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OHA Makes Plans for Meeting in Mile High City Summer 2011 Volume XLV Number 2 ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER OHA makes plans for meeting In this issue in Mile High City From the president .........2 By Jennifer Abraham Cramer and Troy Reeves, Co-chairs Exciting changes in store for Make your plans now to attend the 45th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association, Oct. 12-16. This year brings OHA to Colorado for the first time Oral History Review ......... 3 since 1980 with the state’s capital city, Denver (and the Renaissance Hotel), as our host. Denver gives us an awesome opportunity: As a thriving U.S. city with access to some of the most beautiful and rugged landscapes in the country, it Workshops offer more learning furnishes this year’s attendees with the opportunity to take advantage of being opportunities............... 4 somewhere that can provide intellectual stimulation, as well as the physical and emotional satisfaction of viewing or hiking in the beautiful vistas nearby. OHA’s First Vice President/President Elect Horacio Roque-Ramirez con- Denver cultural options ceived of this year’s theme: “Memories of Conflict and Disaster: Oral History abound ................... 5 and the Politics of Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation.” With the commemora- tion of the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, occurring within weeks of our meeting, the theme felt quite appropriate. The events that occurred in Toward developing guidelines for Japan, the Middle East and the U.S. Southeast over the past year add more cre- dence to Horacio’s text. oral history credits .......... 6 With contributors from all over the country and world, we have built a pro- gram that fits our theme while offering space for the presentation of myriad subjects within oral history in general. For example, panelists will address their U.S. history knowledge remains work documenting events such as the Dust Bowl, the Holocaust and the con- low for high school seniors, flict in Vietnam. Also on tap for attendees are sessions on natural and unnatural study shows ............... 6 (continued on page 3) Oral history memoir presented to Make hotel reservations soon ... Library of Congress.......... 7 Take advantage of the Oral History Oral historians express Association’s special conference rate of Denver OCT.12-16, 2011 concern about Boston College $130/night by making reservations now subpoena.................... 9 at the Renaissance Denver Hotel. It’s located at 3801 Quebec St., Denver. State & Regional News ...... 10 For reservations, call 888-238-6762. News & Notes ............ 12 From the president The Denver meeting is approaching with an exciting tinue with our soon-to-be array of events and sessions. Check out the sneak peeks updated, I’m told, H-Oralhist in this issue! The Program Committee, headed by Troy listserv where you can find TReeves and Jennifer Abraham Cramer, have been working new postings, questions and feverishly to finalize the sessions and events. Jen Myronuk responses every day. The and Cyns Nelson, local arrangements co-chairs, have OHA website, however, done a magnificent job of networking the Oral History remains the primary point of Association with local Denver organizations and have information and communica- some marvelous activities in store. Madelyn Campbell, tion. of course, always orchestrates all these various strands The other big news is (on her administrative cello!) into the concert that is the the appointment of Kathy OHA president, Rina Benmayor Annual Meeting. Nasstrom and Troy Reeves Again this year, you will receive in the mail a “preview” as the new co-editors of the Oral History Review. On Jan. or “teaser” of the events, which will also be posted on the 1, 2012, Kim Porter, our current editor of six years, will website along with the schedule of sessions. The final pro- hand over the reins. This will be the first time OHR has gram will not be printed until September, in order to cap- co-editors, but given the growth the journal has enjoyed ture any dropouts and changes that occur over the sum- and the opportunities presented by the digital age, this mer. If you are on the program but for some reason will new arrangement seems not only warranted, but highly be unable to attend to present your work, please notify workable. You can find details in this issue, but I’d like Madelyn or the program co-chairs as soon as possible. to reiterate here our deepest thanks to Kim for bring- Meanwhile, my focus for the past two months has been ing the journal along to this high point, to all those who on the unglamorous but important job of making appoint- submitted very thoughtful proposals, and to the Search ments to our awards and standing committees. I didn’t Committee for a highly professional and thorough pro- realize when I signed up for this job that this was such a cess. critical administrative task. How does one beat the bushes This is my last column before passing on to the happy beyond one’s own network? In a flash of inspiration, I position of past president. It’s been wonderful working suggested that we put a call on the website for commit- with such a competent and engaged Executive Council, tee volunteers. The response was astonishing, and a great and of course with Madelyn, who always kept me on example of the importance of the website. Every week, it track and so patiently walked me through each of my seems, we received enthusiastic responses from entirely responsibilities. It’s been an honor and fun to serve as new folks, many new to the association who want to your president, and I thank everyone for your confidence become involved. I’m thrilled to report that we’ve been and support. I look forward to continuing to contribute able to give every volunteer (more than 15!!) an appoint- my energies to new initiatives as they arise next year and ment, bringing vital new energy into the committees and beyond, and to adding my small pebble to the growing future leadership. Thank you to all of you who have vol- OHA edifice. unteered. You have not only made my task much easier, Hope to see you in Denver, and don’t forget that the but you help insure the future vitality of the OHA. next call for papers will be mid-January for Cleveland. On the networking front, OHA now has a page on Facebook and is also on LinkedIn and Twitter. We con- Rina Benmayor Remember to vote in the Oral History Association’s annual elections this summer! Registration is open for the OHA conference in Denver, Oct. 12-16 http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/oha2011 Summer 2011 2 OHA Newsletter Exciting changes in store for Oral History Review By Rina Benmayor, OHA President On Jan. 1, 2012, the editorship of the Oral History Review will proposed ideas and institutional com- change hands, and—in a departure for the OHA—an editorial mitments, it made its final recommen- Oteam is coming on board. Kathy Nasstrom of the University dation to the Council at the mid-winter of San Francisco will become the editor and Troy Reeves, of Council meeting in Denver. The con- the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will step into a new tract was accepted, and contracts have position of managing editor. now been signed. Our thanks to Mike, Kathy will be responsible for the overall management and Dan and Susan for designing and con- development of the journal, and Troy will handle its produc- ducting a highly professional and careful tion. In their proposal to edit the OHR, Kathy and Troy iden- search process that now serves OHA as tified their top priorities as: a model. • Strengthening the OHR as the journal of record for the The OHA congratulates and wel- field of oral history in the U.S.; comes Kathy and Troy, our new editors, • Developing a more thoroughly international, interdisci- and looks forward to the exciting new plinary and multimedia journal; developments they have in store. OHA Kathy Nasstrom of the University of • Crafting a journal that meets the needs of the associa- also wants to thank those who submit- San Francisco tion’s diverse constituencies. ted letters of intent and full-blown John Wofford will be continuing as book review editor; proposals. They were each rich, viable Jennifer Abraham Cramer, who has been taking over from and different. We also wish to express Doug Boyd as media review editor, will also continue in her our appreciation to the institutions that role. And in another departure from tradition, a new position stepped forward in support of these is being created specifically to develop the multimedia capacity proposals, and to both the University of the OHR. Doug Boyd will be the OHR’s new digital initia- of San Francisco and the University of tives editor. Stay tuned for more on all of these developments. Wisconsin-Madison, who will be the Customarily, the editorship of the OHR is three-year term, institutional bases the OHR over the renewable for a second term. OHA began its search in the fall next few years. of 2010, as current editor Kim Porter will be finishing her And finally, thanks to our current edi- second term at the end of 2011. The Search Committee con- tor, Kim Porter, for her many years of sisted of outgoing president Mike Frisch, Dan Kerr and Susan expert and dedicated service to the OHR McCormick. and to the field. She will be handing Troy Reeves, of the University of The committee received several very serious and worthy over a solid Review that nourishes oral Wisconsin-Madison. proposals. After several rounds of conversations regarding historians worldwide.
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