Present & accounted for

Just found out yesterday that my colleague Brenda Martin and I are going to be presenting at the National Association for Interpretation’s national workshop in Portland, Oregon this November. We’ve got a 2-hour session and will be presenting on the subject of “Sustaining the Circle of Life Through Oral Tradition.” I was going to use my segment to talk about oral history and documentary film, but with the current direction of my explorations, I think I’m going to be talking quite a bit about digital history and whatnot too. By that time I should have a very workable demonstration website based on our Soapstone oral history project materials.

The last time I presented at a conference was 1990 or 1991, I can’t remember which, in Orlando, at the IEEE Professional Communication confab. I think this one will be a whole lot more fun (because for one thing, I promise you, I ain’t gonna be wearing no suit).