Find Your People: Dispatch about the 2017 Oral History Association Conference

November 7, 2017 Admin

From left to right: Jess Lamar Reece Holler, Kimber Thomas, Danielle Dulken, Rachel Gelfand and Fanny García after their workshop, "Orality, Affective Power, and Activism: Making Oral History Art" at the 2017 Oral History Association Annual Meeting … — From left to right: Jess Lamar Reece Holler, Kimber Thomas, Danielle Dulken, Rachel Gelfand and Fanny García after their workshop, "Orality, Affective Power, and Activism: Making Oral History Art" at the 2017 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In this post OHMA alum Fanny Julissa García (2016) discusses her experience at the recent 2017 Oral History Association Conference in comparison to her first visit to the conference in 2016, and her collaboration on a panel about making oral history into art.

OHA 2016: Generations in Conversation

December 12, 2016 Admin

In Context Journal asks 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting attendees what they would like to see in future issues. — *In Context Journal* asks 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting attendees what they would like to see in future issues.

In this post, OHMA alumna Cindy Choung (2009), recipient of our first OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Grant, writes on dialogue and difference among oral history practitioners at the 2016 Oral History Association Meeting. She offers thoughts on creating space for connection and reflection between oral historians across generations.