2020 OHMAR and SHFG Conference Schedule – Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education

**Please note some events on the schedule have links to additional information and registration pages**

Friday, March 13

8:30 am Registration Open
9 – 10:30 amSession 1
Panel 1: The Pittsburgh Refugee Stories Oral History Project: African Refugees Tell Their Story
Panel 2: Oral History and Memory
10 am – 12 pmTour: National Conservation Training Center
11 am – 1 pmOHMAR Awards Lunch and Business Meeting
1:15 – 2:45 pmSession 2
Panel 1: Emerging Professionals
Panel 2: Telling Their Stories: Using Diplomats’ Oral Histories for Research and Public Exhibits
Panel 3: Women’s Role in War
Panel 4: Oral History of Communities
3 – 4:30 pmSession 3
Panel 1: Wars, Threats, Insurrections
Panel 2: Agency History, Institutional history
Panel 3: Speaking to the Past: Oral History in the Classroom
5 – 6 pmCity Tour
6 – 7 pm Reception

Saturday, March 14

8:30 – 9 am Light Breakfast
9 – 10:30 am Session 4
Panel 1: Always There, Always Working: Voices of Women at the Smithsonian Institution
Panel 2: Oral History Partnerships at the NIH
Panel 3: 150 Years of History in the Department of Justice: A Roundtable
Panel 4: Navigating the Politics of Authority and Legacy in Oral Histories of College and Museum Communities
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Session 5
Panel 1: Stories from the Field: Perspectives on Cultural Resource Management and Preservation
Panel 2: Telling the Story of Representation with Congressional Constituent Correspondence
Panel 3: Claiming Deaf New York Spaces
Panel 4: Oral History: Perspectives from Federal Practitioners Workshop
12:30 – 2 pmSHFG Business Meeting and Lunch (SHFG Only)
2:15 – 3:45 pmSession 6
Panel 1: Telling Our Own Untold Stories: Oral Histories of the National Park Service
Panel 2: Stories from the Roosevelt Administration
Panel 3: Current Trends in Federal History: Examples from the Executive Branch
Panel 4: U.S. Naval Academy Oral History Project: The Class of 57′ in Vietnam
4 – 5:30 pmSHFG Awards Ceremony and Trask Lecture
6 – 8 pmReception at the Bavarian: Registration required for OHMAR attendees