[SOA] CFP 2008 Oral History Association meeting in Pittsburgh

[Marjorie McLellan]

*2008 Oral History Association Meeting, "A Convergence of Interests: 
Oral History in the Digital Age"
Pittsburgh, PA

*The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and 
presentations for its 2008 annual meeting to be held October 15 - 19, 
2008 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .

As always, the Program Committee of the OHA welcomes proposals for 
presentations on a variety of topics. In keeping with this year's theme, 
"A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age," the 2008 
Annual Meeting will focus special attention on oral history and digital 
technologies.

Emerging digital technologies continue to expand options for the 
recording, preservation, and use of oral history interviews and other 
historically significant sights and sounds, to expand audiences, and to 
draw together once separate communities of practitioners. In doing so, 
they raise perplexing practical, legal, ethical, and theoretical questions.

For its 2008 meeting, the Oral History Association extends an invitation 
to teachers and students, archivists and librarians, Luddites and media 
theorists, web and exhibit designers, documentary producers and media 
artists, ethnographers, family and public historians, program officers 
and curators, scholars from a broad and growing range of disciplines, 
social and political activists, and others interested in sharing their 
experiences, projects, concerns, ideas, and questions about oral 
history. We encourage researchers studying the Ohio Valley , technology, 
industrialization and deindustrialization, and labor history to submit 
proposals. In recognition of the important work taking place outside the 
United States , we also hope to see a significant international presence 
at the meeting.

In the spirit of this meeting, the OHA Program Committee encourages 
presenters to consider a variety of formats and presentation methods, 
including traditional panels with chair and discussant, roundtables, 
performances, listening and viewing sessions, workshops, and poster 
sessions.

Once one of the United States ' great industrial metropolises, 
Pittsburgh has been a national and international center of technological 
innovations-including the home of the nation's first radio station- 
industrial processes, and intense struggles between capital and labor. 
Battered by deindustrialization in the late 1900s, the city has 
undergone an urban renaissance and today offers a rich concentration of 
museums, historic sites, universities and colleges, and an active arts 
scene. The Oral History Association is fortunate to be meeting in 
Pittsburgh during celebrations of the 250 th anniversary of the city's 
founding.

Proposal format: submit four copies of the proposal. For full sessions, 
submit a title, a session abstract of not more than two pages, and a 
one-page vita or resume for each participant. For individual proposals, 
submit a one-page abstract and a one-page vita or resume of the 
presenter. Each submission must be accompanied by a cover sheet, which 
can be printed from the OHA Web site: www.dickinson.edu/oha . Click here 
for COVER SHEET.

Proposals may be submitted by mail, or email, and should be postmarked 
or sent by January 15, 2008. Submit proposals directly to the OHA office 
at the address below.

E-mail attachments must include the "cover sheet" in electronic form and 
must be one complete document in Microsoft WORD format. Please do not 
send separate attachements. Attachments should be sent to 
oha at dickinson.edu . Should you not receive email confirmation by 
February 5th, please contact the OHA office to make sure your submission 
has been received.

Queries may be directed to:
Charles Hardy III, First Vice President
chardyIII at wcupa.edu
(610) 436-3329

Marjorie McLellan
marjorie.mclellan at wright.edu
(937) 775-2162 Donna DeBlasio dmdeblasio at ysu.edu (330) 941-3158 
Proposals should be sent by January 15, 2008, to: Madelyn Campbell Oral 
History Association Dickinson College P. O. Box 1773 Carlisle , PA 17013 
Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046 Email: oha at dickinson.edu 
For courier service add: Holland Union Building , College and Louther 
Streets