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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) for details.
See you in Oklahoma City!
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 I asked five members if they could share their understanding of Oral History in Education, I would get a different answer from each. As Chair of the Education Committee for OHA, I grapple with this question and I wonder if the Education Committee is meeting the members’ needs. The Committee is made up of a diverse group of people working in varied institutions with K-12 students, adult students, and community members with oral history at the core of their teaching and learning. Our views and expertise are mixed and expansive but we have found commonalities through our conversations.
A discussion we keep circling around is how oral history as a tool is used in the public education realm. We would like to invite you to be part of the dialogue. If you are attending the annual meeting in Oklahoma City this year, join us on Friday, October 11 at 8:30 am in the Continental Room for a Roundtable discussion on The Transformational Power of Oral History to Invigorate Public Education.
If you can’t make the session but would like to become involved with the Education Committee, please feel free to join us for our meeting on Thursday, October 10 at 12:15 in Centennial 2. (Check the program guide for any room changes.)
Debbie Ardemendo
Education Manager- School Programs
Apollo Theater
253 West 125th Street
New York, New York 10027
Direct: 212.531.5343
Fax: 212.749.2743
http://www.apollotheater.org
The British Library has unveiled the first 355 “Listening Project” conversations, available at http://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 and curated and archived in full by the British Library. These one-to-one conversations, lasting up to an hour and taking a topic of the speakers’ choice, collectively form a picture of our lives and relationships today.”
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 operated by a private non-profit 501(c)3 foundation. This national treasure depends solely on admissions, Museum Store sales, the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, other private fund-raising efforts and earnings from an endowment to cover annual operational cost. The Foundation receives no annual operating monies from the city, state or federal governments.”
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 of the 2013 meeting. On Thursday afternoon, October 10, eight separate groups will meet to discuss common interests, problems, and solutions. Conference goers will split up into various interest groups to discuss common concerns and plan for the future.
Groups will include:
• Community oral history
• Independent scholars
• K-12 education
• Military history
• Oral history and archives
• Oral history and digital humanities
• Oral history and social change
• Oral history in government
Interest groups will play a vital role as the OHA moves into the future with a new executive structure and a new multi-year strategic plan. Among other activities, interest groups could develop panels for the annual meeting (and at meetings of other organizations); publicize the various OHA awards. grants and scholarships; contribute submissions to the Oral History Review, newsletter, and the news and calendar sections of the website; suggest candidates to the Nominating Committee; provide a pipeline for leadership into OHA; and recruit new members. Most important, they’d offer a place where people who share common concerns could be in dialogue with each other, throughout the year as well as the annual meeting. The OHA can provide space on the OHA website for interest groups, both to foster internal communication and to showcase exemplary oral history work.
For information on the specific meeting places, consult the OHA 2013 program guide (http://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/OHA-2013-Program-Final.pdf ). If you wish to join an interest group but cannot attend the meeting, or if you wish to help develop another interest group, contact the OHA office at oha@gsu.edu.
We look forward to what comes out of the interest group meetings in Oklahoma City!
INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION / IOHA
XVIIIth International Conference
“Power and Democracy: The Many Voices of Oral History”
9th – 12th July 2014
Barcelona – Spain
For each international conference the IOHA is able to provide small grants for a limited number of participants. The IOHA Conference/Master Class Scholarship Fund aims to bring together international oral history scholars from inside and outside the academic realm, to continue building a unique global platform for professional exchange and comparative oral history inquiry.
IOHA Conference/Masterclass Grants take the form of financial support for travel costs, master classes fees or conference fees. This time the maximum grant is 6.850-€. (as of March 2014). Most awards range between 250 € to 500 €. The grant is a supplement; applicants are advised to start looking for funds from other sources as soon as they determine their intention to participate.
Scholarship application deadline: 1 December 2013
Consideration will be given only to those whose proposals for inclusion in the conference program have been accepted. (Submission for conference paper proposals is due by July 15, 2014.) See the conference website for more information:
http://2014iohacongress.wordpress.com
and the IOHA website:
http://www.iohanet.org/index.php/en/conferences/forthcoming-conferences
The IOHA Scholarship Committee will send out notification letters by 1 January 2014 to all applicants whose application has reached us before the deadline. In order to receive an award, those selected must submit their final abstracts and papers by the published deadline and present their papers in person at the conference in Barcelona. .
The deadline for receipt of the final paper is April 30, 2014. The final confirmation of IOHA Scholarship Award will depend on the submission of your paper. Any offer we make will be withdrawn if you do not submit your final paper.
Early submission of final paper is strongly advised, as this may prove helpful as you try to secure your visa. Applications for a visa should generally be submitted at least five months in advance of your planned date of travel.
Please see the attached document for criteria and submission information
Rosalie Riegle, winner of the Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award will be talking and signing books at the Joy Mennonite Church, 504 NE 16th Street, Oklahoma City on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7pm. The event is hosted by the Oklahoma Center for Conscience.
Larry Goodwyn, co-founder of the Duke oral history program, has passed away. His obituary is available from the Duke University newspaper.
The mission of the Summersell Center is “to investigate and promote understanding of the history and culture of the American South through research and public programming.”
The center has paired up with the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to bring awareness to preserving oral history. UNC’s program dedicates itself to recording interviews of people’s accounts of Southern historical events and immortalizing them on the Internet.
For more information on the Southern Oral History Program, visit sohp.org, and for the Summersell Center, visit scss.ua.edu.
