September 12, 2013, 6:00 -8:00 PM

Personal Memories of War and Detention in Croatia from 1941 until Today: Making Private Experiences Public as a Means of Mobilizing Support and Developing Understanding

Darija Maric, Documenta
“Unveiling Personal Memories of War and Detention in Croatia from 1941 until the Present” project affirms the personal memories of witnesses and protagonists of historical events and preserve them from permanent loss. Marić proposes that strengthening personal and social processes of dealing with the past is a necessary precondition for building sustainable peace and stability in Croatian society and developing a tradition of democratic values, especially human rights.

September 26, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM

Listening to New Orleans

Daniel Wolff, Author

October 7, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000-2010

Avner Gvaryahu, Breaking the Silence
Israeli soldiers, the young men and women in the army, know the truth of the occupation better than anyone—they are the people who carry it out. Now, in a monumental book of collective testimony, OUR HARSH LOGIC: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 the soldiers speak out and demand to be heard.

October 24, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM

From Storytelling to Storyweaving: Muriel Miguel, A Retrospective

Muriel Miguel, Spiderwoman Theater
Muriel Miguel, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of New York's Spiderwoman Theater, talks about her fascinating journey from the Indigenous community of 1940's Brooklyn to her pioneering contributions to the current feminist and Indigenous theater movements in the United States, Canada and around the world. Miguel will discuss the development of her Storyweaving methodology, which combines storytelling and performance to bridge the gaps between the epic, the personal, the everyday and the ritual.

November 7, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM

High Rise Stories

With Audrey Petty, Voice of Witness
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.

November 21, 2013 6:30-8:30

The Eros of Oral History

With Jeff Friedman, Dancer, Choreographer and Professor of Dance Studies
How does recording a dialog, in the form of oral history interviews, reflect, refract and enact these erotics? Where can one find movement in the core of interviewing practice? Can this exploration of movement emerge into a philosophy, a poetics, an aesthetic of oral history?

February 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Listening to Central Park North: Making Oral Histories Tangible

With Sewon Chung, New Media Artist and Oral Historian; OHMA alum

February 20, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Monastic Silence and a Visual Dialogue

With Abbie Reese
During this book talk about Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns, Abbie will talk about the process – the negotiations and the exchanges – entailed in this long-term oral history and photography project with an enclosed community that values anonymity and whose members observe monastic silence.

March 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Authority in Practice in Project-Based Research

With Steven High, Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Oral History at the Crossroads rejects the idea that there must be “critical distance” between researchers and their subjects. Instead, this book provides an alternative model to traditional research practice, one where community members “share authority” as equal partners at all stages of a project -- from its inception to its conclusion.

March 27, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

De-centering Authority: Building a Collaborative Oral History of Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn

With Sady Sullivan, Brooklyn Historical Society
Inspired by feminist methodology and participatory action research, CBBG is designed to be responsive to the concentric conversations happening among narrators, interviewers, archivists, and the public programming audience, as well as resonating scholarship, activism, and media.

April 11 , 2014

Ann Cvetkovich and Luisa Passerini in Conversation

April 24, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Lost Neighborhood: Making Oral History Central in a Museum Exhibition

With Catherine Charlebois, Montreal History Center
The presentation will explore how the Centre d’histoire de Montréal (CHM) has responded to the curatorial challenges of creating a museum exhibition based mainly on testimonies and how it has worked with documentary specialists to create a unique and engaging way to present the human story behind a critical moment in a city’s history.