Oral History at a Distance Workshop

BUIOH is excited to announce a brand-new online workshop offering: Oral History at a Distance!

August 7 and 14, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Central 
Virtually Hosted
$50 per participant

Purpose and Topics

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from a distance is now an ongoing and necessary approach in the oral historian’s toolkit. Based on the book Oral History at a Distance published by Routledge in June 2024 for the Practicing Oral History series, the experienced team members of Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History will provide a roadmap for adapting traditional best practices and procedures to this new environment while maintaining the standards oral historians hold dear. Workshop leaders will present on the full range of oral history practice—project design, ethical considerations, project management, interviewing, technology, and preservation. While always concerned with how to do remote oral history well, this workshop will also examine the changed dynamics and new considerations of moving from face-to-face projects to distance work. 

Click here to register! Registration closes at 11:59 pm on July 31.

Workshop Leaders

Your instructors are the faculty and staff members of Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History who co-authored Oral History at a Distance:

Steven Sielaff serves as senior editor and collection manager for the Baylor University Institute for Oral History, editor of Sound Historian, managing editor of H-OralHist, and associate director of the Oral History Association. He is coauthor of several OHA publications including Remote Interviewing Resources, Archiving Oral History, and Oral History Metadata and Description.

Stephen M. Sloan directs the Institute for Oral History and is a Professor of History at Baylor University. He also serves as executive director of the Oral History Association. His publications include the coedited Listening on the Edge and Oral History and the Environment.

Adrienne A. Cain Darough, MLS, CA, serves as assistant director for the Baylor University Institute for Oral History and secretary-treasurer for the Texas Oral History Association. Her research interests include ethical and legal considerations for oral history as well as community commemoration through oral histories.

Michelle Holland serves as editor for the Baylor University Institute for Oral History, where she oversees transcript workflow and manages editorial student workers. She is also a rotating editor for H-OralHist and coeditor of Tattooed on My Soul: Texas Veterans Remember World War II.

Format

This six-hour workshop is divided into two sessions, each presented on a weekday morning, with a week between sessions. We allow ample time for questions and comments at the end of each session. Workshop participants will be able to access the full text of Oral History at a Distance via a free e-book reader, which will also include case studies, sample forms and documents related to oral history.

Online Connection

The class comes to you through the Zoom web conferencing interface. With a computer and an Internet connection and using your computer's audio capabilities and a microphone, you can join the class, hear the lectures, ask questions, exchange text messages, and share in the discussion. This online workshop requires some preparatory reading on your part, and we will ask registrants in between sessions to participate in a short survey about their own experience with remote oral history projects. All readings and resources are provided to registrants through an online file sharing system from about two weeks before the workshop through two months after the workshop. Recordings of the two workshop modules will also be available for two months after the workshop.