Fall 2015 | Oral History and Public Dialogue
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Fall 2015
September 24, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Roots and Fruits of Activism in Washington Heights and New York City
With Laura Altschuler, Sixto Medina, and Rob Snyder
Since the 1950s few topics have roiled New York City more than public education, with its powerful connections to demands for racial justice, struggles for economic mobility, and changing definitions of community. How do the memories of education activists from Washington Heights help us understand New York City’s “school wars”--their origins, victories, defeats, and lessons for future generations?
October 1, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping and Displacement in San Francisco
With Manissa Maharawal
In this talk Manissa Maharawal the co-director of the Narratives of Displacement Project will discuss how the project was formulated, evolved and changed and the ways in which the project engages practices of radical mapping to engage the public.
October 8, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History and Cross-Cultural Dialogues: Building Bridges with Artistic Projects
With Judith Sloan
Judith Sloan, an artist dedicated to uncovering narratives of individuals and communities often ignored by the mass media, will present excerpts of her performance and radio work, and will discuss strategies and techniques developed in the process of creating theatre and multi-media art projects with new immigrant communities, intergenerational communities and refugee youth.
October 22, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
When Truth Is Justice: Narratives of Black Women and Sexual Assault Across Generations
With Farah Tanis
Join us for a strategic dialogue about the necessities of a Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (BWTRC). The BWTRC is using innovative strategies to engage survivors in healing, collecting narratives, confronting the ever shifting nature of rape culture and sexual violence against Black women in this country and mobilizing Black women around their articulated visions for justice.
November 12, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
This Muslim American Life
With Moustafa Bayoumi
To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. Join Moustafa Bayoumi, who has been interviewing and listening closely to Muslim Americans, in a wide-ranging conversation about what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans.
December 3, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
How You Sing Your Song: Miguel Zenón's Oral History-Based Music
With Miguel Zenón and Erica Wrightson
The project was inspired by the idea of national identity as experienced by the Puerto Rican community in the United States, specifically in the New York area. All the music on the album is written around a series of interviews with several individuals, all of them New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
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