Spring 2016 | Oral History and Public Dialogue
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Thursday Evening Event Series 〰️
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Spring 2016
February 4, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Creating the Urban Canvas: Land Art on a Brooklyn Street Corner
IN-PERSON with Laura Barnett and Alfred Evans
This artistic collaboration between Brooklyn natives Laura Barnett and Alfred Evans uses oral history as a means of documenting ephemeral public art. The process of collaboration made both artists consider whether the life history approach, standard for oral historians, was indeed ‘best practice.’
February 18, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Performance into Policy: Doing Justice by Oral Histories of Place and Displacement
IN-PERSON with Della Pollock and Hudson Vaughan
In this talk we will briefly address the course of moving from oral history in and as performance towards policy intervention and will introduce basic elements of our change model in practice, including the response-ability of the oral history listener, an abundance-based approach to community development, and the nature of community-first organizing.
March 3, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Reckoning with 100 Years of Violence on the US/Mexico Border: Methods for Developing a Public Dialogue
IN-PERSON with Monica Muñoz Martinez
From 1910 to 1920, vigilantes, U.S. soldiers, and Texas Rangers killed thousands of innocent Mexicans in one of the least remembered, and yet largest episodes of racial violence and civil unrest in American history. The centennial of this peak of violence is upon us. Monica Muñoz Martinez is joining scholars, Texas residents, museums, and cultural institutions that are making efforts to commemorate state sanctioned violence in Texas.
March 24, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History in the Age of Black Lives Matter
IN-PERSON with Paul Ortiz
Oral historians work today in a social context of rising economic inequality, mass incarceration and neo-liberalism. Ideas of the public good are being subsumed in favor of privatization and gentrification. What role(s) can oral history and story-telling play in such a crisis era?
April 14, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Who Gets to Tell the Story?: A Fresh Approach to Collaborating with Activists to Create Archives
IN-PERSON with Wesley Hogan
Those on the margins need to tell stories on their own terms, and make the key decisions about how those stories are collected, archived, contextualized and disseminated to the public. This talk will examine how we’ve piloted this in a multi-year collaboration between the civil rights group SNCC and CDS, “The SNCC Digital Gateway: Learning From the Past, Organizing for the Future, Making Democracy Work.”
April 21, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Big Prisons, Small Towns: Stories from the Prison Public Memory Project
IN-PERSON with Tracy Huling, Quintin Cross, and Brian Buckley
The Prison Public Memory Project works with communities and collaborating scholars and artists to discover, preserve, interpret, and present the history of prisons, honor the memories of former prisoners and prison workers, and utilize the past to imagine a future without prisons.
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