Colleagues in the Columbia Center for Oral History Research welcome applications for the biannual 2025 Oral History Summer Institute. This year’s theme is Speaking Up for Democracy: Oral History and Political Change. The Summer Institute convenes for five days (July 14–18) with an additional workshop on hands-on techniques and implementation on Saturday, July 19, 2025. […]
Category: Oral History
Researcher Profile |
We see them every day, handing them a key as they walk in each morning, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often they are hunkered down over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives better than anybody here. We await the longer scholarly projects […]
Oral History Events | OHMA announces fall series on ReMemory: Experiments in Listening, Authorship and Knowledge-Keeping
From our colleagues in the Oral History Master’s Program… “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” – Toni Morrison “What the colonial process does, or any process of domination, is [enact] the erasure of the memory of the subjugated. You erase the memory of who they are, the memories […]
Event | Hearing Cuban Voices in a Time of Crisis
Date: Tuesday, 17 September 2024 Time: 6pm – 8pm Hosted by the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies. Please note that this panel will take place in 9100 Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center. To register, email bildner@gc.cuny.edu. Once registration is full, please tune in to the panel via this Zoom link on the day […]
An A-to-Z of Oral History | G is for (40% oral history collection on) gun violence in America, 2017-2020
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia is a monthly posting featuring the people, events, and organizations in the Oral History Archive at Columbia’s collections, as well as behind-the-scenes info about oral history methodology. * This post is adapted from the catalog record description written by David Olson, OHAC archivist. Collection title: Forty […]