders. For more information go to: https://www.businessinsider.com/afp-canadas-new-human-rights-museum-shares-oral-histories-2014-11
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Middle Tennessee State University, located 30 miles southeast of Nashville, offers oral history as a concentration in the Public History Program. MTSU was in the first wave of American universities to embrace the study of public history, initiating an M.A. concentration in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Public History in 2005. Today, the graduate program
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year ten applications were reviewed. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. The following six participants were granted scholarships: Tetiana Borka
From North Carolina Public Radio: Founder of UNC Southern Oral History Program Reflects on Four Decades of Work By LAURA LEE & FRANK STASIO When Jacquelyn Dowd Hall started the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40 years ago, documenting the lives of ordinary people was not part
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The 2014 Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund grant was awarded to Luke Eric Lassiter’s project “Oral Histories of the Charleston West Virginia Chemical Spill.” Affecting the drinking water of over 300,000 people in nine counties, the January 2014 chemical spill in the Elk River was dubbed by the New York Times as “one of
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From Baylor University: https://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/news.php?action=story&story=147488 From Bryn Mawr College: https://greenfield.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2014/10/16/gender-and-generations-oral-histories-of-colleges-and-universities-at-oha-2014/ And from the Southern Oral History Project newsletter: Director’s Note Staff, students, and friends of SOHP recently gathered at the 2014 Oral History Association (OHA) annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. I felt all the satisfaction, inspiration, and exhaustion that a great conference brings. OHA is a
Follow the twitter story of this year’s Annual Meeting in Madison: https://storify.com/jaycie_v/oha-2014 And here is another Storify of the meeting: https://storify.com/OralHistForum/oral-history-association-conference-madison-wi-oct
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From Oral History in the Mid Atlantic Region: https://ohmar.org/regional-oral-histories-and-strategic-planning-an-oha2014-recap/ From Margo Shea: https://www.theflickeringlamp.org/2014/10/humbling-moments-at-oral-history.html
Thursday, October 9 Session #13: Recovering Endangered Narratives- Session Canceled Session #16: Oral History Recording tours as Visionary Journalism: The SoMove Social Movement Oral History Tour Reportback and Roundtable- Session Canceled Session #18: A Holistic Partnership Approach to Oral Histories with Ethnic Minority Refugees from Burma- Keith Yanner will Chair this session. Session #21: Showcasing
The Teacher Workshops on Saturday morning have been moved from the Madison Public Library to the Madison Concourse Hotel in Capitol Ballroom B.
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the upcoming OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year ten applications were reviewed. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. The following six participants were granted scholarships: Tetiana