Oral historian and urban planner Ambar Wortham leads a sliding scale 3-hour interactive workshop on: the importance of preserving your own story and ensuring your life experiences are remembered for generations to come. Together, we will learn how self-preservation is as vital as the care you offer others, techniques to reflect on and organize […]
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An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: “E” is for Ethics
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. The next two entries in the OHAC A-to-Z focus on what happens behind-the-scenes in oral history methodology and archival […]
Oral History | OHMA’s spring 2024 workshop series announced
Our colleagues in the Oral History Master’s Program (OHMA) have an exciting line-up of talks and workshops for spring semester. 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 year-long series of events, are exploring […]
An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia | A is for…the Addicts Who Survived Collection by David Courtwright
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. Collection title: Addicts Who Survived oral history collection, 1978-1984 Interview contents: Narrators typically discuss their family history, their introduction […]
Oral history | Congratulations to the 2021 Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral Winner!
From our colleagues in the instructional arm of the Columbia Center for Oral History, the Oral History Master’s Program (OHMA)… After an incredibly challenging period in which fieldwork was disrupted, many of us suffered losses, and everyone experienced upheaval, the 2021 Brodsky Prize Committee (Peter Bearman, Amy Starecheski, and Carlin Liu Zia) was particularly impressed […]