Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Thursday Evening Event Series 〰️
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Fall 2012
September 18, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence
With Voice of Witness
Students of the Oral History Master of Arts program had the chance to sit down with Max and Sibylla for a Q&A session which covered several fascinating topics, including how they started this project, their interviewing methodologies, the book editing process, and their responsibilities to their narrators.
October 4, 2012 7:00 - 9:00 PM,
“We’d Rather Not Be on the Rolls of Relief”: Folk Music as/and Oral History
With Michael Frisch and the 198 String Band
This workshop will explore the folks’ music “as” oral history, as well as the resonances between performed music and oral history in a multi-media format. The band will discuss these remarkable songs, lyrics, photo images, and audio documents and how they can be leveraged most productively to link history to contemporary issues and resonances.
October 18, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Learning From the Old School: Oral History and Historical Production in New York City's Squatting Communities
With Amy Starecheski
In this talk Starecheski will compare three very different contexts in which activists talk about the past with the aim of promoting and supporting new activist projects: a walking tour of squatted buildings, a series of political education lectures organized by a direct action group, and an oral history project aimed towards producing a book.
November 15, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Interviewing Interviewers about Interviewing: The Epistemology of Oral History
With Andrea Dixon
Dixon grapples with social epistemology, which, applied to oral history, amounts to what oral historians assume is true about social interactions (like the interview) and the study of whether these assumptions can be proven true. Dixon discussed the matter of narrative depending on coherence (or the allowance of incoherence) as well as the dependence of intersubjectivity on subjectivity, performance on language and memory on self.
December 6, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The Newtown Creek Community Health and Harms Narrative Project: Oral History and Public Health
With Suzanne Snider
Suzanne Snider who will discuss the use of community-based oral history to politicize victims of environmental injustice and to establish a collaborative public health report and map, based on the testimony of long-term residents in three adjacent New York City neighborhoods.
Spring 2013
January 31, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Surfacing Solutions: Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence
With Alisa del Tufo
In 1991, Del Tufo launched an oral history project with battered women who had children to develop a better understanding of the ways they felt help could be provided. The insights surfaced through these stories have influenced the development of programs, research, policy, movement building and advocacy. In this workshop she will share the history of this work and some of the sea changing ideas that have grown from it.
February 14, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Search, Explore, Connect: Enhancing Access to Oral History
With Doug Boyd
The digital age has greatly enhanced opportunities and possibilities for a single oral history interview or project to be globally distributed and, potentially, have a major impact on the historical record. Boyd will discuss new models for engaging and empowering users of oral history in a digital environment.
February 21, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Everybody is a Stranger When They First Arrive: Refugees’ Experiences in America.
With Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman, Voice of Witness
Join a presentation on the role of oral history in contemporary human rights and photojournalism. The editors will discuss and read from their new book, in which evocative images are coupled with moving testimonies from men and women who have resettled in the United States from Burundi, Iraq, Burma, Somalia, Bhutan, and Ethopia.
March 14, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Uncovering Hidden Histories: The Making of Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente!
With Lillian Jiménez
This workshop will discuss the context surrounding the creation of “Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente!” a documentary on the work of Puerto Rican educator and visionary leader, Dr. Antonia Pantoja. Jiménez will present the methodologies utilized in conducting the oral histories of Pantoja’s collaborators as well as adversaries.
April 11, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Both Our Voices: A Feminist Relational Approach to Life History Narratives of Previously Juvenile Justice Involved LGBTQ Young Adults
With Sarah Mountz
This workshop explores the uniquely embodied and relational nature of storytelling and story receiving in Life History Interviews conducted with LGBTQ Young Adults (age 18-25) who have previously been incarcerated in girls detention facilities in New York State.
April 25, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Movement Creates Museum: the Activist Beginnings of Weeksville Heritage Center
With Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott will be discussing the role and possibilities of oral history for understanding activism and social change in the founding and expansion of a public history center. Weeksville Heritage Center’s (WHC) oral history program began in the 1970s alongside the rediscovery and reclamation of a “lost” history.
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