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A an old-fashioned camera lies on top of a stack of books and papers, with a typewriter in the background. (Credit: Wallace Chuck)
To capture the complexity of the coronavirus pandemic, and to honour the voices of the communities most impacted, journalists can draw upon some of the techniques practiced by oral history.
Read MoreCurrent OHMA student Anne Cardenas discusses Patrick Raden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing, and issues of security in oral history and journalism, inspired by Dr. Sam Redman’s April 4 workshop “Oral History and Archives: Voice, Storytelling, and Narrative in Historical Research.”
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Congratulations to Svetlana Kitto (2009), the recipient of our annual OHMA Alumni Conference Travel Award!
At the 2018 Oral History Association conference in Montreal, OHMA alum Svetlana Kitto will participate in both a panel and a roundtable, “Oral History in Dialogue: Community Organizing, New Documentary Work, and Our Changing Practice” and “Writing with Our Narrators' Words: Editing Oral History,” respectively. For the panel, she will give a paper on the dynamic and generative relationship between oral history and journalistic writing. For the roundtable, she will discuss her extensive, critically lauded work turning oral history into politically urgent, emotionally rich narrative writing.
OHMA is excited to support Svetlana’s exciting work in connecting oral history and journalism.
To learn more about Svetlana and her work please visit her professional website at: svetlanakitto.com
Recently, author DW Gibson stopped by OHMA to discuss his book, The Edge Becomes The Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, in which he documents the lives and stories of Brooklynites and others who have an opinion on the increased development in Brooklyn, New York. In this post, Fanny Garcia (2016) reflects on his presentation.
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