Join us on Thursday, October 8th, 5:00-7:30 Pacific Time for a virtual screening of documentary filmmaker Joseph Juhn‘s Jeronimo: the Untold Story of Koreans in Cuba. Please RSVP for the Zoom & Vimeo film screening links. We are providing this event free of charge.
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).
Dear SOHA 2020 virtual conference participant,
Thank you for being part of the Southwest Oral History Association 2020 virtual conference and helping to make it a tremendous success. Everyone’s consistent participation and engagement helped to ensure that even though we were meeting virtually from mutually distant locations. This conference was characterized by the same sort of supportive and genuinely collegial atmosphere that SOHA has always enjoyed in our in-person conferences.
We would like to thank all of the remarkable presenters who led the panels, roundtables, and workshops. We appreciate our honored guests who spoke or presented in our plenary sessions and everyone who attended and supported the presentations. Congratulations to the 2020 awardees! Please complete this survey and share your experience with us. We will select one person for a free annual membership for your response. We also hope you’ll consider sharing your #SOHA2020 experience with our community by submitting a fall newsletter article. Submissions are typically 100-250 words with photos and captions. Submissions are due Friday, September 25, 2020 to soha@unlv.edu.
SOHA offered the conference at no-cost/donation basis to students and members with a nominal cost to non-members. Because donations help sustain our 501c3 non-profit, we hope you will consider renewing/joining our membership or donating directly to our programs: bit.ly/supportSOHA.
In spring 2021, we will hold a one day symposium instead of a traditional conference to celebrate the 40th anniversary of SOHA. More information will soon be forthcoming. Moreover, we are currently planning ahead for an in-person meeting in mid-to-late spring 2022 at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In the meantime, please keep your calendar open for several other virtual events in the coming year. We hope you can attend these upcoming events (see the attached flyers and RSVP links below):
Thursday, October 1st, 4pm Pacific Let’s Talk about Tech with SOHA President Jennifer Keil, Founder of 70 Degrees – What kinds of technology are you using to conduct remote interviews? What lessons have you learned? Be a part of the conversation!
Thursday, October 8th, 5:00-7:30 Pacific Time – a virtual screening of documentary filmmaker Joseph Juhn‘s Jeronimo: the Untold Story of Koreans in Cuba
Friday, October 23, 1-2:30pm Pacific Time – a workshop with SOHA 2nd Vice President Dr. Summer Cherland, titled “The Craft of Doing Oral History“
Thursday, November 5th, 4pm Pacific
COVID19 Collections with SOHA 1st Vice President Dr. Farina King – Are you doing work on COVID19? Call in for a conversation about launching and analyzing COVID19 stories. Please bring your own ideas to share with all of us.
Again, thank you for helping to make our 2020 virtual conference so successful. We hope you will continue to participate in the great things we are currently planning.
Two of the sessions were recorded and are now available on the SOHA YouTube channel: Nevada Native Artists Speak (featuring Jack Malotte and Jean LaMarr, moderated by Fawn Douglas); and the Digging Deep and Branching Out roundtable (featuring Iesha Jackson, Doris L. Watson, Claytee White, and Marcia Gallo). Please check them out and share the links with anyone who might be interested.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Keil, SOHA President
Farina King and Ryan Morini, 2020 conference program co-chairs
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We appreciated your live remarks! Congratulations, again!
We appreciate your incredible contributions to SOHA! Congratulations!
The student virtual mingle is hosted by the SOHA Student Representative Teagan Dreyer
as an opportunity for students and emerging scholars of oral history to meet and get to
know each other. This mingle will include ice breaker activities and games that everyone
can participate in via Zoom.
SOHA acknowledges 2020 as the Centennial of the 19th Amendment, which upheld women’s rights to vote in the United States. The #SOHA2020 Virtual Conference features a roundtable, “How Feminisms Inform Our Work: Honoring 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage,” on Saturday, September 12, 2020, 11:30 am-12:30 am Pacific Time. Register through our SOHA 2020 Conference website.
The panelists include:
Karen S. Harper, Historical Society of Long Beach
Karen Harper, an independent writing and editing professional, has greatly served and participated in SOHA, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an experienced oral historian who has created youth oral history programs, for example, with the Historical Society of Long Beach.
Joyce Moore, UNLV Archives, Independent Scholar
Joyce Moore is an Archivist at UNLV University Libraries and is a long-time SOHA leader and a member of the Board of Directors. She has served as SOHA’s Historian since 2015.
Elizabeth Rule (Chickasaw), George Washington University
Rule serves as the Assistant Director of the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy and Faculty in Residence at George Washington University. Her work has been published in the American Quarterly and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and her research has been featured in the Washington Post, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, The Atlantic, and NPR. Her book manuscript, ”Reproducing Resistance: Gendered Violence and Indigenous Nationhood,” explores the intersection of Native American/First Nations women’s reproductive justice issues and gender violence. Rule received her Ph.D. and M.A. in American Studies from Brown University, and her B.A. from Yale University. She is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
Moderator:
Joanne Goodwin, UNLV
Joanne Goodwin is a history professor at UNLV. She researches 20th Century U.S. History with a specialization in women and gender history. She directed the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project stored at the Lied Library of UNLV and the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada until 2017.
We look forward to “seeing” you all at our SOHA 2020 Virtual Conference.
We excited to share our 2020 conference program! Join us September 11-13, 2020 via Zoom. You can pre-register here. We ask that you register by September 9th, 2020. Some programs have been moved to October such as our introduction to oral history workshop and a documentary screening with the director. More information will be provided at the conference for future events. Please contact the conference co-chairs at soha2020conf@gmail.com with any questions.
We are offering the conference at no-cost/donation basis to students and members with a nominal cost to non-members. We hope you will help sustain our 501c3 non-profit by renewing/joining our membership or fund our programs, bit.ly/supportSOHA. We will have a keynote address, plenary sessions, and an award ceremony in which we will acknowledge our 2020 Mink awardee, Professor William (Willy) Bauer, 2020 Lifetime Awardee, Professor Caryll Dziedziak, mini-grant, and scholarship recipients. Our Zoom platform will continue the mentorship program with our network of practitioners. We will archive portions of the conference and offer them on our website as a resource.
Follow updates on our social media accounts with #SOHA2020 and share your sessions online to promote attendance.
Come to the #SOHA2020 Virtual Conference! Register and learn more at https://www.southwestoralhistory.org/conference.html
Save the date for our Lightning Round on Friday, Sept. 11, 2:30 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
The Lightning Round features new and emerging oral historians. This lightning round is a special session where emerging scholars can pre-register to give brief presentations (3-5 minutes long each) about their oral history research. The session is organized and moderated by SOHA Secretary Dalena Sanderson-Hunter (University of California, Los Angeles) and SOHA 2020 Conference Committee member Brittany Romanello (Arizona State University).
Join us for the #SOHA2020 Plenary Session on Saturday, September 12, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Pacific Time for a book presentation with author E. Patrick Johnson featuring Honeypot.
Patrick Johnson recently published his book Honeypot, which addresses Southern women who love women. This session will involve a public reading, followed by conversation and a Q&A session, moderated by Past SOHA President Marcia M. Gallo.
Register and learn more about the SOHA Virtual Conference at https://www.southwestoralhistory.org/conference.html.
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