Present in the Next Anti-Oppression and Decolonial Workshop Series!

We invite proposals for sessions in our third series of Anti-Oppression and Decolonial Oral History Workshops.

In this series we are developing and amplifying approaches to oral history that center anti-oppression and its intersections with decolonization, racial justice, and disability justice. You can read more about the series so far here.

We are looking for people (academics, artists, practitioners, oral historians, etc) to facilitate events focused on anti-oppression and decolonial approaches to oral history. These events will take place on Zoom in late fall and winter 2021-22, days and times can be determined with facilitator. Proposals are due August 1, 2021.

Rates for compensation will depend on the kind of event you want to host and your structural position - we are using an equity budgeting framework which can be found here.

For example, for a three hour interactive workshop we are asking instructors to self identify as either a full-time salaried employee who should receive a $500 honorarium or a freelancer who should be paid a $1200 fee for service. This reflects the fact that freelancers have additional expenses (health insurance, equipment, office space, self-employment taxes) to do the same work as salaried employees. Facilitators will be expected to create materials to advertise their event and participate in at least one conversation among facilitators before the series begins. Facilitators can choose to have their event recorded and shared, or not, or to make more fine-grained decisions about recording and sharing.

We are especially interested in events that incorporate a disability justice approach as well as those that are multilingual and/or transnational. We are eager to build on the conversations we began in the 2020-21 events. Events can be for a large, open audience or a more targeted audience. They can be in any format, from interactive workshop to public interview to salon-style conversation. We can budget for interpretation and other resources to make events accessible.

You may submit multiple event proposals if you have more than one idea, and we invite proposals with co-facilitators. 

Proposals will be reviewed by the Advisory Board curating this phase of the series: Nairy AbdElShafy, Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Allison Corbett, Fernanda Espinosa, Sara Sinclair, Francine Spang Willis, and Amy Starecheski.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Rebecca McGilveray at rlm2203@columbia.edu or visit the OHMA site.