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October 1 (9:00AM) - 3 (3:00PM), 2020
Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting
Virtual
The Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting will be held virtually on October 1-3, 2020.
Registration is now open!
Click here to register online, or click here to download a form to register by mail.
The online Annual Meeting will include social time to network with colleagues, the presentation of this year’s Outstanding Achievement Awards (nominations due August 1!), and lots of great sessions on topics ranging from creating video tours to self-guided tours at house museums to how to research a historic house to reacting to a disaster in collections storage—and beyond! We would like to thank our existing presenters for being flexible and ready to present at an online conference.
When the Ohio Local History Alliance Education Committee picked “History is Happening Now” as the theme for our 2020 conferences, we never expected that it would be quite so on-the-nose. Since mid-March, it has been impossible to ignore that we’re living through moments that historians will study, write, and create exhibits about. Our conference theme was designed to encourage us all to think about the relevance of our work and how we can be better at working collaboratively on a historical narrative that includes everyone in our communities. There is a thread of these sessions running through the conference, including presentations on African-American community archives, working with American Indian communities, oral history projects, women’s history, and working with youth volunteers, as well as a collaborative discussion of “Relevance in a World with Bigger Problems.” To keynote this thread, we are very excited to welcome Melanie Adams of the Anacostia Community Museum as this year’s plenary speaker, sponsored by Ohio Humanities.
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