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November 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
At this colloquium, Jessie English will present on the New Roots Latino Oral History Project, co-sponsored by SOHP. Please come out, bring your lunch, and enjoy a conversation about Jessie's work on this project.
Find out more »December 2014
Lunchtime Colloquium
The SOHP's final fall colloquium will be a discussion of Sherna Berger Gluck's recent article, "Reflecting on the Quantum Leap: Promises and Perils of Oral History on the Web," published in The Oral History Review 2014, Vol 41, No. 2. For more information please email field scholar Evan Faulkenbury.
Find out more »February 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium: Amy Evans
"Agnes," by Amy C. Evans, 2014 Join us for this brown bag lunchtime colloquium with Amy Evans, who will be discussing her work as an artist and documentarian.
Find out more »March 2015
April 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
Featuring Susan Davis of Better Broadcasts; learn more about her here.
Find out more »September 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our monthly brown bag lunchtime discussion! This colloquium will feature our field scholars, Evan Faulkenbury, Taylor Livingston, and Kimber Thomas, who will be speaking about their recent research and soliciting feedback.
Find out more »October 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our monthly brown bag lunchtime discussion! Led by field scholar Evan Faulkenbury, we'll discuss the similarities and differences between oral history and ethnography. The following readings are a helpful intro to our topic, but are not required to attend: David Cline, "Defining Oral History: Working Definitions" Donald Ritchie, "An Oral History of Our Time," from Doing Oral History Alessandro Portelli, "What Makes Oral History Different," from The Oral History Reader Tim Lloyd, "On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and…
Find out more »November 2015
Lunchtime Colloquium
For our next SOHP lunchtime brown bag colloquium we will discuss an article from a recent issue of Oral History Review: Alexander Freund, "Under Storytelling's Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age." It's all about the form of storytelling and how it is super popular right now - perhaps to the detriment to the field of oral history. As SOHP thinks about its future making our collections more accessible to the general public and academic audiences, his ideas should provoke some thought…
Find out more »February 2016
Lunchtime Colloquium: Ashley D. Farmer
Join us for our first brown-bag lunchtime colloquium of the Spring 2016 semester. Our guest will be Dr. Ashley D. Farmer, a postdoc in Duke University's Department of History and soon-to-be Assistant Professor in History and African American Studies at Boston University. She is coming to share about her work using oral history on Black Power and black women's movements. You can read more about her on her personal website: www.ashleydfarmer.com. She also blogs regularly for the African American Intellectual History Society: www.aaihs.org
Find out more »April 2016
Lunchtime Colloquium
Join us for our next brownbag lunchtime colloquium! Ryan Shaw, SILS professor and SOHP Faculty Affiliate, will speak about his research on oral history accessibility and demo some transcription and audio synchronization interfaces he is currently testing. You can read more about this work here.
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