Author: SOHA News

Southwest Oral History Association https://sohanews.wordpress.com http://www.southwestoralhistory.org

SOHA Winter 2019-20 Newsletter

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

Happy Holidays! Thank you to our generous SOHA members and donors! We hope you enjoy our SOHA Winter 2019-20 Newsletter.

SOHA’s Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2020, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Follow #SOHA2020 conference & news updates on social media with @SWoralhistory! You can register today to ensure your early bird rate.

Register now for the 2020 SOHA conference

Please see bit.ly/2020panels for sample submissions and to organize a panel. Call for Proposals is due January 6th, 2020.

We appreciate the support of individual new members, renewing members, and donors, especially the Ak-Chin Indian Community and the HL Boyer Charitable Foundation. Your contributions make our oral history education and outreach possible!

Please consider making your year-end donation via our website, southwestoralhistory.org.

SOHA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and donations are very much appreciated. Such donations are tax deductible in accordance with IRS Tax Code Section 170(c).

Donate to SOHA link at Eventbrite

 

SOHA 2020 Awards, Scholarships & Mini-Grants

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

The Purpose of SOHA is to provide a vehicle for communication among persons, programs, and institutions using oral testimony; to encourage cooperation among its members; to promote standards among oral historians, to foster an understanding of and use of oral history; to provide guidance to projects; to create educational programs and resources; to aid in securing financial funding for members’ projects. Apply for the 2020 SOHA awards for the March 27-29, 2020 conference at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2020. Award Notifications: February 28, 2020. See our Call for Proposals for additional details.

Eva Tulene Watt Scholarship for Native American Scholars:
Named in honor of Apache author and oral historian Eva Tulene Watt, who shared the story of her family and her people’s past through recounted events, biographical sketches, and cultural descriptions (Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975, with Keith Basso, University of Arizona, 2004), this SOHA scholarship enables indigenous oral history practitioners to attend and participate in the Annual SOHA Conference. As part of the award, the SOHA conference registration fee is waived and travel and hotel expenses are reimbursed up to an amount of $500. Recipients are not eligible for the Eva Tulene Watt scholarship two years in a row. A one-year SOHA membership will be included in the scholarship award. 2020 Application

General Scholarship:
SOHA awards two General Scholarships to oral historians and practitioners to attend and participate in the Annual SOHA Conference. Students, teachers, independent oral historians and individuals associated with nonprofit organizations in the general SOHA region are encouraged to apply. Funding includes one cash award of $300 per recipient and should be applied toward travel and hotel expenses. The SOHA conference registration fee is waived. Recipients are not eligible for the General Scholarship two years in a row. A one-year SOHA membership will be included in the scholarship award. 2020 Application

Mini-Grants
SOHA awards up to three mini-grants each year totaling up to $1500. Funds may be used for interviewing, equipment, transcription, editing, publishing, and other oral history related expenses. Students, teachers, and independent researchers, historical societies, archives, museums, and non-profits in the general SOHA region are encouraged to apply to conduct research on the Southwest. Recipients may be invited to present their work at a SOHA conference within two years of receiving the Award. We also ask that recipients prepare a written report on their work for inclusion in SOHA’s newsletter within six months of receiving the award. 2020 Application

Visit www.southwestoralhistory.org/awards.html for more information.

Northeastern State University

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

Dr. Farina King, SOHA 1st VP, teaches oral history methodology at Northeastern State University. She hosted a conversation with Sarah Milligan, Head, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program and Julie Pearson-Little Thunder at Oklahoma State University. View their digital collections here that are hosted by CONTENTdm and Omeka: https://library.okstate.edu/oralhistory/digital/. You will learn about Oklahoma Conservation Heritage, Married for Life, Oklahoma Native Artists, OSU and OK Diverse Sexuality and Gender, Spotlighting Oklahoma, and other collections. Jennifer Keil, SOHA President, provided feedback about her role as a digital historian for her company 70 Degrees. She is working on California community oral history projects for cities, governments, and non-profit organizations. View some of the Orange County interviews with the public library here: ocstories.org.

Our discussions about preservation and access emphasized the changes in technologies. We discussed migration to new platforms and metadata structure like XML files. To learn more about project management and receive workshop training, we encourage you to attend oral history conferences. Sarah is the American Folklore Society, Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Co-Chair (2020) October 13-17, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Farina and Jennifer are organizing the Southwest Oral History Association meeting March 27-29, 2020 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Voices – Veterans Storytelling Project

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

VOICES – Veterans Storytelling Project

Our next public reading of VOICES will take place on Saturday, May 9, 2020, 7:00pm at Heroes Hall, OC Fair & Event Center! Admission and parking are free.

What’s YOUR story? We are calling on veterans to participate in our VOICES: Veterans Storytelling Project, which offers free coaching to vets in compiling and sharing their stories of life before, during and after military service.

Hear what veterans have to say about participating in VOICES:

The project is conducted by Arts Orange County in collaboration with Heroes Hall at OC Fair & Event Center and Tierney Center for Veteran Services at Goodwill OC. If you are interested in learning more about how to share your own stories through this program, please contact Dave Barton at (714) 598-7406. Dozens of OC veterans have participated in the four years we have offered this program. There is no cost to participate.

 

VOICES is presented by:

VOICES is made possible in part through funding from:

 

The William Gillespie Foundation

 

Visit Heroes Hall on-lineView excerpts from past VOICES readings:

 

The voices of veterans come alive at Heroes Hall at the OC Fair & Event Center as former military men and women share their very personal and poignant stories of service. VOICES is the culmination of a six-week veterans’ storytelling workshop.

Follow and Share @voicesveterans on Facebook

View the 2018 Program

 

 

October 5, 2019 Public Reading 

Join SOHA

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

The Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) was founded in 1981 to serve practitioners of oral history in Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, New Mexico and contiguous areas. Today, we have expanded to Texas, Oklahoma, Central and Northern California, and other parts of the Southwest. Through publications, meetings, workshops and special events, we support and promote oral history as a method for exploring and recording history, culture, and current experiences. In this endeavor, we cooperate with other organizations and institutions in the region and maintain close ties with the national Oral History Association. Visit www.southwestoralhistory.org to learn more. Please become a member by visiting https://squareup.com/store/southwest-oral-history-association. We hope to see you at SOHA’s Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2020, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Please see our Call for Proposals with a deadline of January 6, 2020.

SOHA at OHA 2019

by SOHA News, posted in conference, oral history

It was wonderful seeing our network at the Oral History Association conference in Salt Lake City, Utah! Thank you for joining us. Congratulations to Dr. García, the 2019 Mink awardee, and all the award recipients. Please see some highlights from this year’s conference.

The following SOHA six sessions were held from the OHA 2019 Complete Program

009. Indigenous Voices of the Land
ROUNDTABLE
8:30 to 10:00 am, Canyons Ballroom
PANELISTS:
Wahéhshon Shiann Whitebean, Concordia University
Bridget Groat, Arizona State University
Ryan Morini, University of Florida
Ashkan Soltani Stone, Weber State University
Tommy Rock, University of Utah
Larry Cesspooch, Th rough Native Eyes Productions
CHAIR: Farina King, Northeastern State University

029. Curating Communities
PANEL
3:15 to 4:45 pm, Canyons Ballroom
PARTICIPANTS:
Curating the Revealing Confi guration of Intergenerational Latinx
Immigrant Community and Family Histories Ana Elizabeth
Rosas, University of California, Irvine
Diplomatic Delegates’s Cultural Exchanges with Historians
Shinyoung Park, Republic Of Korea Consulate General, Los Angeles
Connecting with Oral Historians and their Communities Jennifer
Keil, 70 Degrees & Southwest Oral History Association
CHAIR: Ana Elizabeth Rosas, University of California, Irvine

040. Native American Stories of Peoplehood
ROUNDTABLE
8:15 to 9:45 am, Canyons Ballroom
PANELISTS:
Sheldon Spotted Elk, Northern Cheyenne Tribe
(Tsetsehesestahase)
Midge Dellinger, Northeastern State University
Zonnie Gorman, University of New Mexico
Rachael Cassidy, University of New Mexico
Yvette Towersap-Tuell, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe
Miranda Haskie, Diné College
CHAIR: Farina King, Northeastern State University

070. Making Space for Oral History: A Town Hall
Practitioners Build and Maintain It
Meeting on Current Threats to Capacity and How
ROUNDTABLE
3:45 to 5:15 pm, Deer Valley
PANELISTS:
Natalie Fousekis, California State University, Fullerton
Michelle Little, Independent Scholar
Sarah Schmitt, Kentucky Oral History Commission, Kentucky
Historical Society
Allison Tracy-Taylor, Three First Names
Cameron Vandersco, Independent Scholar

081. Big, Small, In-Person, and Online: Discussions
on Incorporating Oral History into Undergraduate
Classrooms
ROUNDTABLE
8:30 to 10:00 am, Canyons Ballroom
PANELISTS:
Bianca Suarez, Wayne State University
Karen E. Schairer, Northern Arizona University
Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nancy MacKay, San Jose State University
CHAIR: Priscilla M. Martinez, University of California, Santa
Cruz & Tucson Chinese Cultural Center

102. The South Phoenix Oral History Project:
Engaging Community College Students in Local
History
PANEL
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Powder Mountain-Solitude
PARTICIPANTS:
South Mountain Community College Turns 40: Building a Local
and Institutional Archive Summer Cherland, South Mountain
Community College
Digital Storytelling: Conducting and Using Oral History Travis
May, South Mountain Community College
Oral History and Storytelling: Ancient Skill, Modern Approach
Liz Warren, South Mountain Community College
Th e Student Experience Sydnee Carey, South Mountain
Community College
CHAIR: Summer Cherland, South Mountain Community College

See you at UNLV March 27-29, 2020. Participate by submitting a proposal. See https://www.southwestoralhistory.org/SOHA2020_CFP.pdf for more information.

Oral History 101

by SOHA News, posted in workshop


CSU Dominguez Hills Gerth Archives and Special Collections will be hosting “Oral History 101,” an
introductory workshop to the field of
oral history, on Thursday, October 24th from 1:30-3:30.

The workshop will take attendees from initial idea through finished
product. We will cover the basics of oral history, project planning,
technology, interview setup, writing questions, release forms, providing
access and/or a transcript, available resources, and preservation. Additionally, the workshop will include a
series of question and answer examples to help individuals hone
interviewing skills and provoke additional discussion in the workshop.

If you would like to join us or have any questions, please contact Beth McDonald at 310-243-2431 or emcdonald@csudh.edu

Book Award

by SOHA News, posted in Book

Congratulations to Dr. Juan Coronado on his book award. He is the author of “I’m Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place” Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War. Juan attended the award event this past weekend in LA.
#southwest #oralhistory #history #historians #LosAngeles