Deadline: June 1,2024 Austin Peay State University Clarksville, Tennessee October 3-5, 2024 The 2024 Ohio Valley History Conference will be held at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. We welcome proposals for individual papers, complete panels, and roundtable discussions on all historical topics, periods, and geographic areas. In addition to this global focus, the conference […]
Deadline: March 7, 2024 The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board is hiring a Lead Records Researcher and five Records Researchers. The vacancies are currently being filled and the deadline to apply is March 7. If you have any questions please contact the board’s chief of staff Stephannie Oriabure at stephannie.oriabure@coldcaserecords.gov The “Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support
Deadline: Saturday, March 9, 2024 The Margaret Walker Center invites student proposals for papers, presentations, and panels for the 18th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 5 & 6, 2024. The CASE Festival will focus on the legacy of Black women writers, and the Black Arts Movement. Proposals must
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 for Submission: Friday, April 12, 2024 Symposium Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024 This year, exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture showcase ingenuity in the Commonwealth, demonstrating how visionary Virginians created everything from crafts and communities to colonies and countries. A Better Life for their Children celebrates a partnership that led to the establishment
Date: Wednesday, March 6 at 12:00 PM EST Learn how to use CollectionBuilder-Sheets (SHEETS) to create a free digital collection website that encourages browsing and contextualizing items through timelines, maps, and word cloud visualizations. No programming experience or software installation is required for this workshop; beginners from any background are welcome! SHEETS, the newest CollectionBuilder
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Dates: Saturday, June 15 – Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Instructors: Suzanne Snider; Guest Instructors: To Be AnnouncedLocation: Hudson, New York Come all ye budding oral historians, radio documentarians, writers, filmmakers, media advocates, and photographers who wish to make use of oral history in your practices. This immersive upstate New York workshop is a rigorous introduction
Dates: March 14 – 17, OnlineInstructor: Suzanne Snider This workshop is designed for educators who want to bring oral history into their classrooms and learning spaces. We’ll begin with a rigorous introduction to oral history theory, methods and practice before reviewing existing curricula and projects as a jumping off place to design our own curricula/projects.
Dates: Friday, March 1 – Sunday, March 3, 2024Location: Online via ZoomInstructors: Suzanne Snider, zavé martohardjono (they/them), Saturday, March 2 For many of us, family is the obvious—and sometimes most complicated—place to start our work as oral historians. In this workshop, participants will learn how to use oral history to document and preserve their family stories. We’ll discuss
Application Consideration Opens March 18, 2024 Hagley’s Oral History Office manages a growing collection of interviews covering a range of topics, from daily life along the Brandywine River, to the history of synthetic textile production, to mushroom farming in Chester County, Pennsylvania, to medical imaging and other industries. Many of these interviews have never been
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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
Deadline: April 1, 2024 Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and History Department invite applications for a two-year Bill and Lorna Chafe Postdoctoral Fellowship in Oral History and Social Justice, to begin in July 2024. CDS and the History Department welcome applications from scholars no more than two years out from the receipt of the
