Category: oral history

Every Day-Teaching in the COVID-19 Era

by SOHA News, posted in oral history
Dr. Summer Cherland, SOHA 2nd Vice President, has worked on launching a blog about Every Day-Teaching in the COVID-19 Era with the South Phoenix Oral History project. See the blog and updates about this incredible work on the South Phoenix Oral History site.
Here is Summer Cherland’s update about this work:
“Over the past few weeks, you’ve shared photos of your new work spaces with us. It appears that we are taking full advantage of dining tables, kitchen counters, and guest rooms. Some of you are teaching outside, others have designed at-home studios, and many of you are figuring out how to teach and parent in the same space. Take a look at our photo gallery of your creativity! Be on the lookout for an ‘after hours’ pic that cracked me up!
Do we miss our too-hot classrooms and our teeny offices now?
Here’s one of our favorites [attached]. Dr. Farina King of Northeastern State University signals her office hours to the rest of the family with a simple door hanger. Brilliant.
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Looking ahead:
Are you proud of your new work space? Send it our way! We’ll do another photo gallery soon.
Next week, we will spotlight four student interviews.
Our podcast is going live on Friday [April 3]!”
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Podcast: More and More Every Day

In Remembrance of Louis Manuel, Jr.

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SOHA Honors Life and Service of Former Ak-Chin Indian Community Chairman Manuel

SOHA is deeply saddened at the untimely death of former Ak-Chin Indian Community Chairman Louis Manuel, Jr., who passed away at the age of 57 on April 6, 2020.   Under Chairman Manuel’s leadership, the Ak-Chin Community has sponsored the Eva Tulene Watt award for Native Americans to attend the SOHA conference for years. Native Americans historically have been oral historians and are a valued part of SOHA.

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Ak-Chin Indian Community Former Chairman Manuel

Chairman Manuel was named chairman of the tribe in 2009 and served until January 2016.  During his tenure, Harrah’s Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino expanded and the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle was constructed.  He helped guide the Community through a period of rapid growth and economic diversification.  He was an advocate for Indigenous education, services for elders and accessibility to social and health services for tribal members.  The mayor of Maricopa, the adjoining town, Congressman Tom O’Halleran and fellow tribal leaders were among those who praised him.

SOHA will respectfully tell our membership of Honorary Chairman Manuel’s role in the Watt award and have a moment of silence for him at our awards ceremony at our upcoming annual conference.

Remote Oral History Interviews

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SOHA received this list of Remote Oral History Tips from the Oral History Association Archives Interest Group. We hope we can share information with our members on best practices during these challenging times. We will continue to update this webpage with more resources as they are provided to us.

Remote Oral History Tips:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19usx30S-F4k5WVbkOwDdyEysrAr2h6xQlmG0K8n7-yQ/edit?usp=sharing

Remote Interviewing_information and resources : a Google Doc where we can begin listing existing projects, experiences, and other links

Webinar: Oral History at a Distance: Conducting Remote Interviews

Sponsored by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History and the Oral History Association

Tuesday, March 31, 1pm to 3pm CDT
Followed by an extended Q&A session

This webinar is free for the public, and requires no pre-registration. A recording of the webinar will be posted on the OHA website.

This timely webinar will address the dynamics of conducting remote oral history interviews. It will begin with an analysis of the pros and cons of conducting distance oral history interviews. Stephen Sloan will then address aspects of interviewing in a distance environment, breaking down the interviewer and narrator experience in these exchanges, and offer direction on best approaches for interviewing at a distance. In recording remote interviews, Steven Sielaff will cover best practices for recording archival-quality oral history interviews, then discuss in depth the tools and techniques available to enable the user to follow best practices in a remote setting. Physical equipment and software used for landline, cellular, and web-based video conferencing recording solutions will be discussed. Adrienne Cain will cover the legal and ethical considerations and implications of oral histories conducted via distance interviewing. The information included in this section abides by OHA’s Principles and Best Practices, John Neuenschwander’s Oral History and the Law, as well as other resources applicable to distance interviewing.

Facilitators:

Adrienne Cain
Steven Sielaff
Stephen Sloan

The recording and visual presentation will be made available here: https://www.oralhistory.org/2020/03/26/webinar-oral-history-at-a-distance-conducting-remote-interviews/ 

Visit www.baylor.edu/toha/technology for additional resources.

Check out https://networks.h-net.org/h-oralhist.

#SOHA2020

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We are excited to announce an incredible conference program! We look forward to seeing you all at Welcome Reception on March 27, 2020 from 4:30-6:30pm at UNLV Lied Library in the Goldfield.

Please see the PDF #SOHA2020 draft program and share it with your communities.

We hope you register for our conference online and renew your membership. Please do so here: https://squareup.com/store/southwest-oral-history-association.

Consider staying at the Embassy Suites with our group rate available until the end of this week. Please use this code link: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure3.hilton.com%2Fen_US%2Fes%2Freservation%2Fbook.htm%3FinputModule%3DHOTEL%26ctyhocn%3DLASESES%26spec_plan%3DCESSOH%26arrival%3D20200327%26departure%3D20200329%26cid%3DOM%2CWW%2CHILTONLINK%2CEN%2CDirectLink%26fromId%3DHILTONLINKDIRECT&data=02%7C01%7CJUSTIN.KRAMER%40hilton.com%7Cd587a0b45ee24c03e0ee08d7a5d34fb8%7C660292d2cfd54a3db7a7e8f7ee458a0a%7C0%7C0%7C637160199301730567&sdata=7QfnxIvIJd8RbpHC3QjcRwtg2TJ8M9G1CDE3UKLb6k0%3D&reserved=0

#SOHA2020 at UNLV

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Las Vegas
Postcard from UNLV Special Collections

Join #SOHA2020 at UNLV from March 27-29, 2020 for our annual conference. The conference features a keynote address from Alexander Aviña, ASU Associate Professor on Friday, March 27 and plenary session with oral historian, teacher, writer, and performance artist J. Patrick Johnson on Saturday, March 28. We offer workshops, a documary screening, roundtables, diverse panels, a student lighting round, and a welcome and student reception. You don’t want to miss out on this annual meeting. Register here: https://squareup.com/store/southwest-oral-history-association

See our Local Arrangements guide for places to dine and visit during your stay.

We recommend that you stay at the
Embassy Suites by Hilton Las Vegas
4315 University Center Drive
Las Vegas, Nevada, 89119
USATEL: +1-702-795-2800

We are offering a group rate here:

Register now for the 2020 SOHA conference

SOHA Winter 2019-20 Newsletter

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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

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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

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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