Columbia University Oral History

The Oral History MA Program at Columbia University endorses the declaration by the American Association of University Professors of Barnard and Columbia. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bddkze4z

Are you an organization/individual looking to collaborate with oral history students? We invite you to participate in our fieldwork partners and internship programs. Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/yd5bpfck

Check out this workshop series happening on three dates 📅!! 7/31: Narrator Experience & Storytelling Ethics 8/14: Exploring the Interview Process 8/28: Building Narrative Editing Skills

💡Have an idea for a compelling public initiative? This summer, we're granting over $200K to artists, activists, journalists, organizers, scholars, community leaders, and others across America and the world. 💸 Get your dream project funded. More: bit.ly/3W1ERZF

Today we’re thrilled to launch the Elders Project, which captures the stories of 200+ Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine, and queer elders from across America. Explore: bit.ly/3wDWAMM

The Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project, which interviewed 200+ elders across America, launches with a party. Food, drinks, music, art, stories, and more. Sunday the 19th at @brooklynhistory. 5 PM. You're invited! Register here: bit.ly/4bzmWyq

<Voices from Wupatki> are the voices of Hopi, Navajo-Diné & Zuni people reflecting on their connection to this site of knowledge, to their ancestors, & their #cosmovision. Come check out Florencia's creative curation of these voices! RSVP: tinyurl.com/33z3w5mn

2024 Exhibition <Our Inheritance> Florencia is curating <Voices from Wupatki>, taking visitors into a journey back in time to the 13th c. & westwards to the deserts of Arizona where the Wupatki pueblos have been standing there for 800 hundreds. RSVP: tinyurl.com/33z3w5mn

2024 Exhibition <Our Inheritance> Olivia is curating <Chef's Fable>, an oral history dinner with her my father and career chef, Sergio Hurtado, via a menu imbued with the places and people that have inspired his life’s love of cooking. Waitlist: tinyurl.com/5w572w57

2024 Exhibition <Our Inheritance> Maya is organizing and moderating a webinar, "Fighting for Democracy: Reflections on the Israeli Democracy Protest Movement from the Post-October 7 World." Learn how civilians can save their democracies. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/fighting-for…

2024 Exhibitions <Our Inheritance> Renka is hosting <NYC Meet-Up: What Fashioned You?> This exhibition showcases diverse fashion narratives through multimedia presentations including websites and animations. 4/26 6:20pm @ 151 W 30th St, NY RSVP: tinyurl.com/bdfbned8

📢ANNOUNCING 2024 STUDENT EXHIBITION🌳 #Oralhistory weaves connections between generations/places/people. In this year's curations, students explore the place of oral history in diasporas, families, social movements, kitchens, gardens, and nations. tinyurl.com/yc24wd46

2024 Exhibitions <Our Inheritance> Clarissa is hosting <Hearing Roots: Plant Oral Histories> 🌱 Visit a community garden and listen to plant knowledge keepers share narratives from their plant relations. 🗓️ 4/19 3pm @ 321 W 126th St, NY RSVP: tinyurl.com/5ck7juma

Another season of student exhibitions 🧡 what kinds of questions are you asking in oral history curation? What excites you in oral history curation? Stay tuned...👀

What is applied oral history? It's an approach that uses oral history to support movement-building and transformative social change. Learn more from @iamfannygarcia through the lens of her project documenting family separation at the US-Mexico border. voiceofwitness.org/applied-oral-h…

Tune into our virtual event on 4/17 with @country_queers, an oral history project documenting rural & small-town LGBTQIA+ experiences. Rae Garringer created this multimedia project out of frustration with the lack of accessible rural queer stories. eventbrite.com/e/oral-history…

Getting ready for Hess Week with Paul Ortiz. 4 days, 8 events, 25 speakers. Academic Freedom. Crisis of Democracy. Oral History. Movement Solidarity. Urgent conversations for our times. April 1-4. Program libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe2023/hess… @BCThinkers @BklynCollege411

Our program director Amy Starecheski will be speaking on the public uses of oral history 🎙️ Join us in-person at Brooklyn College library or Youtube on 4/2 🧡

📣The Oral History Review has a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to Oral History and Disability. The deadline is March 31, 2024 📣 To submit your articles & learn more, use the OHR submission portal: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ohr

Peter Baker's story drawing on today's @INCITE_Columbia release on the ACA from the Obama Presidency Oral History project nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/…