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Visualizing Oral History…Final Cuts, Many Uses

Southwest Oral History Association 2011 Conference

Los Angeles, CA

March 31‐April 3, 2011

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center Centenary United Methodist Church

Miyako Hotel Los Angeles DISKovery Center

‐PROGRAM‐ http://www.southwestoralhistory.org

Visualizing Oral History…Final Cuts, Many Uses JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY CENTER

244 So. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

300 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 MIYAKO HOTEL LOS ANGELES

328 E. 1ST Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 300 So. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013

DISKOVERY CENTER 353 E. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

(Cover Art Courtesy Susan Kitchens and Linda Ittenbach)

Southwest Oral History Association 2011 Conference Committee First Vice‐President/Conference Chair: Alva Moore Stevenson Program Committee: Jane Collings, Virginia Espino, Anna Gee, Karen Harper, Miguel Juarez, Susan Kitchens, Joyce Marshall Moore Program Formatting: Virginia Espino, Karen Harper, Susan Kitchens, Amy Luke Web Masters: Linda Ittenbach, Susan Kitchens

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Co‐Sponsored by: Family Oral History Using Digital Tools: familyoralhistory.us Historical Society of Long Beach: www.hslb.org UCLA Center for Oral History Research: oralhistory.libary.ucla.edu UCLA Department of Special Collections: www.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/researchlibrary/index.cfm Office Supplies donated by Janet Lim

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‐ SOHA 2011 Conference at a Glance ‐ Thursday, March 31 ‐ Registration and Workshop ‐ DISKovery Center

Friday, April 1

9:00am ‐ 5:00pm Digital Audio Production Conducted by Susan A. Kitchens 6:00pm ‐ 8:00pm Free Admission to MOCA and the Japanese American National Museum

Saturday, April 2 ‐ SESSIONS ‐ Japanese American Cultural & Community Center 8:15am ‐ 4:00pm Registration 9:00am ‐ 5:00pm SESSIONS 9:00am ‐ 10:30am SESSION I 1. Land, Water and Environmental Activism in the Southwest ‐ Room 203 2. New Terrains in Oral History ‐ Garden Room A 3. Women's Untold Stories: Food Production, Curriculum Building and the Appalachian Diaspora ‐ Garden Room B 10:30am ‐ 10:45am BREAK 10:45am ‐ 12:15pm SESSION II 4. Re‐conceptualizing the Past: The Poetics and Politics of Latina Oral History ‐ Garden Room A 5. Keeping the Flow, Nature and the Built Environment ‐ Gardena Room B 6. Oral Histories and Archives ‐ Room 203 12:30pm ‐ 1:45pm AWARDS LUNCHEON / SILENT AUCTION ‐ Garden Room A 1:45pm ‐ 3:15pm SESSION III 7. Celebrating Schools: Local and Global Stories ‐ Cultural Room 8. Screening Oral Histories ‐ Garden Room B 3:15pm ‐ 3:30pm BREAK 3:30pm ‐ 5:00pm SESSION IV 9. Bracero Oral History Project at CSU Channel Islands ‐ Cultural Room 10. Visualizing Oral History: Theory and Practice in a Secondary School Setting ‐ Garden Room A 11. African American Identity in the Southwest ‐ Garden Room B 5:00pm ‐ 5:30pm SILENT AUCTION, pay and pick up Saturday Evening ‐ Dinner on your own. Join affinity groups, if you choose.

Sunday, April 3 ‐ PLENARIES ‐ Miyako Hotel 8:00am Registration 8:00am ‐ 9:00am Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast 9:00am PLENARIES 9:15am ‐ 10:45am Performance by SOHA Oral History and Performance Group 11:00am ‐ 12:30pm Closing Plenary: The Future of Oral History by Horacio Roque‐Ramirez , UCSB Discussants: Dionne Espinoza, CSULA, and Ali Igmen, CSULB

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8:30am ‐ 4:00pm Registration ‐ Centenary United Methodist Church 9:00am ‐ 5:15pm Digital Video Production Workshop ‐ DISKovery Center Conducted by Richard Kinney Oral History and Performance Workshop ‐ Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Social Hall Conducted by the SOHA Oral History and Performance Working Group 9:00am ‐ Noon Documenting Memories: An Introduction to Oral History Techniques ‐ Room 203 Conducted by Virginia Espino Self Publishing a Hardbound Book (with Color Photos) ‐ Room 201 Conducted by Randy Sakamoto Noon ‐ 1:15pm LUNCH on your own 1:15pm ‐ 3:00pm Using Project Management for Successful Projects ‐ Room 203 Conducted by Marie Chung The Essentials of a Well‐Recorded Interview ‐ Room 201 Conducted by Bob Wayne 3:00pm ‐ 3:15pm BREAK 3:15pm ‐ 5:00pm Alternatives to Transcription: The Summary Method ‐ Room 201 Conducted by Kaye Briegel Project Management for Community Oral History Projects ‐ Room 203 Conducted by Nancy MacKay 5:15pm ‐ 8:15pm SOHA Welcome Reception: Centenary United Methodist Church Light Refreshments ‐ Open to the Public ‐ Public RSVP: 1‐818‐275‐4330 6:00pm ‐ 8:15pm Film Screenings Who Killed Vincent Chin? by documentary filmmaker Renee Tajima‐Pena, short Machinima film: The MIS: Bridge to a New Japan by Go for Broke National Education Center, Randall Fujimoto and Nick Miletic; Hogoz, serial internet dramatization by John Powers.

SOHA SPONSORS:

ACCOMMODATIONS: The Miyako Hotel Los Angeles, 328 E. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213‐617‐2000) offers a terrific rate of $99. You may upgrade to an executive room at no additional charge. Send an email to [email protected]

Parking at The Miyako Hotel: Hours of operation 6 am ‐ 3 am, $18.00 + 10% Tax for hotel registered guests. $2.00 each 20 min for visitors up to $18.00. No in and out privileges. TRANSPORTATION: Los Angeles International Airport: Flyaway Buses: http://bit.ly/LaxFlyaway Metro Buses: http://socaltransport.org/tm_pub_start.php Link for Maps and other information: http://bit.ly/LittleTokyoMaps PARKING: Check signs carefully. Rates vary. Thursday and Friday — DISKovery Center Computer Labs: Early bird rate (before 9:30 am): Little Tokyo Public Parking 319 E. 2nd St. $5. First St. and Central (SE corner) across from Japanese American National Museum $6.50. City of Los Angeles Public Parking Entrance on Temple St. between Alameda and Judge Aiso / San Pedro $8. (behind DISKovery) Friday — Workshops at Centenary United Methodist Church: Free parking in Church lot at 300 S. Central Avenue. Friday ONLY Saturday and Sunday Additional Parking: Joe’s Parking, on San Pedro between 2nd and 3rd Street, almost across the street from the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center. $4 Five Star Parking at 350 E. Second Street, entrance ramp between San Pedro and Central Ave. $4 General Parking: Little Tokyo Shopping Center, 3rd and Alameda Woori Market and other establishments validate 1‐2 hrs free

Visualizing Oral History…Final Cuts, Many Uses

Meeting in Little Tokyo, oral historians will be close to Chinatown, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, The Riordan Central Library, and City Hall among other historical sites. Founded by a multi‐racial group of pobladores in 1781, the city is even more richly diverse today. Los Angeles, as a center of commerce, history, culture and entertainment, offers the perfect location for our thirtieth anniversary conference. Presentations from throughout our Southwest region and beyond will focus on our theme of Visualizing Oral History…Final Cuts, Many Uses.

Many of the sessions and workshops will be geared towards helping attendees learn how oral histories become final products and reach multiple audiences. Also in keeping with the theme, we will offer workshops at the DISKovery Center (a computer lab) providing hands‐on instruction in software tools to process oral histories and create final products. Our popular Introductory Oral History Workshop will be offered at the Centenary United Methodist Church. The Saturday concurrent sessions will be at the lovely Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. Sunday plenary sessions move to the Miyako Hotel. All events are within easy walking distance of each other.

For more information on the conference please email [email protected]

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Performances by SOHA Oral History Performance Group

The Future of Oral History in the 21st Century

8:00 am ‐ 9:00 am REGISTRATION 8:00 am ‐ 12:30 pm MIYAKO HOTEL, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM 328 E. First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

8:00 am ‐ 9:00 am Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast

9:15 am ‐ 10:45 am SESSION V

10:45 am ‐ 11:00 am BREAK

11:00 am ‐ 12:30 pm SESSION VI

Horacio Roque‐Ramirez, Professor of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussants: Dionne Espinoza, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Los Angeles

Ali Igmen, Professor of History and Director of the Oral History Program, California State University, Long Beach CONFERENCE ENDS Thank you for attending.

Sunday, April 3, 2011 PLENARIES

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9:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm DISKovery Center Digital Audio Production Conducted by Susan Kitchens $100 SOHA members $125 non‐members (lunch on your own) This hands‐on workshop will introduce you to basic digital audio editing workflow from sound‐in, processing, to output. Using a sample audio interview, you will conduct basic edits, create an interview index, an audio CD, and an MP3 file which you will post to a web page.

You will receive written and illustrated documentation, and a list of online resources.

Please bring a portable disk drive (USB or firewire) or a USB mini drive (also referred to as USB stick, thumb drive, jump drive, flash drive) with at least 1GB free space. Susan A. Kitchens founded and edits the information and how‐to website, Family Oral History Using Digital Tools (familyoralhistory.us). She is the Computer Press Award‐winning author; is a digital renaissance woman doing design, illustration and writing for print, web, and new media. Thursday Evening, March 31, 2011 ‐ Dinner on your own Japanese American National Museum — 369 E 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 Free admission 5:00 pm‐8:00 pm Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) – 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 – Free Admission 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Moderator: Claytee White, Director,Oral History Research Center at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

11. African American Identities in the Southwest ‐ Garden Room B

Saturday, April 2, 2011

3:15 am ‐ 5:00 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER SESSION IV

Ancestry, Citizenship and Race on Indigenous Borderlands: Narratives of John Taylor and the Black Ute Clan The presentation will include a number of representative stories and examples collected about John Taylor, Kitty Cloud and their descendants. The stories reflect mostly untold experiences that illuminate the construction of race, within a unique racial niche that was created for a small number of Africans living on indigenous borderlands.

L. Greg McAllister, Graduate student in History, Northern Arizona University. The Thornton Family: Self Identity and Place in Society This presentation will focus on the Thornton Family of Nogales Arizona who are bi‐racial African American and Mexican. How do race, language, place, and history inform the Thorntons’ identity? Readings from oral interviews will shed light upon the agency of family members in both their self‐ identity and place in society.

Alva Stevenson, Program Coordinator in the UCLA Department of Special Collections and the Center for Oral History Research. The History of the Cosmos Club The Cosmos is an African‐American social club. It was founded in April of 1946 for the purpose of social and community support for African‐Americans in Los Angeles. This presentation will illustrate how blacks in Los Angeles were subjected to Defacto segregation, yet out this negative experience emerged a strong cohesive community of self‐respecting, upright individuals.

Linden Beckford, Jr. is an independent writer and researcher living in the Los Angeles area.

8:30 am ‐ 4:00 pm REGISTRATION ‐ Centenary United Methodist Church

9:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm DISKovery Center

Introduction to Digital Video Production Conducted by Richard Kinney

$100 SOHA members $125 non‐members (lunch on your own)

This all‐day workshop will introduce you to the normal workflow of editing a video project. Using a sample video of an oral history interview, you will be led through the process of importing, processing, editing, exporting, uploading and posting in a web page as well as burning CD/DVDs for archives.

Software used: FinalCut Express (or iMovie) on Mac OSX. Printouts of screen shots of Windows Live Movie Maker (for Windows 7/Windows Vista) will be included as part of the instruction handouts, to go through the same process using a Windows‐based computer.)

Richard Kinney is the lab coordinator for the Digital Media Center at Pasadena City College. Rich has also worked for many years in multiple aspects of the film industry.

Friday, April 1, 2011

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9:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Social Hall

From Transcript to Script to Performance Facilitators: Jean Maria Arrigo, Ammi Kohn, (Theatre Director, Hector Aristizabel)

Using live performance of scripts in different stages of development, the workshop will both demonstrate and analyze the range of techniques and possibilities in Oral History and Performance.

Silent Auction and Raffle

Saturday 9 am – 5 pm

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center Garden Room

Closing at 5 pm: Pay and Pick‐up 5‐5:30 pm

Help raise funds for scholarships and mini‐grants by bidding on items and buying raffle tickets.

Kimono ensemble, Books, Jewelry, Lifetime Membership, etc.

Moderator: Dr. Kenneth M. Edison

10. Visualizing Oral History: Theory and Practice in a Secondary School Setting Roundtable/Workshop ‐ Garden Room A


3:15 am ‐ 5:00 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ‐ Garden Room A

SESSION IV This panel is formatted like a workshop that will present an overview, descriptive narrative and reflective commentary on two high school student oral history projects. These two oral history projects were carried out as a part of the SEP summer program curriculum at the Polytechnic School, in Pasadena and International Baccalaureate curriculum at the Blair IB Magnet World School in the Pasadena Unified School District.

Presenters from Blair IB Magnet World School, Pasadena Unified School District Dr. Kenneth M. Edison, Teacher; Saul Rico, Social Sciences Department Head; and Nancy Swartz, IB Coordinator, and twelve student scholars.

Saturday Evening: Dinner on Your Own Join Affinity Groups: Sign up at Registration Table or create one: (Oral History and Performance, Oral History and Activism, Community Oral History, Building Trust in Cross Cultural Situations, Family History Projects, etc.)

SOHA Work Ahead, 2011 Composition by Susan Kitchens

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9:00 am ‐ Noon Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 203 Documenting Memories: An Introduction to Oral History Techniques Facilitator: Virginia R. Espino, Interview and Series Coordinator, UCLA Center for Oral History Research This interactive workshop covers all the essentials such as planning, research, equipment, interviewing techniques and legal and ethical issues. Participants will gain an overall understanding of oral history in an archival context; get practical experience in oral history interviewing; establish a fundamental knowledge in the technologies of recording and preservation; develop a basic familiarity with the practical and theoretical underpinnings in the field. Virginia Espino has a Ph.D in History from Arizona State University. Her oral history work includes documenting forced sterilization of Mexican American women in Los Angeles. She is currently recording the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles. Virginia has been doing oral history since she was in high school.


Moderator: Dr. Jose M. Alamillo

9. Bracero Oral History Project at California State University, Channel Islands ‐ Cultural Room

3:15 pm ‐ 5:00 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER SESSION IV This roundtable will discuss how the Brocero History Project can provide many lessons about using oral history to design a museum exhibition. The panelists will also address how the Bracero Project helped to bridge the university with the larger community.

Jose M. Alamillo, Associate Professor and coordinator of Chicana/o Studies.

Erica Jimenez, Maria Salas, Tonia Tolteca, Students.


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9:00 am ‐ Noon Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 201 Self‐Publishing a Hardbound Book (With Color Photos) Facilitator: Randy Sakamoto, Independent Publisher, Community Scholar A beginning to end how‐to covering details, tips, and pros & cons of digital photography, cameras, scanners, family tree software, photo editing software, ink/, paper, /printers, storage, composing a book, and various internet printing services. Randy will address researching family, church, and Japanese American history in the process. Randy Sakamoto has produce many beautiful high quality books for families and institutions with this approach.

Noon ‐ 1:15 pm LUNCH BREAK On Your Own


Moderator: Denise Sandoval, teaches Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge

8. Screening Oral Histories ‐ Garden Room B

1:45 pm ‐ 3:15 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER SESSION III Rough Cut: Challenges of Doing Oral History for Educational Television This presentation will discuss the challenges, roadblocks, as well as the opportunities involved with producing a documentary series titled “1910, the Mexican Revolution in El Paso.” Footage of the project in progress will be presented along with a discussion of how it formulated from idea to near completed project.

Miguel Juarez, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Texas, El Paso From Oral History to a Documentary Film: the Making of Cassandro, El Exotico This presentation will outline the process of making a film about “Los Exoticos” or the Exotic ones. This film won Best Short Documentary at the Short Film Festival in Mexico and received several other prestigious awards.

Michael Ramos‐Araizaga is a 2010 graduate of the Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Howard Citizen: The Man and His Music This presentation will include a discussion of all component parts of this process. This will cover the initial contact with the dance community, SOHA involvement, the creative collaboration, camera work, editing with Final Cut Express and the current status of the project. Time for audience feedback is welcomed.

Sharon Donnan is a native Angelino, retired LAUSD teacher, and co‐author of El Cinto Pitdeado: A Folk Art Tradition of Mexico (Forthcoming).


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1:15 pm ‐ 3:00 pm Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 201 The Essentials of a Well‐Recorded Interview Facilitator: Bob Wayne, Sunburst Recording Topics will include setup procedures and equipment necessary for recording an oral history and for archiving existing oral history recordings to hard drive and CD. Bob will also cover room acoustics, sound isolation and live vs. dead sounding rooms, compression and equalization tutorial, analog and digital formats and their accompanying pitfalls. Bob Wayne has over three decades of professional experience in sound recording, digitization, and archiving. He established Sunburst Recording in 1982.


Moderator: Anna Coor, Educator and Oral Historian, Phoenix, Arizona

7. Celebrating School: Local and Global Stories ‐ Cultural Room

1:45 pm ‐ 3:15 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER SESSION III

A Celebration of Snow Mountain Technical School, Golok Tibet Our celebration of the Snow Mountain Technical School in Golok, Tibet, draws from an oral history of the politically hazardous founding of the school by a Tibetan Buddhist master, video interviews of 21 students, their striking artwork, and a Tibtan Buddhist chant.

John Crigler is an American businessman, musician ,and disciple of the founder of the school, Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche, Abbot of Thubten Chokor Ling Monastery.

Jean Maria Arrigo is a social psychologist and oral historian who specializes in ethics of political and military intelligence. Southern California Story: Seeking the Better Life in Sierra Madre This presentation will examine the use of oral history in the researching of materials during the writing of our award‐winning book, Southern California Story: Seeking the Better Life in Sierra Madre. The process of review and selection criteria specifically relating to these oral histories will be presented.

Michele Zack is an award winning author and is also active in local historical groups and projects including Teaching American History grant projects, the production of Eaton’s Water documentary film, and numerous Asian projects resulting from living in Thailand for 10 years.

Jay Whitcraft is a retired business executive living in Sierra Madre who has devoted most of his retirement to activities surrounding the betterment of the Sierra Madre Public Library and the Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society.

Louise Neiby is a retired nurse practitioner who has worked for the past 10 years on the Sierra Madre Oral History project. She is an active member of the SMHPS Board and currently serves on the Oral History committee as one of its primary resource personnel.

Amy Putnam is a member of the SMHPS Oral History Committee.


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1:15 pm ‐ 3:00 pm Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 203 Using Project Management for Successful Projects Facilitator: Marie Chung, Certified Project Manager Learn how to apply Project Management methods and tools to make your oral history project successful. This workshop will cover how to define the scope and goals of a project, determine who are stakeholders, how to breakdown project tasks, develop a project plan and schedule, manage resources, and assess project risks. Marie Chung is a certified project manager (PMP) with over 20 years of experience in managing projects in the areas of healthcare, construction and information technology.

3:00 pm ‐ 3:15 pm BREAK


Moderator: Stephanie George, Archivist, Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton

6. Oral Histories and Archives ‐ Room 203

10:45 am ‐ 12:15 pm JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER

SESSION II

“What would you say, for the archives?” Mennonites and the Memory of Cesar Chavez Using the techniques of Alessandro Portelli, Jan Assmann, and others, this presentation examines oral history interviews with Mennonite owners of fruit growing and fruit packing companies and Mennonite pastors in California’s San Joaquin Valley. In so doing, it explores questions of power, class, and identity in a closed and conservative religious community.

Dr. Janis Thiessen: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Oral History and Archives Collide: The interplay between oral and documentary sources This presentation will examine the importance of not simply processing, but rather learning from and about a collection to identify potential disjuncture between oral and documentary sources. I will discuss why an oral history interview and the creation of a film for the finding aid was beneficial for this collection as well as ways it could benefit others.

Ashley Sherry, LaDonna Harris Graduate Fellow, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico. Conversations with the Elderly Caregivers are creating fresh relationships with their elderly clients through private oral histories. These special conversations play an important role in the well‐being of the elder and provide a legacy for their families. Learn why care giving professionals are paying attention to the process and its benefits and even incorporating it into their services.

Barbara Tabach, Oral History Research Center, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and co‐author with Polly Clark of LifeCatching: the Art of Saving and Sharing Memories, and a presenter on the healthy benefits of saving personal histories.

12:30 pm ‐ 1:45 pm AWARDS LUNCHEON


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3:15 pm ‐ 5:00 pm Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 201 Alternative to Transcription: The Summary Method Facilitator: Kaye Briegel,Ph.D, Co‐Director, Virtual Oral/Aural History Archives (VOAHA), California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Developed by Sherna Berger Gluck for the Feminist History Resource Project, the Summary Method is used by the Oral History Program at CSULB and the VOAHA at CSULB. This method emphasizes the narration as the primary document while providing searchable content summaries of oral histories. Learn this time saving, cost saving, and intellectually stimulating approach. Dr. Briegel has this method for over two decades with oral history projects. Kaye Briegel has a Ph.D. in History from USC and has worked in oral history research for over three decades including community, business, and institutional projects.


Moderator: Linda Valois, Historian, Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area

5. Keeping the Flow, Nature and the Built Environment ‐ Garden Room B


SESSION II

Find It, Sort It, Compare It, Use It! Managing Multiple Interviews in an Oral History Project Utilizing the archive of Chumash elder, Charlie Cook, this presentation will to demonstrate the process used to bank and retrieve information by showing excel pages of compiled notes, playing audio from the interviews, reading related sections of the story, and showing photos of sites and work in action including a verification meeting with some of the persons who were interviewed.

Dr. Mary Gordon, independent writer and researcher residing in Tucson, Arizona.

Voices from the Wilderness: Incorporating Oral History into National Park Service Planning This presentation uses a project at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks as a case study to explore the value of oral history in the wilderness planning process. Funded through the ranger division, rather than cultural resources, it focuses on the practical applications of oral history.

Alison Marie Steiner, graduate student in history at the University of California, Irvine.

Saving the Stories: Getting the Work, Parks Systems Oral History Projects Linda will give examples of her oral history work and other opportunities for government oral history contract work in the parks systems.

Linda Valois, Historian, Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area.


Check out the Silent Auction and Raffle in Garden Room A. Help raise funds for scholarships and mini‐grants. Closing at 5:00 pm: Pay and Pick‐up 5‐5:30 pm

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3:15 pm ‐ 5:00 pm Centenary United Methodist Church ‐ Rm. 203 Project Management for Community Oral History Projects Facilitator: Nancy MacKay This workshop will examine project management in oral history by breaking the project into three stages: planning, interviewing, and archiving. We will work through each stage using real life scenarios for class exercises. Participants will receive worksheets, templates and checklists that can be adapted to their own oral history projects. The emphasis will be on small, community based oral history projects. Nancy MacKay has coordinated community history projects for over two decades.


Moderator: Dr. Selfa Chew‐Smithart teaches history at the University of Texas at El Paso

4. Re‐conceptualizing the Past: The Poetics and Politics of Latina Oral History ‐ Garden Room A


SESSION II

Capturing the Lives of Arizona's Depression‐Era Latinas through Oral History We will discuss the importance of oral history methodologies when examining Latinas in copper mining towns who experienced the decade of the 1930s. Their stories reveal new and complex interpretations of Arizona's Mexican American experience during the era of the Great Depression.

Dr. Chris Marin is Archivist Professor Emeritus for the Chicana/o Research Collection & Archives at Arizona State University. Protestantism and Community Empowerment in Post World War II Los Angeles Utilizing oral histories with Mexican Americans and Chicana/os, we will outline the some of the social and cultural influences of Protestantism in Los Angeles. Most of what is known about Mexican Protestantism has been mediated by Anglo‐American missionaries, therefore this presentation seeks to demonstrate the meaning that Mexican Americans and Chicana/os give to their personal experience with the Methodist and Baptist religion.

Virginia Espino: Interviewer and Series Coordinator, UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research. Josefina Fierro and the Sleepy Lagoon Crusade, 1942‐1945 Josefina Fierro was a talented businesswoman who was indispensable to the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee because of her influential contacts and promotion and fund‐raising ability. Through interviews, we will examine a major civil rights committee that formed during World War II and shed light on the devastating effects of McCarthyism on civil rights organizations in Southern California.

Carlos Larralde holds a Ph. D. from UCLA and currently works as an independent scholar researching Latino and Latina civil rights.


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5:15 pm ‐ 8:15 pm SOHA WELCOME RECEPTION CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 300 S. Central Ave., LA 90012 LIGHT REFRESHMENTS‐OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RSVP: 1‐818‐275‐4330 Ongoing Viewing: “Hogoz” (pronounced “hoe‐goes”) is serial internet dramatizations which embrace the ups and downs of teenagers behind the barbed wire of a fictionalized World War II‐era concentration camp for Japanese Americans who have been labeled as troublemakers. Creator and blogger, John Powers, will show "Hogoz: 7 April 1943” PROGRAM: 6:00‐8:15 pm

Welcome by SOHA President, Claytee White Historical remarks by Reverend Mark M. Anakagawa on Centenary United Methodist Church Film Screenings:

The MIS: Bridge To A New Japan is an 11‐minute machinima (animated movie) featuring the story of the Military Intelligence Service's role in the occupation of Japan in the aftermath of World War II. The mash up of oral history, historical footage, and video game animation highlights the language and cultural skills of the Japanese Americans involved and is used in lesson plans and educational programs.

Presenters: Randall Fujimoto, is Educational Technologist for the Go For Broke National Education Center. Nick Miletic is a Southern California based filmmaker.

Who Killed Vincent Chin is a hour long Academy Award nominated film that relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. On a hot summer night Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese‐American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail.

Renee Tajima‐Peña is a professor and graduate director of the Social Documentation Program at University of California, Santa Cruz. The documentary filmmaker ’s work addresses Asian American and immigrant/diaspora themes.


Moderator: Julie Bartolotto, Director, Historical Society of Long Beach, CA

3. Women's Untold Stories: Food Production, Curriculum Building, and the Appalachian Diaspora ‐ Garden Room B

9:00 am ‐ 10:30 am JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER

SESSION I Culture, Cooking and Community: Eleni Kyrazis and the Houston Greek Festival Oral histories have a life beyond the archives, and this presentation proposes how historians can use oral histories to analyze themes in cultural history and give back to the community. This paper examines women in immigrant communities through the vehicle of food and food production in family life.

Kristi Roberts: Graduate student in American History at the University of Houston, Texas Powerful Women: Bringing the voices of Oklahoma women legislators to the classroom using oral ‘herstories‘ The Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project adds women in political office between 1907 and 2008 to mainstream Oklahoma history. This presentation describes the project, discusses the processes to develop lesson plans, adhering to the Oklahoma PASS objectives, and the marketing and distribution to teachers across the state.

Latasha Wilson is a visiting oral historian at the Oklahoma History Research Program. Texturing the Urban Migration Experience: Appalachian Women Migrants in Chicago, 1955‐1980 Voices of Appalachian women are at the center of the migration experience to Uptown, Chicago, yet are conspicuously absent from discussions of the southern Diaspora. The personal interview illustrates how Appalachian women responded to the demands of migration and urban life in postwar Chicago.

Roger Guy, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice University of North Carolina, Pembroke.

10:30 am ‐ 10:45 am BREAK


Moderator: Kaye Briegel, Co‐Director of the Virtual Oral/Aural History Archives, CSULB

1. Land, Water and Environmental Activism in the Southwest ‐ Rm. 203

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8:15 am ‐ 4:00 pm REGISTRATION ‐ JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ‐ Basement Level

9:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm SILENT AUCTION and RAFFLE Pay and Pick Up: 5:00 pm ‐ 5:30 pm Garden Room A

SESSION I

Into and Beyond the Museum: Using Multiple Media to Reach Multiple Audiences An overview of how the Ecological Oral Histories Project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) has partnered with the Arizona Historical Society, the Arizona Humanities Council, the National Park Service, and others to broaden the audience for oral history research.

Peter Friederici: Assistant Professor in the Journalism School of Communication, Northern Arizona University. Environmental Activism in Los Angeles Overview of three major trends of Environmental Activism in LA through the lives and contributions. Issues explored include founders of major organizations in the LA area, proponents of alternative environmentally friendly lifestyles and environmental justice advocates.

Jane Collings: Interviewer and Series Editor for UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research. There are Many Sides to a Story: Reconciling Disparate Remembrances of Complex Water Rights Negotiations in Arizona An ongoing project to collect the stories of attorneys and water policy mangers involved in the resolution of Indian water rights claims in Arizona between 1970 and 2004 and explore the process of reconstructing history and analyzing the motives, perspectives, and opinions of multiple stakeholders within a single negotiation.

Dan Killoren: Public History, Arizona State University, SOHA Past President.


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Moderator: Miguel Juarez, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Texas, El Paso

2. New Terrains in Oral History ‐ Garden Room A

9:00 am ‐ 10:30 am JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER

SESSION I

Oral History as Alternative Narratives: Japanese Mexican Expulsion from the U.S./ Mexico Borderlands Utilizing oral history to examine the eviction of the entire Japanese Mexican community from the U.S./Mexico borderlands in 1942 this paper explores the impact of this bi‐national event on the lives, rights, and property of Japanese immigrants and their descendants. These narratives challenge state versions of displacement of the Japanese Mexican transnational community along racial lines and show how oral history can help forge multidimensional perspectives of the Japanese Mexicans experience in the borderlands.

Dr. Selfa Chew‐Smithart teaches history at the University of Texas, El Paso. Oral History as Art: From Mouth to Page, from Page to Stage This presentation examines Brazilian oral history and how it has been used in books, documentary films, CDs and music concerts. Issues to be discussed include concerns about oral history and memory and the aesthetic attributes linked to the artistic treatment of spoken words.

Ricardo Santhiago is an oral history researcher at University of São Paulo, Brazil. “Armed with Our Language, We Went to War/ Nihizaad béé nidahsiibaa’: The Navajo Code Talkers” This presentation will examine the process of researching and writing “Armed with Our Language, We Went to War/ Nihizaad béé nidahsiibaa’: The Navajo Code Talkers”. This book is an edited oral history on the Diné/Navajo Code Talkers who used the Navajo language to pass secret military codes during WWII, while stationed in the South Pacific. For the book, 20 of the remaining 37 or so Code Talkers were interviewed in collaboration with landscape and portrait photographer, Deborah O’Grady, who completed the portrait sessions.

Laura Tohe is a Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.


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