The Oral History Master of Arts Program is pleased to announce its 2015-2016 workshop series,

Oral History and Public Dialogue 

The oral history interview is paradoxical: often conducted in private as an intimate dyadic encounter, but with a broad contemporary and future audience in mind. In this series, we will present innovative projects that use oral history to spark public dialogue, exploring the processes through which these one-on-one conversations are mobilized in the public sphere.

All events are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Events include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, February 4, 2016
Creating the Urban Canvas: Land Art on a Brooklyn Street Corner
Laura Barnett and Alfred Evans

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6- 8 PM
Performance into Policy: Doing justice by oral histories of place and displacement
Della Pollock and Hudson Vaughan

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

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

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

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

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Sponsors: This series is part of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research (CCOHR) and the Oral History Master of Arts Program (OHMA). Support from the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) is provided for programming that embodies late Professor Paul Lazarsfeld’s commitment to improving methodological approaches that address concerns of vital cultural and social significance.

For more information, please email Amy Starecheski, Associate Director of OHMA, at aas39(at)columbia.edu.