Category: oral history

Remote Interviewing Webinar Follow-up

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

Greetings!

It’s been a couple of weeks since we all gathered for SOHA’s roundtable on Remote Interviewing in the COVID19 Era. Caryll and I want to thank you again for contributing and talking with us about your interests and experiences. If you have feedback for us about your experiences, please send your thoughts and suggestions my way.

I’ve attached the slides from our presentation, since many of you indicated they were blurry. Please make special note of how you might get in contact with SOHA. We’d love to have you join our organization or participate in our virtual conference next month.

Please also feel free to get in touch with Caryll or me with questions, thoughts or comments! We are delighted by the camaraderie and collaboration!

Caryll Batt Dziedziak web: https://www.unlv.edu/wrin

Summer Cherland web: southphoenixoralhistory.com; @smcchistory; podcast: “More and More Every Day” https://www.buzzsprout.com/961189 (and on iTunes/Spotify)

 

Finally, beginning on September 3rd, The South Phoenix Oral History Project will be hosting a monthly virtual “happy hour/cafe” for oral historians. We invite you to call in to talk about a monthly topic with a special guest. Click here for the schedule and to register.

All the best,

Summer

Summer Cherland, PhD

South Mountain Community College

MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

Residential Faculty | History

7050 S. 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85042

summer.cherland@southmountaincc.edu

http://www.southmountaincc.edu/

https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/

Texas Oral History Association 2020 Conference

by SOHA News, posted in conference, oral history

Friday, Sept 11, 2020 from 2-5pm

Pre Conference Workshop – “Museo del Westside : A Community-Based Oral History Project”

This year’s workshop will be led by Sarah Zenaida Gould, PhD, Interim Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute in San Antonio. Her workshop will demonstrate how to use oral history for community-based history, storytelling, and social justice projects.

Participants will learn about essential steps, best practices, digitization strategies, and increasing public engagement in heritage conservation through oral history projects. The workshop will emphasize the importance of community trust and shared authority as well as offer examples of how oral history projects can connect to campaigns for social justice while preserving memory, ritual, and identity.

The workshop is open to all, whether attending the conference or not. To participate in this workshop, select the workshop option during registration. We understand that COVID-19 has had an impact on many individuals financially. Therefore instead of a workshop fee, we are accepting “pay what you can” donations to aid paying our workshop speaker as well as support the operations of TOHA. Any donation of $15 or more will apply towards a year of TOHA membership.

Friday, September 11, 6-8pm

Friday Night “Meet ‘n Greet” Movie Night | Impact : The San Antonio Jewish Oral History Project

Join us for an exclusive documentary screen of Impact : The San Antonio Jewish Oral History Project followed by Q&A by the creators. This award-winning documentary is about the impact Jewish people had on San Antonio over the past century and is based on interviews with the men and women who have made a difference in San Antonio.

Please visit www.baylor.edu/toha/2020conference for latest information.

 

UC Berkeley Webinar

by SOHA News, posted in oral history, webinar

The Oral History Center is hosting a Remote Interviewing Webinar:

From The Oral History Center at UC Berkeley: http://ucblib.link/OHC

This is a recording of a webinar given by historian Paul Burnett on how to record oral history interviews using Zoom. Paul provides an overview of the protocols that were developed to facilitate remote recording of narrators of the highest quality available during the COVID-19 pandemic. We developed these protocols for the Zoom video conference platform using both audio and video. We also provide instructions for additional, higher-quality backup audio recordings. Interviewers will benefit from having access to a professional Zoom license, but they can produce good recordings with a free account as well. Narrators only need access to a computer or telephone, although a smartphone app will aid in the capture of better audio on their end.

For the closed-captioned version of this webinar, please see this video: https://youtu.be/aIidnLhWMvk

Remote Interviewing in the COVID-19 Era

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

Join us for a discussion of conducting and using remote interviews and oral histories. Dr. Caryll Batt Dziedziak and Dr. Summer Cherland will share their experiences conducting and processing interviews online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This workshop will include a robust discussion of concerns, benefits, and useful technologies when it comes to this work. We hope you will join us to share your own perspectives.

This workshop is being offered at no cost. We hope you consider that SOHA is a 501c3 non-profit. Please consider becoming a member of our and donate to our organization here: bit.ly/supportSOHA. Thank you!

Share this registration form here: https://bit.ly/3GNVH1L

 

Farina King launches Diné Doctor History Syllabus

by SOHA News, posted in oral history
Diné Doctor art by Leah T. Smith (2020) for the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts

Dr. Farina King, SOHA Vice President, has launched a Diné Doctor History Syllabus that she is developing and working on continually to share and feature materials related to Navajo histories of disease and healing. The syllabus includes a section on oral histories, stories, recommended sources, and resources in support of Diné communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. If folks have any suggestions or come across sources, resources, or any helpful information for this project, please let Dr. King know. Ahéhee’! Learn more at https://farinaking.com/dinedoctorhistorysyllabus/.

An Interview with Dalena Sanderson-Hunter, SOHA Secretary

by SOHA News, posted in oral history
Dalena Sanderson-Hunter

Dalena Sanderson-Hunter is a Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures in the UCLA Library Special Collections. She began serving as SOHA Secretary in January 2020.

  1. How did you become involved in SOHA?

I first became involved in SOHA in 2009 when I was invited to join the conference planning committee. It was a pleasurable and eye-opening experience to work with so many dedicated oral historians. At that conference I planned a tour of Leimert Park and a screening of the documentary about Leimert Park. After being a member for several years and presenting at a couple of conferences I was invited to run for secretary. I was excited to work with the other officers and plan an event for graduate students and new oral historians. While COVID-19 has forced us to postpone our in person meeting, I hope we can find new ways to interact and share our work with each other.

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Introducing SOHA Graduate Student Representative, Teagan Dreyer

by SOHA News, posted in oral history

The members of this organization are among those that seek to give a voice to those that experienced history just by living their lives . . .

-Teagan Dreyer
Teagan Dreyer and Farina King in Monument Valley, Navajo Nation (May 2019)

My name is Teagan Dreyer, a graduate student at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and my involvement with SOHA was completely by chance. At NSU I took a class taught by Dr. Farina King and one of the texts for this course was her book Earth Memory Compass. This text looked at the boarding school experiences of Navajo Peoples, and included a lot of oral history, focusing on the individuals that went through a journey that was complex and not as simple as had been presented to me in the past. Being from Oklahoma, a Native American, and my father having worked at a boarding school that still serves Native American students, I connected with Dr. King’s research. She allowed me to accompany her on an excursion to the Navajo Reservation and gave me the opportunity to meet community members who had personal ties to more research and oral history she continued to do. Seeing my interest she introduced me to SOHA, and from her encouragement I was voted the Student Representative and was able to be put on a panel in the upcoming conference with her talking about this experience, along with how it inspired me in the direction of my thesis.

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