Fall 2014 | Oral History, Health and Medicine
Thursday Evening Event Series
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Fall 2014
September 11, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History Meets Dementia: A Staged Reading of the Play Timothy and Mary
With Sam Robson
This workshop features a staged reading of Sam Robson’s one-act play Timothy and Mary, based on the oral histories of two people Sam interviewed for his thesis, which comprises a series of short pieces that explore dementia using oral history.
September 18, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Seeking Witness: Voice of Witness and Building an Oral History Network
With Luke Gerwe
In this talk, managing editor Luke Gerwe describes some of the strategies Voice of Witness staff and editors have used to build and maintain the network necessary to sustain oral history projects that require many years to assemble. Focus will be on the book series’ two most recent titles, Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (May 2014) and Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation (November 2014).
October 2, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
A Radical Archive of Be(long)ing
With Teiji Okamoto
In this workshop, experienced public health professional Tei Okamoto will present two collaborative projects exploring the intersections of oral history and public health. Each project presents a radical archive of feelings, queerness, alternative kinships and long-term effects of and responses to public health safety nets and messaging.
October 16, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Narrative Humility: Medical Listening and Oral History
With Sayantani DasGupta
Oral history practices and oral history theory can help guide narrative medicine practitioners in not only listening to embodied stories, but paying attention to (and challenging) the sounds of our own power.
November 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Can the Oral Historian Speak?
With Brian Purnell
As oral historians, we spend a great deal of time listening, recording, writing, editing and - - speaking. We actually speak a lot. But rarely do our words become part of the final products – the books, the articles, the digital videos, the websites, the exhibits – that our dialogues with subjects help create.
November 13, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History and Intellectual Disability: Navigating Authority, Authorship, and Advocacy
With Nicki Berger
“Nothing About Us Without Us,” a slogan of the disability rights movement, echoes the ethos of oral history, when we strive to “know with” rather than “know about” the communities whose narratives we record, preserve, interpret and share. In this session, Nicki Pombier Berger will discuss the work she did for her OHMA thesis, a multimedia collection of stories from self-advocates with Down syndrome.
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