A Taste of Memory

July 13, 2021 Incite Institute at Columbia University

Two kids with their grandmother sitting next to the table, full of traditional Chinese New Year snacks.

Why are food memories so powerful? What exactly does it mean when people talk about food? Resonating with the recent OHMA workshop with Storm Garner for her Queens Night Market Vendor Stories and Oral History Project, OHMA student Nina Zhou shares an example of how food memories are curated on documentary media.

Talking Knots: Decolonizing Oral History through Alternative Methods of Memory Transmission

December 19, 2018 Admin

In this blog post, OHMA student Caroline Cunfer reflects on colonized ideas of history and record-keeping, and how as oral historians we can reconsider and expand our processes of memory transmission to engage in ways that are natural and meaningful to the communities we are working with.

Time & Memory in Exhibit and Installation Work: A Conundrum

July 3, 2017 Incite Institute at Columbia University

In this article, Monica Liuting (2016) writes about her installation for the Inside Voices: An Oral History Exhibition in April 2017. Here we see her struggle with the question about how to represent place, memory, and the passage of time in her exhibit.