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OHMA Thursday Evening Event Series

Review student reflections of each of our Thursday Evening events on the blog here.
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FALL 2023 | Experiments in Oral History Methodology

Oral history as a research tool has been at times almost synonymous with a certain kind of interviewing: one-on-one, biographical, long-form, recorded, and intended for the archive. 

In this series of events, we will explore other approaches to doing oral history, from using scuba diving to record the stories of underwater landscapes to creating chatbots to elicit oral histories and using AI to make sense of how interviews work.

Events will take placee on Thursday evenings (ET) from 6-7:30PM, and where possible each event will include a hands-on experience or interactive space to try out and reflect on these new approaches.

Event Info

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 6-7:30pm
Can AI Collect Oral Histories? Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity
ONLINE with Brett Halperin

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 6-7:30pm
Using AI to Analyze and Organize Oral History
ONLINE with Chris Pandza ('23)

Thursday, November 2, 2023, 6-7:30pm
History is not Past - Using Oral History for Policy Change
TBD in-person with Danita Mason-Hogans

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6-7:30pm
The land that sustains us is the land of the ancestors
ONLINE with Kristina Douglass

Spring 2023 | Oral History and Fiction: A Book Club

We’ll read novels that use oral history as inspiration, novels about the experience of doing oral history, and novels that take the form of speculative or imagined oral histories. Through reading and discussing these books we will think about oral history as a genre, the relationship between oral history and storytelling, and oral history as an imaginative practice. Join us!
Leeremos novelas inspiradas en la historia oral, novelas sobre la experiencia de hacer historia oral, y novelas en forma de historias orales especulativas o imaginarias. A través de la lectura y discusión de estos libros, reflexionaremos sobre la historia oral como género, la relación entre la historia oral y la narrativa, y sobre la historia oral como práctica imaginativa. ¡Únete a nuestro grupo!

*Each event will consist of 30m small-group facilitated conversations + 1hr long conversation with the author and an oral historian.
*Cada event consiste de 30 minutos (de 6-6:30 ET) de conversaciones facilitadas sobre los libros en grupos pequeños y una hora con el autor o autora (de 6:30-7:30 ET), dirigida por uno o más historiadores orales.

Event Info

Thursday, Feb 2, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
Lost Children Archive, a novel about doing oral history and documentary work:
Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Fanny Garcia and Florencia Ruiz Mendoza
*simultaneous Spanish/English interpretation provided to all participants.

6:00 p.m-7:30 p.m. 2 de febrero
Desierto Sonoro (Lost Children Archive), una novela sobre la historia oral y el trabajo documental
Valeria Luiselli en conversación con Fanny Garcia y Florencia Ruiz Mendoza
*Este evento será en inglés y español. Ofreceremos interpretación simultánea a todos los participantes.

Thursday, March 2, 6:00 - 7:45pm EST
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a work of speculative oral history.
M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Kae Bara Kratcha, Tamara Santibañez, and Taylor Thompson

Thursday, March 30, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
Libertie, a novel based on oral histories of Weeksville, Brooklyn. 
Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with Obden Mondesir

Stay tuned for more..!

Our local bookstore, Book Culture, is offering all of the books at a discount here, so you can add them to your holiday wishlists now!
Nuestra librería local, Book Culture, ofrece todos los libros con descuento aquí, para que los añadas a tus listas de deseos para estas fiestas.

Fall 2022 | Thursday Oral History Salon: Oral History & Documentary

Led by Sayre Quevedo, 2022-23 OHMA teaching artist, Fall 2022’s Thursday Oral History Salon introduces important conversations within and about oral history and documentary through a series of public lectures and discussions.

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
Online: Incarceration, oral history, documentary + ‘Suave’
with Maria Hinojosa and David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
Online: Oral History, Media, and Reconciliation
with Connie Walker presenting ‘Stolen: Surviving St. Michaels’

Thursday, November 3, 2022, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
In-person: Telling Stories from Earth
Oral History in the garden with Journei Manzayila Bimwala

Thursday, November 17, 2022, 6:00 - 7:30pm EST
In-person: Autobiography and narrative, telling and understanding our own stories
Sayre presents work at UnionDocs

This event series is supported in part by INCITE's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series endowment, which supports programming that embodies and honors the late Professor's commitment to improving methodological approaches that address concerns of vital cultural and social significance.

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.

FALL 2021

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
“Tell Me About That World” Speculative Archives and Black Feminist Listening Practices
Taylor Thompson

Thursday, October 21, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993, building a world from Oral History
Sarah Schulman

Thursday, October 28, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Making Meaning through Relationality in an Oral History Project: Amplifying Latino Immigrant Workers Voices in the Pandemic
María Islas-López, History Colorado, and Centro Humanitario

Saturday, November 13, 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
POSTPONED - Oral History and “the Keepers of Memory”: Knowledge of Past times in Cultures of Orality in India
Indira Chowdhury

Thursday, November 18, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
POSTPONED - Co-Documenting Queer Performances and Experiences in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Isabel Machado

Thursday, December 2, 2021, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
A Conversation with Tommy Orange

SPRING 2022

Thu, January 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Separated: Central American Families, Migration, and State Violence
Fanny Julissa García and Nara Milanich

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lessons in Relationship Building from a Participatory Oral History Project
Lynn Lewis

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Do the Dead Care About Releases?: Access in Columbia's Oral History Archive
Dr. Kimberly Springer

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Telling and Preserving Disabled Stories
Gracen Brilmyer, Alice Wong, and Liú Méi-Zhì Bransfield Chen

Thursday, March 24, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Co-Documenting Queer Performances and Experiences in Mexico
Isabel Machado

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Quilombola Women and Transformations in the Anti-Racist Struggle in Brazil
Mariléa de Almeida

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 | Oral History and Power

Oral histories are always created within the context of power relations, and oral historians think critically about the power dynamics that shape their work. Oral history processes can also be used to produce individual and collective power or to challenge oppressive power dynamics. In this public programming series, we will explore the interrelationships of oral history and power, from the use of oral history as part of community organizing to the complex negotiations of power within the field of oral history and within the oral history encounter.

FALL 2020

September 24 , 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
1 or 2 Things to Consider When Staging Oral Histories of Black and Brown Trauma
Nikki Yeboah

October 8, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Capturing Narratives of Displacement, Divestment, and Dehumanization
Sarita Daftary

November 5, 2020, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Empowering Youth Through Indigenous Stories
Sara Sinclair and Suzanne Methot

November 12, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies
Leanne Simpson

November 19, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
“The War Is Not A Bomber Jet Anymore”: Reencountering the Korean War through 
Aural History
Crystal Baik and Nodutdol

December 3, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
The NYC Trans Oral History Project and Rethinking Oral History Methodology
Michelle O’Brien

SPRING 2021

February 18, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM
Land Back! The Importance of Oral History in First Nation Land Claims Cases
Winona Wheeler

February 25, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM
Changing the Narrative on Gun Violence: Survivors Want You to ‘Sit Down and Listen’
Holly Werner-Thomas

March 11, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM
Documenting State Violence, Building Archives of Survival
Gabriel Solis

March 18, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM
Editing for the Mass Market: Tips and Tidbits from the Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project
Storm Garner

April 8, 2021, 6:10 PM 7:30 PM
Deaf NYC Spaces and Stories
Brian H. Greenwald and Brianna DiGiovanni

May 20, 2021, 6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Performing Black Queer History in Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books”
Joseph Plaster

FALL 2020

September 24 , 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
1 or 2 Things to Consider When Staging Oral Histories of Black and Brown Trauma
Nikki Yeboah

October 8, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Capturing Narratives of Displacement, Divestment, and Dehumanization
Sarita Daftary

November 5, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Empowering Youth Through Indigenous Stories
Sara Sinclair and Suzanne Methot

November 12, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies
Leanne Simpson

November 19, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
“The War Is Not A Bomber Jet Anymore”: Reencountering the Korean War through Aural History
Crystal Baik with Nodutdol

December 3, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
The NYC Trans Oral History Project and Rethinking Oral History Methodology
Michelle O’Brien

Fall 2019- Spring 2020 | Oral History and Storytelling

Oral history could not exist without storytelling. Oral histories are always full of stories, often stories that have been handed down, passed around, honed through performance. And as we seek to amplify oral histories, the storytelling arts become crucial tools in the oral historian’s toolbox. Yet academic oral history has often defined itself in contrast to storytelling and to oral traditions.

In this series, we will explore the relationships between oral history and storytelling. As a practice that values life experiences that cannot be contained in tidy stories, what can oral history offer in a moment when storytelling is ubiquitous in the public sphere? How can a focus on storytelling illuminate the performative, creative, social, and cultural aspects of oral history that are not always prioritized in its practice?

FALL 2019

September 12, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Europe according to Auschwitz: Experiments from the Laboratory of Reportage
Marek Miller, Jacek Wasilewski, Michał Bukojemski

September 19, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Newest Americans: Stories from the Global City
Tim Raphael

September 26, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Oral History and Indigenous Peoples: Rethinking Oral History, Methods, Politics and Theories
Dr Nēpia Mahuika

October 3, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Finding Fathers: A Cautionary Tale for Oral Historians
Emma Courtland

October 24, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Standing With Sky Woman: A conversation on cultural fluency
Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller (Kanien:keha’ka/Mohawk)

November 7, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
"Necessary as Water": Queer Black Ceremony and the Depth of Listening
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

SPRING 2020 (more events to come)

February 6, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Art, Oral History, and New Approaches to Telling the “Story” of Institutionalization in Pennsylvania
Nicki Pombier Berger, Lisa Sonneborn

February 13, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
The Stories That Rise
Rachel Falcone, Storyline

March 5, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Uncertain Journeys
Carlin Liu Zia

POSTPONED: March 26, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
“The War Is Not A Bomber Jet Anymore”: Reencountering the Korean War through Aural History
Crystal Mun-hye Baik

April 2, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Oral history as told by AI
Stephanie Dinkins

POSTPONED: April 9, 2020, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Deaf NYC Spaces and Stories
Brian H. Greenwald, Jean Lindquist Bergey

April 23, 2020, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
THE STORIES WE TELL IMPACT THE ACTION WE TAKE: Our Histories, Our Illnesses, Our Futures
Theodore (Ted) Kerr

Fall 2018- Spring 2019 | Oral History and the Future: Archives and Embodied Memory

Oral history is a conversation about the past that takes place in the present and is oriented towards the future. How is this future orientation made real? 

Oral history as a research practice, particularly in the United States, has been defined by a focus on recording and archiving in institutional repositories. But people can be archives too, and oral history-telling practices more broadly often depend on embodied memory, on person-to-person transmission. And because people have been formally recording and archiving oral histories for over seventy years, we are now living in the futures imagined by earlier generations of oral historians. How do these voices from the past function in our present/their future? Looking at examples from digital archiving to indigenous oral history practices, in this series we will examine how the various ways that oral history is projected into the future work, and how they shape our practices as oral historians.

SPRING 2019

February 21, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Dancing with THE MISSING GENERATION: centering trans oral histories
Sean Dorsey

February 28, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
"The Sounds of Blackness: Space and Sound Preservation as Oral History Advocacy"
Nishani Frazier

March 7, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
The Mountain with Two Wives: Landscape and Embodied Memory in Kathmandu
Ellen Coon

March 14, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Say It Forward: Art and Social Justice
Voice of Witness

April 4, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Oral History and Archives: Voice, Storytelling, and Narrative in Historical Research
Samuel J. Redman

April 11, 2019, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
‘Chasing Our Mob in the Archives’: the restorative process of reclaiming, reconnecting, re-storying, and reframing family and cultural materials in the archives
Lorina Barker

FALL 2018

September 13, 2018, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Pan Dulce: Breaking Bread with the Past
Maria Cotera

October 4, 2018, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
The Uses of Narrative in Organizing for Social Justice
Sujatha Fernandes

October 18, 2018, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Confessions of an Accidental Oral Historian, Archivist, and Podcaster
Eric Marcus

November 1, 2018, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Accelerating Change: Oral History, Innovation, and Impact
Doug Boyd

November 29, 2018, 6:10 - 7:30 PM
Words Transmitted; Worlds Apart
Fernanda Espinosa

Spring 2018 | Oral History and the Arts

Oral history is an art. The practice of oral history is creative -- in interviews we make narratives together with our interviewees, imagining worlds, telling stories, creating characters. Oral history can also be used to document the arts, to tell the stories of painters and dancers and actors and writers and the worlds they live in. And the arts are a powerful means to amplify and interpret oral histories, transforming them into literary narratives, building theater or music or dance performances from them, using them to create documentaries. This year, we will explore all of these many intersections of oral history and the arts, asking what unique contributions an oral history approach can make to artistic practice, and how oral history can help us to think about art and its role in the world.

January 25, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Jennifer Egan: The Novelist as Oral Historian
Jennifer Egan

February 1, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Writing and Listening for the Intersubjective Encounter
Nyssa Chow

February 15, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
The Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project: An Oral and Art History Mash-up
Sara Sinclair and Mary Marshall Clark

March 8, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
How to Listen
Daniel Alarcón

March 29, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Performing Listening in the Context of Memorial Audio Walks
Luis Sotelo

April 5, 2018, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Push Play
Nicki Pombier Berger and Liza Zapol

Fall 2017 | Oral History and the Arts

Oral history is an art. The practice of oral history is creative -- in interviews we make narratives together with our interviewees, imagining worlds, telling stories, creating characters. Oral history can also be used to document the arts, to tell the stories of painters and dancers and actors and writers and the worlds they live in. And the arts are a powerful means to amplify and interpret oral histories, transforming them into literary narratives, building theater or music or dance performances from them, using them to create documentaries. This year, we will explore all of these many intersections of oral history and the arts, asking what unique contributions an oral history approach can make to artistic practice, and how oral history can help us to think about art and its role in the world.

September 14, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Oral History As Engaged Community Listening, Ceremonial Practice and Performative Art
Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz

September 21, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Interviewing artists: intersubjectivity and visuality
Luisa Passerini

October 19, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
From Field to Performance: Adapting Oral History and Ethnographic Field Research for the Stage
E. Patrick Johnson

October 26, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
A History of Echoes-Part 1: Memory and Militant Sound Investigations
Robert Sember

November 2, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
A History of Echoes-Part 2: Sound of Trans Freedom
Michael Roberson

December 7, 2017, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
"Beyond words": oral tradition and the music of Julia Wolfe
Julia Wolfe

Spring 2017 | Oral History and the Social Sciences

Oral history is a practice with deep roots in the archive and in the discipline of history, where oral history is a unique and valuable genre of primary source. But what happens when we treat oral histories as data for sociological, anthropological or geographic research? Or use the tools of the social sciences to study oral history as a social practice? Is it possible, or desirable, to generalize from the particular and complex narratives of the oral history interview? In this series we will explore the tensions and possibilities at the interdisciplinary seams of oral history and the social sciences.

January 19, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
History-Making, Peoplehood, and the Right to the City
Amy Starecheski 

February 9, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
The Summer for Respect: Student Activists, Walmart Workers, and the Future of the American Labor Movement
Adam Reich

February 23, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
How the Community Research Group Discovered Situation Analysis and What We Did About It
Mindy Fullilove

March 9, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Indigenous Oral Histories, Blurring Boundaries in Academia
Winona Wheeler

March 23, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Devalued Subjectivities: Disciplines, Voices and Publics
Leslie Robertson

April 6, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Becoming an Organizer: Narrative, Identity and Social Action
Terrell Frazier

Fall 2016 | Oral History and the City

What can oral histories tell us about life at the scale of the city? About how people make their homes in neighborhoods, or think of themselves as urban citizens? How can the practice of oral history be used as an intervention in urban life? Taking New York City as a lab, this series will explore oral history in and of the city.

September 22, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Splicing into an Existing Narrative: Living Los Sures and Local Co-Creation
Christopher Allen

September 29, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
DW Gibson

October 6, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Large-scale and Local: Engaging New York Public Library Communities in the Collection Process
Alexandra Kelly

October 20, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Intersection | Prospect Heights: Dialogue in the Supermarket
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

November 10, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
More Than a Riot: Listening to the Unheard Voices of Crown Heights
Zaheer Ali

December 1, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Below the Grid: Decolonizing the Silences, Fragments, and Shadows of Manhattan
John Kuo Wei Tchen

Spring 2016 | Oral History and Public Dialogue

February 4, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Creating the Urban Canvas: Land Art on a Brooklyn Street Corner
Laura Barnett and Alfred Evans

February 18, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Performance into Policy: Doing Justice by Oral Histories of Place and Displacement
Della Pollock and Hudson Vaughan

March 3, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Reckoning with 100 Years of Violence on the US/Mexico Border: Methods for Developing a Public Dialogue
Monica Muñoz Martinez

March 24, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Paul Ortiz

April 14, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Who Gets to Tell the Story?: A Fresh Approach to Collaborating with Activists to Create Archives
Wesley Hogan

April 21, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Big Prisons, Small Towns: Stories from the Prison Public Memory Project
Tracy Huling, Quintin Cross, and Brian Buckley

Fall 2015 | Oral History and Public Dialogue

September 24, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Roots and Fruits of Activism in Washington Heights and New York City
Laura Altschuler, Sixto Medina, and Rob Snyder

October 1, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping and Displacement in San Francisco
Manissa Maharawal

October 8, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History and Cross-Cultural Dialogues: Building Bridges with Artistic Projects
Judith Sloan

October 22, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
When Truth Is Justice: Narratives of Black Women and Sexual Assault Across Generations
Farah Tanis

November 12, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
This Muslim American Life
Moustafa Bayoumi

December 3, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
How You Sing Your Song: Miguel Zenón's Oral History-Based Music
Miguel Zenón with Erica Wrightson

Spring 2015 | Oral History, Health and Medicine

February 5, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
After Depression: Reflections on Oral and Written Personal Narrative as Archive of Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich

February 26, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Stories of Environmental Danger: A Collective Approach
Christopher Sellers

March 5, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Bodies, Embodiment, and the Experience of Passion: What Tango Dancers Can Teach Us
Kathy Davis

March 12, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History with Vulnerable Populations: The Schizophrenia Oral History Project
Lynda Crane and Tracy McDonough

March 26, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Perpetual Handmaidens: Creating Knowledge in the Shadows
Ronald Doel

April 2, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Stories I Skipped: Narratives of Care, Narratives of War
Alessandro Portelli

April 16, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Listening With the Whole Body in Mind Feminist Oral History Project
Ynestra King

April 30, 2015, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Digital Storytelling as Narrative Shock: New Views on Young Parenting Latinas, Migration, and Family
Aline Gubrium and Elizabeth L. Krause

Fall 2014 | Oral History, Health and Medicine

September 11, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History Meets Dementia: A Staged Reading of the Play Timothy and Mary
Sam Robson

September 18, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Seeking Witness: Voice of Witness and Building an Oral History Network
Luke Gerwe

October 2, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
A Radical Archive of Be(long)ing
Teiji Okamoto

October 16, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Narrative Humility: Medical Listening and Oral History
Sayantani DasGupta

November 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Can the Oral Historian Speak
Brian Purnell

November 13, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History and Intellectual Disability: Navigating Authority, Authorship, and Advocacy
Nicki Berger

Fall 2013 - Spring 2014

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

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

October 24, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM:
From Storytelling to Storyweaving: Muriel Miguel, A Retrospective
Muriel Miguel, Spiderwoman Theater

November 7, 2013, 6:30 -8:30 PM:
High Rise Stories
Audrey Petty, Voice of Witness

November 21, 2013 6:30-8:30
The Eros of Oral History
Jeff Friedman, Dancer, Choreographer and Professor of Dance Studies

February 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Listening to Central Park North: Making Oral Histories Tangible
Sewon Chung, New Media Artist and Oral Historian; OHMA alum

February 20, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Monastic Silence and a Visual Dialogue
Abbie Reese, Author

March 6, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Authority in Practice in Project-Based Research
Steven High, Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling

March 27, 2014, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
De-centering Authority: Building a Collaborative Oral History of Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn
Sady Sullivan, Brooklyn Historical Society

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
Catherine Charlebois, Montreal History Center

Fall 2013 - Spring 2014

September 18, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence
Voice of Witness

October 4, 2012 7:00 - 9:00 PM,
“We’d Rather Not Be on the Rolls of Relief”: Folk Music as/and Oral History: Civic Engagement Through Songs, Documentary Photographs, and Voices from the Depression and New Deal
Michael Frisch and the 198 String Band

October 18, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Learning From the Old School: Oral History and Historical Production in New York City's Squatting Communities
Amy Starecheski

November 1, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Surfacing Solutions: Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence
Alisa del Tufo

November 15, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Interviewing Interviewers about Interviewing: The Epistemology of Oral History
Andrea Dixon

December 6, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The Newtown Creek Community Health and Harms Narrative Project: Oral History and Public Health
Suzanne Snider

January 31, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Surfacing Solutions: Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence
Alisa del Tufo

February 14, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Search, Explore, Connect: Enhancing Access to Oral History
Doug Boyd

February 21, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Everybody is a Stranger When They First Arrive: Refugees’ Experiences in America.
Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman, Voice of Witness

March 14, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Uncovering Hidden Histories: The Making of Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente!
Lillian Jiménez

April 11, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Both Our Voices: A Feminist Relational Approach to Life History Narratives of Previously Juvenile Justice Involved LGBTQ Young Adults
Sarah Mountz

April 25, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Movement Creates Museum: the Activist Beginnings of Weeksville Heritage Center
Jennifer Scott