Learning opportunity | 2025 Oral History Summer Institute

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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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