"Humbling Moments" at the Oral History Association Meeting
While I wait in the airport for my husband to finish running a half marathon and then drag himself to come get me, it's a good time to write a quick post about the 2014 Oral History Association Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. It was my first OHA meeting. Seasoned oral historians and experts on reflection and analysis of the interview process Stacey Zembrzycki and Anna Sheftel invited me to participate in a roundtable conversation on humbling moments because of my insistence on discussing failure in community collaborations more openly last spring at the 2014 National Council on Public History annual meeting . The panel also included the trailblazing feminist oral historian Sherna Berger Gluck and Janis Thiessen , a thoughtful and critical historian of Canadian labor, business and religion. We had really good attendance and a remarkably rich and flowing conversation, given the fact that there were about forty people in the room.