Spring 2015 | Oral History, Health and Medicine
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Spring 2015
February 5, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
After Depression: Reflections on Oral and Written Personal Narrative as Archive of Feelings
With Ann Cvetkovich
This session will be an informal talk and discussion reflecting on the connections between my use of memoir in Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) and oral history in An Archive of Feelings (2003) as genres of public feeling.
February 26, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Stories of Environmental Danger: A Collective Approach
With Christopher Sellers
Oral historians have long aimed to recover memories shared by many in a community, yet in practice most of us work one-on-one, with a single interlocutor. What happens if we invite in multiple interviewees, even a representative slice of the community whose history is at stake?
March 5, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Bodies, Embodiment, and the Experience of Passion: What Tango Dancers Can Teach Us
With Kathy Davis
Drawing upon my research with people who are passionate about dancing Argentine tango, I will explore how they make sense of this passion – a passion which is highly embodied, attached to strongly-felt emotions, and often implicated in unexpected and sometimes dramatic biographical transformations.
March 12, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History with Vulnerable Populations: The Schizophrenia Oral History Project
With Lynda Crane and Tracy McDonough
While the purpose of conducting oral history is to document the verbal telling of experiences by a group of individuals, what do you do when those individuals have fluctuating cognitive capabilities and, because of this, have experienced stigmatization and exploitation in the past?
March 26, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Perpetual Handmaidens: Creating Knowledge in the Shadows
With Ronald Doel
In this workshop, we will review the stories of women in science (broadly defined) in the mid-twentieth century, utilizing recent collections of interviews that include not only women researchers but the science-trained (but non-employed) spouses of male scientists. How did women scientists stake out claims for their achievements?
April 2, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Stories I Skipped: Narratives of Care, Narratives of War
With Alessandro Portelli
We all agree that oral history is an art of listening, but we do not always listen to everything with the same intensity. It was precisely because these were the stories Portelli skipped in transcribing that he began to wonder whether there was a relationship between the stories men tell about being in the service and the stories women tell about taking care of relatives in the hospital.
April 16, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Listening With the Whole Body in Mind Feminist Oral History Project
With Ynestra King
The project uses oral history to document the experiences of women living with disabilities to significantly broaden the historical record, particularly in the context of two full decades of presumed progress under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In this workshop, we will look at portions of interviews and discuss questions and issues that arise ethically, practically and politically in engaging in a practice of deeply embodied interviewing.
April 30, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Digital Storytelling as Narrative Shock: New Views on Young Parenting Latinas, Migration, and Family
With Aline Gubrium and Elizabeth L. Krause
This project uses new media to reveal how diasporic youth experience and negotiate sexual health disparities. We prioritize uprooted young parenting Latinas, whose material conditions and cultural worlds have placed them in tenuous positions, both socially constructed and experientially embodied.
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