Calling all Southwest members to attend the @ohassociation meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah October 16-19, 2019! Enjoy Canada at the 2018 meeting!
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I’m Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place
Congratulations to Juan Coronado, SOHA Co-President, for his recent book publication! His book, I’m Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War (Latinos in the United States), was officially published by Michigan State University in March 2018. Learn more about the book and order your copy at http://msupress.org/books/book/?id=50-1D0446B#.WwSzKO4vzIV.
Check out the positive review of the book in Publishers Weekly. Others have also praised his work that features oral histories of Mexican American POWs and Chicano Vietnam War experiences and stories:
From the start, and by design, the story of America’s Vietnam prisoners of war was disciplined into an official version. By focusing attention on the Mexican American Vietnam POWs, Juan David Coronado not only identifies how their shared cultural heritage affected their lives before, during, and after captivity, but also shows us just how diverse even a small group of prisoners could actually be. A welcome contribution to our understanding of American POW history. –Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and author, Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight
Juan David Coronado has written a superb and important examination of Chicano prisoners of war in Vietnam; the firstaccount experiences reflected in the work add to this enlightening academic read.
–Charley Trujillo, author of Dogs from Illusion, American Book Award winner for Soldados, and codirector of the companion document
BOOK INFORMATION:
Michigan State University Press Paperback
$29.95 USD ISBN: 9781611862720
eBook$23.95 USD
ISBN: 9781609175542
Historical Society of Southern California
HSSC 2019 Conference
Saturday, February 9, 2019
8:30am- 5:00pm
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330
The call for papers for the HSSC 2019 Conference is now posted.
CALL FOR PAPERS
- Seeking submissions on the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Southern California, or related fields
- Proposals for full panels strongly
- Graduate student panels welcome.
- Those submitting panel or roundtable proposals should include a brief (100-word) description of the panel, a 250-word abstract for each presentation, and a one-page c.v. for each
- Those submitting individual papers should include a 250-word abstract and a one-page v.
- AV requests should be included for each presenter in the proposal.
- All program participants will be expected to pre-register for the conference.
- Proposals are due Friday, November 9, 2018, by 11:59PM PST.
- Please email your proposal information to hsscconference@thehssc.org
- Panelists will be notified by Friday, November 30, 2018.
Contact HSSC Executive Director Amy Essington at executivedirector@thehssc.org with any questions.
OHA Flashback Friday
This Flackback Friday is from the 2017 Oral History Association meeting in Minnesota. Join the Oral History Association from October 10-14, 2018 at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Registration is open for the conference. Click here for more information.
SOHA 2019 Scholarships & Awards
You can apply to our 2019 SOHA scholarships and awards. Please do so by downloading the application. Visit https://southwestoralhistory.org/awards.html 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. 2019 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. 2019 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. 2019 Application
13th-annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar
Archives Bazaar
13th-annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar
Saturday, October 20, 2018
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Doheny Memorial Library
USC University Park Campus
EXHIBITOR REGITRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Please email Liza Posas at posas@usc.edu to be put on the waiting list.
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
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All Day. All in one Place.
Come and celebrate the diversity of stories that make Southern California such a place of discovery. At the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, presented by L.A. as Subject and the USC Libraries, anyone with an interest in the region’s history will find something of value. A broad array of institutions and archives will have experts on hand to show off their collections and answer questions.
In addition to the wealth of information on display from exhibitors, day-long programming will feature preservation workshops and enlightening presenatations.
The USC Libraries serve as the host institution for L.A. as Subject, an alliance of libraries, museums, and other archival and cultural organizations. The relationship complements the USC libraries’ strong regional history collection and is a natural outgrowth of the libraries’ efforts to preserve and expand access to the primary sources of L.A. history.
USC is minutes from downtown Los Angeles and is easily accessible by major freeways and the Metro Expo line. Doheny Library is located in the center of campus, adjacent to Alumni Park and across from Bovard Auditorium, on Trousdale Avenue. For information regarding parking on campus, visit the Parking Services Website.
Visit https://laassubject.org/archives-bazaar for additional details.
Orange County Archives in Action
Please share the Orange County Archives in Action Flyer PDF with your community. You can register to exhibit your organization at https://goo.gl/FetrmB. If you have any questions, please contact the OC Archives in Action Planning Committee at ocarchivesbazaar@gmail.com. We hope to see you there!
Generatively Humane: Inclusive Approaches to Undocumented Experiences and Histories
Event Details
- When: Friday, October 5, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
- Where: UC Irvine Humanities Gateway 1030
- Organizer: Ana Elizabeth Rosas (email)
Visit http://illuminations.uci.edu/events/2018_10_5_Generatively_Humane.html for more details.
Symposium on Displacement, Diaspora and Documentation
Symposium on Displacement, Diaspora and Documentation
October 19, 2018, 8:30 am – 4:15pm
University of California, Los Angeles in Room 111 at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) Building
Forced displacement and other human migration crises raise complex interacting issues about nation-states, laws, borders, human rights, citizenship and identity, security, resource allocation, and information and communication technologies (ICT). Integral to this complexity, documentation and particularly official records are pervasive and fundamental yet somehow rarely conspicuous. Much attention has been focused on official verification of identities and citizenship of displaced persons and other migrants, vetting them for security risks, reunifying families, and determining whether or not they qualify for asylum and resettlement. However the issues that asylum seekers and other migrants confront in understanding, accessing, carrying, preserving and producing the kinds of authoritative documentation required for these as well as other bureaucratic processes in their future lives remain under-addressed.
This one day symposium is sponsored by the Refugee Rights in Records Project of the UCLA Department of Information Studies’ Center for Information as Evidence and the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, as well as the Middle Eastern Rights Association. It will bring together speakers from a range of backgrounds: people with experience of coming to the United States as refugees, asylum seekers or economic migrants; those who assist and advocate for them; and record keepers, archivists and museum curators who manage official records or collect and (re)present documentation of displacement and diaspora. Among topics to be addressed are:
• Issues faced by child and women migrants and relating to family separation/reunification
• Coping with trauma and health concerns
• Education and literacy concerns and initiatives
• Classification considerations and more existential identity dilemmas
• Support infrastructure for personal recordkeeping
• Development of a platform to ensure personal rights in and to bureaucratic records
• Documenting and archiving current and historical personal and community displacement and diaspora experiences
• The design and implementation of humanitarian-based information technologies interventions
The symposium is one of a series of workshops taking place across the globe in 2018 to highlight the issues linked to records and other documentation for refugees, asylum seekers and others forced by their circumstances to leave their homes and seek more secure lives and futures elsewhere.
To register to attend, please email Anne Gilliland at Gilliland@gseis.ucla.edu. Registration is free.
Program information to follow.
Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Program, Department of Information Studies
Director, Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), aeri.website
Director, Center for Information as Evidence, GSE&IS
212 GSE&IS Building
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
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