The Oral History Section is pleased to announce that our section business meeting will take place on July 31, 11am EST. Registration details coming soon!
We invite you to submit proposals for the business meeting addressing the presentation topic: "Not Even in Death Do We Part." Inspired by a recent panel at the Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting, speakers will share how death, grieving, and legacy concerns inform their work managing oral history projects and collections. Broadly speaking, presentations should focus on experiences managing relationships and oral history materials during and long after the lives of participants. Topics may include: working with interviewees, donors, and families to process interviews (or emotions); how archivists can better understand their relationships and obligations to narrators; strategies and boundaries for supporting these individuals; and the hidden or emotional labor essential to engaging in these aspects of our work.
Proposals should be one to two paragraphs in length. Presentations should be no longer than ten minutes. Please email proposals by Wednesday, June 25 to Steering Committee Member Patrick Dagliaris at patrick.daglaris@okstate.edu.
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Anu Kasarabada
Archivist/Oral Historian
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
akasarabls@gmail.com------------------------------