Steven Palmer reflects on Brian Purnell's workshop, which explored questions about when and where oral historians should enter products of oral history. This talk took place on Thursday, November 6, 2014.
Read MoreThe Power of Editing
Check out Leonard Cox's reflection on Luke Gerwe's presentation about Voice of Witness and cultivating oral history networks.
Read More[Workshop Reflection] Influences & Ideas: An Interviewing Autobiography with Sady Sullivan
To ask questions in oral history is not just to ask about someone’s life as a whole, but their plural lives across personal and public globes. The field is based on going beyond the surface of the present, and exploring the biographical basis for individual motion and motivation.
Read MoreOne Take on Oral History and (International Human Rights) Litigation
I recently published an article—available here —in which I argued that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should create a public interviewing guide. The ICC should do so because it has a well-recognized statutory duty to protect those who put themselves at risk on account of the ICC’s work, and ICC interviewers put themselves at risk.
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