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Twenty-five years after the riot, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) has launched Voices of Crown Heights, in an effort to listen beyond the din of riot-based histories for the unheard voices and overlooked narratives in BHS’s existing oral history collections, and through new oral histories of previously overlooked people and communities in Crown Heights. Using BHS’s Voices of Crown Heights as an example, this presentation will explore what it means to be a listening institution that collects, preserves, curates, and presents oral histories; and how programming that cultivates public listening to diverse histories and experiences can create opportunities for civic listening.
Join us for an Oral History M.A. program open house on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in Knox Hall 509! Please review our admissions page for further information and RSVP to our Eventbrite page.
