Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 | Relating Oral History
Oral history is knowledge formed in relationship. This year we plan to explore how oral historians have centered relationship in their work, how oral history processes can change how we relate to each other and to the past, and what it means to relate or retell an oral history to new audiences.
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Thursday Evening Event Series 〰️
Fall 2021
September 30, 2021, 7-8:30pm
“Tell Me About That World” Speculative Archives and Black Feminist Listening Practices
ONLINE with Taylor Thompson
How can we build more expansive and rigorous frameworks for imagining sustainable, loving, and liberatory futures? Taylor Thompson believes one strategy is learning to listen to each-other's dreams with a deliberate, embodied practice.
October 21, 2021, 7-8:30pm
Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993
ONLINE with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman, with her collaborator Jim Hubbard, started the ACT UP Oral History Project in 2001. They hoped that the raw data they created by interviewing 188 members of ACT UP over 18 years would eventually be interpreted by academics. But instead, false histories emerged crediting a handful of individuals with the work of hundreds.
October 28, 2021, 7-8:30pm
Making Meaning through Relationality in an Oral History Project: Amplifying Latino Immigrant Workers Voices in the Pandemic
ONLINE with María Islas-López, History Colorado, and Centro Humanitario
Presenters will reflect on what it has meant to relate to each other, themselves and their contexts of action through the process of recording, sharing, and amplifying under-heard voices.
March 24, 2022, 7-8:30 pm (re-scheduled)
Co-Documenting Queer Performances and Experiences in Mexico
ONLINE with Dr. Isabel Machado
Explore the challenges and responsibility when conducting an oral history project without institutional support and restraints as an outsider-ally to a historically marginalized community and as a fan.
November 13, 2021, 7-8:30pm (re-scheduled)
Oral History and “the Keepers of Memory”
ONLINE with Indira Chowdhury
What kind of knowledge do we encounter when we conduct oral history interviews within diverse cultures of orality? Do cultures that are often non-literate and primarily oral offer us new insights not only into the topics being explored but also into the nature of our practice as oral historians?
December 2, 2021, 7-8:30pm
A Conversation with Tommy Orange
ONLINE with Tommy Orange
Award-winning Cheyenne-Arapaho novelist Tommy Orange will discuss the role of oral history, documentary, and storytelling in There There as well as his novel-in-progress on Indian Boarding Schools.
Spring 2022
January 27, 2022, 7-8:30pm
Separated: Central American Families, Migration, and State Violence
With Fanny Julissa García and Nara Milanich
Explore lessons learned in the course of an oral history project with Central American families.
February 3, 2022, 7-8:30pm
Lessons in Relationship Building from a Participatory Oral History Project
With Lynn Lewis
Think about oral history relationship intention via project design and structure by using lessons learned from the Picture the Homeless Oral History Project.
February 10, 2022, 7-8:30pm
Do the Dead Care About Releases?
With Dr. Kimberly Springer
How does transparency around personal ethical positioning, non/religious or spiritual non/beliefs, and ethical obligations of the field translate to whether legacy oral histories should be opened, remain closed (kicking the can down the road) or deaccessioned (destroyed)?
February 24, 2022, 7-8:30pm
Telling and Preserving Disabled Stories
With Gracen Brilmyer, Alice Wong, and Liú Méi-Zhì Bransfield Chen
How do disabled people tell their/our own stories and re/shape the ways that they/we are documented? And how might capturing and preserving disabled narratives, in turn, shape the ways they/we want to be remembered?
April 21, 2022, 7-8:30pm
Quilombola Women and Transformations in the Anti-Racist Struggle in Brazil
With Gracen Brilmyer, Alice Wong, and Liú Méi-Zhì Bransfield Chen
The presentation explores the historical process of visibility and recent recognition of the role of quilombola women in the struggle for land, whose actions have expanded the repertoire of the anti-racist confrontation, as well as the projects of democracy in the country.
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